Comments on: Of Torture, Terror, And Law…Oh My!

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:36:14 +0000

Christy,
Thanks for your passion on this, which I share! May this passion motivate us to work effectively to restore the system that we knew, and that seemed to triumph during Watergate– although, as we now know, that victory was incomplete. Please keep up the good work! I appreciate your leadership.

Bob in HI

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:13:38 +0000

Wow, first Joe Klein, then Andrea Mitchell gets one right for a change! What’s this world coming to? I think either McShame’s staff has seen the symptoms of Alzheimers that I have been seeing or they are afraid he will reveal himself as nothing more than a grumpy old man of the same sort as the movie “Grumpy Old Men.” Or both!

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:50:07 +0000

and why oh why did they bother with clowns Goodling and Sampson when there were perfectly competent jurists like Allred available ?!?!?

Obviously they wanted stooges that would do whatever in order to completely politicize the DOJ, but if they got caught, would be able to believably say, “Well, I think I crossed the line, but I didn’t mean to.”

The pity of the whole thing is that our Dems are complicit because they are accepting no penalties as okay since “they didn’t mean to,” or because “the laws that were broken were only civil laws,” (again, whatever that means!) Then to add insult to injury, I don’t hear any great roar coming from the Dems while the administration designates more and more power to the DOJ thru the AG being the one to determine who gets wiretapped, etc., etc., etc.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:44:24 +0000

Was looking for my Birkenstocks just the other day.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Here’s one link to what I was reading yesterday, although I don’t think I linked this up from Jossip, but it links the Vanity Fair piece I did hit…

By: Redshift

Redshift — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:31:45 +0000

Meanwhile, is it any wonder that allies such as Britain and Canada are now questioning US representations on any number of intel issues

The mental midgets in charge of our government seem to have operated entirely on the principles that:

- our military power is unlimited except for our willingness to use it
- our allies will always follow our lead, because we’re the leader and we’re the “good guys,” no matter how much we lie to them and do heinous things

Bleah, I can’t even go on with the list. Honestly, I think they started with “principles” like those, based on years of pseudo-academic “research” produced in right-wing “think-tanks” where no one would question your ludicrous reasoning as long as you came to the pre-approved conclusions, and the progressed to doing whatever the hell looked like it would keep all the balls in the air until after the next election.

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:30:24 +0000

Joe and I are going Birkenstock shopping this afternoon. :D

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:29:26 +0000

I linked up a piece yesterday from one of the reporters trailing along with the “Straight Talk Express” about how on both the bus and the plane these days, the press are being kept as far away from McCain as possible by staffers. To the point of paranoia over a tiny sliver of peekaboo space in one of the curtains on the plane at one point.

Was in one of my posts yesterday — will try and find the link for comments here…it was really bizarre. Seems that the sprinkles are tasting a little off these days now that a few of the reporters have found their cojones on occasion…

By: rwcole

rwcole — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:26:36 +0000

Sounds like goin after an axe murderer with a pea shooter.

By: RevDeb

RevDeb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:26:03 +0000

Laugh for the day.