Padilla, preventive detention, recreational hysteria concerning things? This guy is as bad a sGonzo – just hasn’t been caught yet.

Shows how the demos are in such tight co-operation with bush. They need a surprise” to derail this? Sheeeeeesssssh!

General strike anyone? It’s probably too late for 11/6, but really, don’t you think we could pull off a mass strike? Generate some outrage. Create a STIR???

That ma’am, could be construed to be calling for revolution, or worse, anarchy . . . ;-)

Hi, AT&T? Yeh, it’s me. Larue. Fuck you AND the administration you profited from.

*blinks*

Reality has SO many constructs . . . ;-)

PS: Mz. Doty . . . I gather from what I’ve read you are waging battle for health . . . you have my best thoughts for the BEST of health.

As do all who need good thoughts. My wife survived a full hyst, and a 20# benign tumor . . . every day is a new day . . . and a great one.

*SMILE*

Mukasey upheld the Presidents declared power to seize and detain an American citizen indefinitely, saying the AUMF gave the president such power.

My question.. Did Di Fi know this before she voted Mukasey out of committee?

Huh? Sci Fi voted NO on his confirmation, and as Head Of Committee (I think?) THEN MOVED TO FORWARD THE SELECTIONS!!!

What am I missing? And I grant, I could be missing a lot, but I GOT a message from SciFi about this, and I posted her response in a thread either this morning or late last night . . .

ES, thanks for straightening this out for me . . . I know I must be confusing something like apples and oranges . . . you are always on yer game . . .

One thing’s for sure. I’m not going to depend on the Democrats to get us out of this mess. Yikes. And Hillary is the best we can do?

NO DAMMIT!!!

Shilary is NOT the best we can do!!

Don’t cave hoss, do NOT give in.

We can do MUCH better.

We CAN have a progressive President, AND a slaughter of the ReThugs in Senate and House, too!!

Don’t let anyone in sheeple’s clothing tell you any different.

Shilary will sell us all down the river . . . she is NO Geraldine Ferraro!!!

Neither is Pelosi, Sci-Fi or Boxer, for that matter.

They used the gender card for our political hearts, and now they are abusing our political love.

They are Rethugs Of The 1%, WE can do better, with our hearts and souls. We can. Someone point me to some women candidates that ARE progressive, in CA . . . that I can vote for . . .

In the meantime I WON’T fall for the faux dem femme vote. I just won’t, based on the FEMME BETRAYAL!

Women should be in ARMS about the trust they placed in these politicians, and how they have abused that trust.

Mothers, sisters, wives . . . these women pols have sent your men and sons and brothers and sisters and lovers to hell to die, for profit.

How in HELL could you continue to support them? How?

My wife doesn’t. She hates them. She’s just happy that women pols are now being held to light for their positions and policies, not their vagina’s.

My wife’s tough. And I’m a lucky man.

*G*

. . .
That was really dumb. Why the obsession? Kids being blown to bits in the M.E., and he has to focus on porn? Meanwhile, W is talking about WWIII, nukular annihilation, insisting on playing the dangerous game of all time. That has me really outraged.

Where ya BEEN for 7 years or more of the ENHANCED Contract On America?

Where ya BEEN since ‘94?

Yer just NOW getting outraged?

WELCOME!

If folks were thinking Mukasey was going to be a “breath of fresh air” at DOJ, think again.

While not a moronic toady like Fredo, Mukasey’s been drinking this Admin’s Kool-Aid for a long time.

And of course, as our Democratic Senators close their eyes and pretend otherwise, we get the same old same old.

They are NOT closing their eyes, they do this eyes wide open, and with full complicity.

WAKE UP!!!!!!!

We know the enemy is us, our own dem’s. They are the enemy as much as the rest of them.

Get OVER that, and think progressive. Hold THEIR feet to OUR fires!

Damn I hate having to repeat myself.

And Mz. Hamsher, good post and nicely phrased. MewKasey is just another Rethug Robot for the Empire . . . good to see FDL Big Dog’s hammering the progressive points . . . THEIR feet, to OUR fires!

On Muskasey: People that have stepped up in front of him say he is all business, but as reported he does lean right on the detainee/war on terror issues. He is a modern-day Jewish liberal: tough on islamo-fanactics, overly tough at times, but fair-minded and left of center on civil rights, domestic issues and consumer rights.

So supporting the idea that the president can order the indefinite detention of American citizens on ’secret’ charges with no access is considered a ‘left-of-center’ civil rights position now?

What’s the right-of-center position then? “Kill everyone now”?

Nice to know Di Fi and the nominee are so very concerned with American Citizens being rendered and tortured for years.. when they both cannot even pronounce Padilla correctly after all these years.

At one time Padilla was reportedly insisting to his lawyer, I believe, that his name should be pronounced “Pa-DILL-a,” rather than the usual Spanish way. Only near the actual court date —after he had had a lot of contact with the lawyers— was the pronunciation re-corrected to what most had assumed.

It occured to me that that could have been a sign of how badly and in what ways he was being treated. There was an Italian kid in my elementary school with a “gl” in his name. Certain people, some of them adults, took undisguised glee in hitting that g as hard as possible.

now here is Schumer:
Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from Mukasey’s home state of New York, said he already had heard the answer he wanted in a private meeting with Mukasey a day earlier. Schumer said he asked the nominee, “Will you have the courage to look squarely into the eyes of the president of the United States and tell him ‘no,’ if that is your best legal and ethical judgment?”
Mukasey, Schumer said, replied: “Absolutely. That is what I am there for.”
What Schumer should have said is ” Will you say no to David Addington?”