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Published Letters: 444 Editor's Choice: 6
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@LWM
[Read the article: What happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have yet to read a Pauliac post. Perhaps I've missed them earlier?
If you think I'm a Pauliac, to go back to the 80s...NOT.
If Paul wouldn't be so damaging otherwise (I don't want someone running the Executive who will repeat x10 what Bush has done to the EPA, CPSB, FAA, FEC, FEMA, NASA, etc...I want someone who will staff them with good people and see to it that they DO THEIR JOBS AS INTENDED...Paul ain't that guy). I'd rather abstain from voting in the Presidential than cast a vote for more of the same evil shit (Clinton). The others just don't have a compelling reason for me to vote FOR them.
And not a single one of the "big guns" senators in the race bothered to so much as squeak about the Mukasey thing.
Tell you what, LWM, if Hillary calls for Reid's head on a plate (demands he step down as Majority Leader) then I will reconsider my absolute ban on personally voting for her. I MIGHT hold my nose in the general, though I wont lift a finger in the primary. I ain't holdin my breath on this.
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@shot-his-load 242
[Read the article: What happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why would Democrats filibuster THEIR recommendation, to Bush, of Mukasey?
It really is simple shooter. Honestly, only politicians and morons make this into some horribly difficult "thing". A normal person would put forward a candidate that think would be an acceptable choice. Now, they can't know absolutely that the candidate doesn't have any unsightly warts, not right off, and they hope and suspect that he/she doesn't have said warts.
Problem: the candidate turns out to have not warts, but a HUGE carbuncle. I mean, it is the Mt Everest of carbuncles. What to do what to do? Feel constrained by physical laws that don't exist to continue to support this person as if s/he had no carbuncle or say, 'That's a shame. I thought I knew you but you hid this unsightly aspect of yourself. I'm disappointed' and vote "nay". I know what a NORMAL human being with any sense of decency (or shame) would do: they'd cut bait and vote "nay". Schumer, NOT being a normal human being and lacking even a shred of decency or ethics, feels this nonexistent physical force requiring that he not back away from a man who is clearly unsuited, upon vetting, for the job at hand. So he does a tap dance to get through the cognitive dissonance (look it up shot-wad242) and votes incomprehensively for Mr Carbuncle.
It would have been EASY to spit this guy out and allow Bush to simply recess appoint him (and thus take all the torture fully and entirely upon his own shoulders, and staying in legal jeopardy) but Schumer being a disgusting politician with not even a passing acquaintance with truth, honesty, integrity, steps up and decides that the Democrapic party should also become fully complicit in torture AND give our torturer in chief (Bush) amnesty to boot.
It is really REALLY simple shooter-poot. Not complex at all.
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MariA...please, I'd REALLY rather not
[Read the article: What happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wake up and smell the Democrats
It smells a great deal like a dog's leaky anal gland. That and booze mixed with vomit.
The entire Congress needs to be hosed down with a good 10% bleach solution and then gassed with ozone.
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@ondolette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've fallen in love with you :)
As I keep arguing as well (and until a lawyer type sets me "right" COUGH glenn! COUGH I stand by it) that Schumer has setup a situation that not only renders the Conventions totally useless and empty, but de facto places torture/waterboarding squarely into the mere realm of each nation's statutory control. "Oh, waterboarding isn't used anymore in the US because they passed a law banning it, but Belgium and Russia just put waterboarding on the table, so to speak, as a valued means of 'interrogation'"
Now, when US troops are waterboarded, there can be no legal remedy after the fact. It is just a matter of local law. Also, Schumer should introduce a bill exonerating the Japanese that were prosecuted specifically for waterboarding US soldiers in WWII. It wasn't a crime or torture afterall.
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@Jim White
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting story. Don't forget, in a slight revision, to add the new "pain-inducing" microwave emitter the military is testing. Protests are hard to keep cohesive when everyone is running, screaming, and scattering to avoid the feeling of being boiled (which is the sensation accompanying the 94GHz signal).
It is perfect too...torture without leaving marks...though too long an exposure causes blistering and can f*ck your eyes.
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@Che Pasa
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for clearing that up.
Feinstein is also a war profiteer. Her hubby makes big bucks off war so of course she will stand behind any ole war to come along. If she could do it without getting caught, she'd be fine with allowing sweatshops too if she could make $$ off it.
Feinstein is no better than Lieberman.
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@ondolette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is important to understand that when it came time to stand with his nominee, Chuckie didn't just stand and back his man, he stood and backed the techniques his man was defending
That whole thing literally makes me wanna puke and beat the ever loving shit out of Schumer at the same damn time. He is unfit for office.
GODS! I hate how they have all taken on the illusion that life is a TV show, that dropping bombs and fighting wars are just video games, that James Bond or 24 scenarios are "ripped from the headlines!"