Kathleen @ 105

I like Mukasey’s tone, does that mean anything?

He sounds independent, which I like. The funny part earlier is when they asked him if he would be prepared to resign if the WH went ahead with something that he advised was wrong, and he said yes. That should come up on about day 2.

I don’t think he is aware of all of the dirt that’s been going on though, since he was unfamiliar with the fact that security clearance was denied to the OAG?ORG?, whatever it was, by the WH when they were attempting to investigate. I think his eyebrows went up, and he looked a little surprised. I think it was Durbin who was questioning him.

My dog, LS tell me yer joking here . . . he’s an overt GOP rethug, with history to prove it, and the dem’s are laying down for him, proving THEY are once again, the party of the 1% . .

And yer saying Mukasey ’sounds’ independant’? He’s as independant as Shilary will ‘end the war’ as spoken to MA’s finest daughters of Teh Eleanor . . .

Jeebus the progressive movement don’t stand a chance . . .

“Will NO one rid me of these . . . ” (rollseyes in disbelief)

. . .
So Bush would start WWIII if Iran were to get nukes?

He’s gonna start WW3 REGARDLESS of any truths, now or in the future.

Our best bets to STOP this madman are Putin, and The Chinese.

Irony becomes reality. And our best friend.

The difference between Abu and Mukasey is that Mukasey is not a babbling hack but both believe in trashing the Constitution in the service of the President. The Democrats are snookering themselves again and caving to a President with a 24% approval rating. Even jellyfish are incensed at their spinelessness.

Hugh, and others . . . the dem’s are NOT caving!!!

They are playing the hand they hold, and the hand they WANT to play.

That hand, sadly, is NOT the one we hired them to run with.

It’s 1% bought, top to bottom, regardless of party affiliation.

When the purported progressive blogosphere accepts that, and begins to work to CHANGE that, then we the sheeple can have a modicum of hope (bless Act Blue/Moveon).

But Hugh, as long as you, and others who are influential in the blogs, continue to paint the dem’s as spineless, you do the progressive’s a great disservice.

The dem’s are NOT spineless, they are running their game for big biz and the war machine, and it’s pretty phookin obvious, by now.

To everyone. Except the blind or the 1% themselves.

Holy Jumpin’ Jeebus -
radiofreewill @ 66

A: I don’t know enough about water-boarding to know if it’s coercive, or not, but certainly coerced evidence is no good.

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These people are beyond fucking belief. “…doesn’t know if it’s coercive”. Astounding.

Obviously the man isn’t a moron, so that means he has to be a liar who has some specific reason for not saying what we all know — water-boarding simulates drowning, so a person thinks they’re gonna die.

“During the debate itself, Romney also took heat for not mentioning the need for congressional authorization, although the rebuke came from a lonely voice out of the GOP’s isolationist past. “You’re not allowed to go to war without a declaration of war,” said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. Paul declared flatly that the Constitution was clear and that Romney’s talk about consulting attorneys was “baffling.” He also maintained that “the thought that the Iranians could pose an imminent attack on the United States is preposterous.” When Giuliani shot back that Sept. 11 had been such an attack, Paul interrupted him. “That was no country,” snapped Paul. “That was 19 thugs. It has nothing to do with a country.”

Apparently Mitt is out of his depth in a wading pool.

someone should ask him outright..

“If the president demands that you authorize torture, the way torture is defined pursuant to the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and other multilateral treaties to which this country is a signatory, what will you do? If pressured, would you resign?”

In fact.. they should ask him outright, if he’s asked by shrub to countenance any form of illegality (each forms to be laid out clearly to him in the question), would he resign

My ideal wouldn’t be resignation, but an AG who would go directly to Congress and tell them what’s happening and then go to the press and announce it to them.

Sunlight is a great disinfectant!

This story is so disingenuous, that it’s unreal. I was fired from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in March 2006 for advocating for worker rights (Bigtime illegal work practices against an unskilled worker group which was over-representative of “diversity” in the workplace). I attended anti-union management meetings that were mandatory for all administrative staff. I wrote Paul Levy on his blog and responded to him elsewhere to make sure that he knew what had happened since it appears that his information is highly filtered as it goes up the ranks and gets to him via his senior administrators.

I shopped the Boston Globe and the SEIU to see if either was interested in looking at the evidence I had of those issues and other patient issues (not reporting infant deaths and letting infant remains rot in the morgue for years while the hospital tried to find a funeral home to mass bury them under the radar.) Paul never responded to my comment, and he never posted it on his blog.

A month or so ago I met with Dana Simon and another SEIU rep and showed them all of the evidence. I allowed them to make copies of whatever they wanted.

In every case, after the parties were through with me, my calls weren’t returned.

I am homeless, destitute, and having been balckliasted, cannot find any work or any shelter. I have sold everything I own that is sale-able. Paul Levy knows that I was wrongfully discharged – I appealed to his office of business compliance attorney who verified that all of my claims were accurate but found “no evidence of retaliation.”

Dana Simon knows. The SEIU knows.

I looked everywhere for work, but one cannot compete when one has been thoroughly defamed, blacklisted and threatened.

Tula Connell knows.

Where has the progressive “community” been?

Selise gave me homeless shelter numbers for her city – not where I live. Thanks, Selise.

Another “helper” from FDL referred me to someone who stole my cats. Thanks, William and Colleen.

RevDeb asked all kinds of questions and then informed me that she didn’t know of anyone who could help me. Thanks. But as I have already been defrauded by a priest, no surprise there, and probably to my advatage not to be “helped.”

So now I exist on the street.

Having advocated for healthcare workers and patients, I so appreciate your newfound insight.

Had you ever bothered to read my blog, I have written over and over and over again about this and related issues around professional nursing, management and worker issues and healthcare reform.

But nurses are entirely disposable – as you have proved here.

What in the hell are you thinking?

It’s becoming increasingly obvious. I am an out of touch Democrat. I need to become more conservative.

What we all need is to become absolutely, fire-breathing revolutionaries. The current junta carried out a revolution which has basically nullified the two party system, neutered the separation of powers and the constitution, and turned us into a third world banana republic with court decisions evident in advance just by looking at the issues at bar.

Time to stop playing nicely. Our representatives have, by and large, been co-opted and are bought and paid for.

Time for other means, I do believe.

(Does this comment qualify as not playing nicely in the sandbox?)