Guess they’re really big on torture-enablers in Nevada.
"Judge Bybee has a good professional reputation in Nevada," Reid spokesman Jon Summers said in an e-mail. "While the memos that have been released are disturbing to Sen. Reid, at this point in time, he doesn’t think we should be making a rush to judgment."
And Nevada’s other Senator is even worse.
"To call for him to be impeached when he was trying to give the proper legal advice is just ridiculous," [John] Ensign said. "You impeach people for ethical violations, for criminal violations. It would be like impeaching a member of Congress because they voted the wrong way."
Now, I’m pretty sure providing legal cover for criminal acts that violate the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions is unethical, but I’m not a lawyer, I’m just a guy.
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Thanks BT.
59 Democratic Senators.
One Senator, and one Majority Leader, short of real power.
Impeach Reid, please.
You really can’t count the Blue Dogs.
did I mention that we need a true Majority Leader?
on edit:
sometimes “font” is everything…
Have to start with a true majority.
Reid and Bybee are both LDS. One thing about the Mormons is that they do take care of their own.
Dick Farking Cheney has more integrity than this endlessly, excruciatingly, ridiculously useless shitweasel! God!
The Democrats are proving to be as morally bankrupt as the Republicans.
We really DON’T have a majority as long as we have Democrats that out conservative the conservatives. We’re still at a 60R 40D split.
But Obama likes this guy so we can expect more of the same.
Reid (Shitweasel – NV)
yeah, that works….
We are relying on a very slender reid.
You impeach people for ethical violations, for criminal violations
Because manufacturing legal cover for torture.. is sooo ethical.
Reid is a problem, but by no means the only one.
Without the acquiescence of the rest of the Democrats in the Senate (following a period of unparalleled timidity by Daschle), Reid goes nowhere in a bid for Leader.
Not to mention that the choice of a pro-birth Fundy isn’t my idea of a Democrat.
They will be spending their afterlife together in Heaven.
isnt it time for mr. Reid to spend more time with his wife and children,permanently?
Defending a client up on a murder charge is ethical.
Writing up some underground rules for an executive branch which purport to say that murder is an honorable and legal thing to do – not so much.
Aren’t Bybee and Reid both Mormons? Do Mormons advocate torture, or just protect each other from scrutiny no matter the reason.
Harry won’t exit until he fulfills his obligation to the LDS by Losing Democratic Seats.
Obama picks the majority leader?
We know Reid is not a lawyer himself, but..He surely understands that good lawyers are bright and creative and find clever nuances in the law….that does not mean Harry that lawyers get to make it up…..Lawyering is not writing fairy tales or myths. Harry may not get it.
Like any other denomination, the amount of sin that can be forgiven is proportional to your assistance in filling the coffers.
Alyssa Peterson was Mormon and she had a moral compass. Can’t say as much for Bybee and Reid.
and so it was written…long ago and far away
Yes, but she was female.
The United States of America has a WAR CRIMINAL sitting on the federal bench one level below the Supreme Court. The only remedy, barring a resignation or death, is impeachment. Impeachment is the cure.
And Harry Reid is the leader the Senate Democrats chose, and want, and continue to select as their leader? He is horrible. He is enabling a WAR CRIMINAL.
Or you just plain don’t re-elect them on basic principles. Like they’re too stupid for their shirts.
the Mormon Mafia watches out for its own.
watertiger is upstairs!
Late Nite: Only Sodomites and Child Molesters Use Budget Reconciliation
Let’s see a black inter city 19 year old kid accessory to murder 25 to life.
bybee sick scum Accessory to over 100 murders for not answering the question the way the traitors wanted to hear it . Bingo Federal REPUBLICAN IMMORAL ASSHOLE gets a life time appointment for ignoring human life.
Am I missing something here?
Please Mr. Reid, as you have just noted your sociopathic tendencies, it would be time for you to resign as well. We will have your friend impeached. Now that you are a torture apologist, you may be subject to war crimes. Clearly you have been assisting the Bush administration in carrying out crimes against humanity. Time to go.
This proves that Reid is not spineless … he is bereft of moral values.
I’ve put Sen Reid on my ‘block sender’ list for incoming email.
“While the memos that have been released are disturbing to Sen. Reid, at this point in time, he doesn’t think we should be making a rush to judgment.”
Get back to us, Harry, when you feel a judgment coming on. When will that be, Harry, any guesses? Next year, Harry? The year after that?
Arrrrrrrgh!
Apparently, Judge Bybee does not have enough regret to resign, but he said does regret signing the memo according to this article in the Washington Post: Amid Outcry on Memo, Signer’s Private Regret
I’d like to see him under oath. He might even want to tell us the lies he was told. If he was conned into signing it, I want to know. After 9/11, he may have been the same lies we have read in the press about torture, that have since been proven false. I want to know what he was told, and who told him.
Geeeshhh! This psychotic, “elite enabler and all around surrogate” is simply a f**king disgrace to anyone who actually cares about the rule of law and the Constitution of this country. Where in the f**k do they find these incompetent idiots!!
Well, Nevada.
Reid is a filthy piece of excrement. Totally useless to every just and progressive cause. He’s a toady for the military industrial cabal. Nothing more. Please, Nevada, kick his bitch-ass to the curb.
Bybee and Reid are both MORMONS. Mormons support each other. Reid is not being an American first in this exchange — he is defending a fellow priesthood holder.
While you may be right in this instance, Harry Reid has sat on his hands through some pretty atrocious chicanery by Republicans and his party brethren, and very little of it had anything to do with his church.
He is weak. He is weak and he is bought. That is plenty. He doesn’t need the LDS as impetus to prove his worthlessness.
OK. I take back all the things I said to mitigate his pusallinimity. I actually thought he had an excuse. He has none. This is despicable.
Janet Reno should have backed off David Koresch.
He really had a reputation in Waco, Texas.
You know the Spanish Inquisition is a great historical period in history. It reveals so much desire of the people of that time.
Here’s the thing. If the House Impeaches, Reid doesn’t have a choice. He has to hold the trial in the Senate. At that point anything goes. If he doesn’t want to commit, he can go out for a pee when the vote is taken.
Hopefully it will be a good long pee.
Hey Texan, Reid is the Democratic Party along with the Clintons. If the Clintons ot McCain had won, the torture memos would never have been released absent a court order.
Harry Reid? Harry Fucking Reid? Duplicitous, rightwing-enabling, Harry Fucking Reid?
That he is still the Senate Majority Leader says something disgusting about the Democratic Party…
Harry Fucking Reid?