Bay State Librul @ 109

On Pakistan,

The United States ”does not support extraconstitutional measures,” Rice said in an interview with CNN from Turkey, where she was participating in a conference with Iraq’s neighbors.

Extra-fucking-constitutional?
Dr. Rice, what is torture and immunity for
Blackwater and the Telecoms?

When they say it isn’t about money, it’s about money.

When they say it isn’t about sex, it’s about sex.

When they say they don’t do extra-constitutional, they really do extra-constitutional.

The very fact that phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ came out of her mouth was because it had been on her mind!

Even while Musharraf is citing the War on Terra and Abraham Lincoln?

Ed*ward,

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She shouldn’t talk about how ‘the country failed them [the vets]’, she should say how the Conservative Bush Republicans failed them and that’s why it’s time for Progressive Democrats to run things.

Huckabee on PBS, says there is a law higher than all our laws…it is in our hearts, and it tells us what is right and what is wrong.

Ain’t that great??? So, Huckabee lives by a law that is above all laws. Yeah, that’s the ticket. That also explains Blackwater and W and, and…

What if that ‘law higher than all our laws’ tell us to obey the Rule of Law?

Proclamation of Emergency declared by Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday:

“WHEREAS …

2. I hereby order and proclaim that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shall remain in abeyance. …”

Doesn’t take much imagination to substitute “U.S.” for “Pakistan” in the foregoing. Would we rebel were Bu’ush to do this to us?

There really isn’t much difference between this and Dubya declaring there’s a Global War on Terror and as such he as CiC can do anything he wants.

Dictators don’t need words, they only use words as decorations.

On Pakistan,

The United States ”does not support extraconstitutional measures,” Rice said in an interview with CNN from Turkey, where she was participating in a conference with Iraq’s neighbors.

Extra-fucking-constitutional?
Dr. Rice, what is torture and immunity for
Blackwater and the Telecoms?

When they say it isn’t about money, it’s about money.

When they say it isn’t about sex, it’s about sex.

When they say they don’t do extra-constitutional, they really do extra-constitutional.

The very fact that phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ came out of her mouth was because it had been on her mind!

And that’s just ONE area of his douche-baggery.
Plenty more to discover there!

EPU’ed so I will park it here:

I have to say that I found this latest betrayal by the Democratic Party really disheartening. If it isn’t Reid and Pelosi, it’s Feinstein and Schumer. A President with job approval ratings in the 20s and they can’t stand up to him or for us on anything. It is like they frame issues to make themselves look as weak as possible.

Take the Mukasey nomination. Leahy said he wouldn’t bring up any nomination until the Administration coughed up the documents it had been holding back. He caved. Then without proper vetting of Mukasey, they go all gushy over him. In hearings, he doesn’t answer any of their questions but makes it plain that he believes as much in Presidential dictatorship as George Bush and Dick Cheney do. He can’t even answer a simple question about torture. So they ask him in writing and threaten not to approve his nomination unless he answers what should be for any decent person, let alone an Attorney General nominee, a nobrainer on torture. He doesn’t and their response is for Schumer and Feinstein representing the pro-torture wing of the Democratic Party to say they will vote for him anyway.

What is so frustrating is that the Democrats’ cowardice is not a single event but one stacked on top of another.

We may have to stay with them until the November election but after that we should give serious consideration in the following 4 years to breaking away and the establishment of a progressive party because let’s face it even with Democrats in control corporatists and yahoos like Schumer and Feinstein are going to be calling the shots and they clearly don’t represent us at all.

Hugh@172–well said. Good point with the juxtaposition of Police State Bush with a record low job approval and the backbone of a jelly fish Dems who are his complete slaves talking tough once in a while but voting with him every time like the complete hypocritical unprincipled pansy asses they are.

That tired old argument that they don’t have the votes to override a veto doesn’t hold up with their complete capitulation on Mukasey and Telco Immunity and warantless wiretapping for all calls and emails all the time not to mention the countless data bases of your personal information matrixed out the wazoo and leaked out the wazoo by incompetent bureaucrats.

His saber rattling on Iran is typical of the Bushies, Cheneys, William Crystals and the Podhoretz types. They have no troops whatsoever to send in Iran–the US armed forces and National Guard have been broken, and Iran has a real army and real intelligence service that the mullahs and clerics have shaped despite their holocaust denying parody of a puppet president. Paradoxically while holding the fundamentalist reins, the mullahs have efficient secular components that are building a nuclear bomb. It will be interesting to see what the next 50 years brings their with a generation of students who are torn between fundamentalism and a more Western secular milieu.

Ain’t no significant numbers joining up and only the Draft will stop the Iraq fiasco so Iraq can decide if they want to be taken over by Iran and Hamas or not.

Their kids aren’t in the Armed Forces; they’re on the golf course and the Ivy League dorms, and they never will be in the Armed Forces.

There is no effective air attack on Iran’s rapidly maturing nuclear bomb facilities which are hardened, underground, very dispersed, and its 993 miles from Tehran to Tel Aviv.

You won’t hear any specifics on most issues from any of the totally pathetic Republican white men candidates, certainly not Rudy 911 who would rachet up the Police State we now have in his fantasy of Oval Office Rudy if he weren’t going to lose to flip flop Romney.

Whichever of the three Dems wins the Iowa primary come January 3 (less than 60 days away), the primary,and then the general election, will it make that much difference?

Happy B-Day!

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