What part of:

No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

do you fucking morons fail to understand? The US signed a treaty outlawing torture. Period.

And the scary thing is I really don't think he is capable of comprehending this fact that seems so obvious to us.

It truly may be a cultural idiosyncracy; he is an emigrant from Korea to the US, and Korean culture is very top down/authoritarian; he really does not seem to be able to grasp the underlying fact of our governance: of, by and for the people

And your pathetic Article II argument . . . NOTHING, repeat nothing in Article II grants the president the right to disobey the Rule of Law. (See, also, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 ).

So happens your idol, the Alzheimered Teflon Fool aka Ronald-fucking-Reagan, signed the Convention Against Torture which specifically makes torture illegal under ANY circumstances. The president signed it, Congress ratified it. Even a retarded bumpkin like you ought to know what that means according to Article III of the Constitution: It means its the law of the land.

And just what law school do you disingenuously claim to have graduated from?

Quick!! Call a wambulance!!! "Someone" needs to be fired.

1. The abuses of Abu Ghraib happened as a direct result of orders coming down from Rummy and Dougie Feith, based on Yoo's legal malpractice.

2. Torture is defined quite clearly by the Convention Against Torture, to which the US is a signator:

For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

If you don't understand waterboarding qualifies as torture under this definition, ask the next three year old child you meet to explain this to you. In any case, the definition of whether or nor an act constitutes torture is a matter for the trier of fact, i.e., A JURY.

What part of this does the clueless Jim Cramer not get?? Apparently Cramer was unable to predict that going on the Today Show and Morning Joe to cry on Joe's manly shoulder would simply produce MORE hilarious cherry-pickable moments for Stewart.

Sit down and shut up, Cramer, sooner or later people will forget how you pimped for Bear Stearns right up until they went into the dumpster.

The corruption of the Senate Democrats is exceeded only by the corruption of the Senate Republicans. In a race to the bottom, nobody wins.

Sorry, rocky, Jim Cramer is an idiot who has admitted criminal manipulating stocks and who disastrously misunderstood the looming financial crises of the day.

And Jon Stewart is a very funny guy.

And if you think Stewart is "far-left" you'd prbably pee your pants if you met me.

here's what Gibbs should have said:

Cheney? Dick Cheney?? You mean the draft-dodging, drunk-driving, college drop out war criminal, torturer and alleged assassination ring leader?? The guy who outed the CIA agent and conspired to give $27,000,000,000.00 in no bid contracts to Halliburton, thus personally enriching himself to the tune of about $8,000,000.00??

Is that the Dick Cheney you assholes in the media want me to respect??

Just asking.

lies, propaganda, torture, assassination, corporate buggery, false and unnecessary wars, corporate criminality and economic opression of those who work for a living.

And if the Republicans get their panties all in a bunch, we can call them a WAMBULANCE!!

From Wikipedia:

In the United States Congress, the reconciliation process is the process established in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 by which Congress changes existing laws to conform tax and spending levels to the levels set in a budget resolution. Changes recommended by committees pursuant to a reconciliation instruction are incorporated into a reconciliation

See, also The Budget Reconciliation Process at http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/bud_rec_proc.htm

It's Freneto himself, the hyper-ADHD-post adolescent Jim Cramer . . . he who touted CitiBank and failed totally to see the economic tsunami that has engulfed us.

CNBC's incompetence is akin to if the Weather Channel had failed to predict Katrina.

He says: one person having total power over another persons' body = bad. Patriarchy having total power over ALL women's bodies = good.

Hmmmm . . . . Huckabee = Taliban?????

And . . . uh . . . since when is a microscopic bit of cytoplasm a "person"?????

Don't like abortion? Then don't have one.

Nobody said a few cells were not "life" . . . they said a few cells are not "a person."

I'm taking a wild guess that you're some kind or religious nut . . . and if I'm correct, would point out that terminating pregnancy prior to the "quickening" (which occurs during 4th or 5th month) was permitted in the Old Testament:

the Bible recommends administering an abortifacient to a wife if her husband suspects her of being unfaithful. Numbers 5:11-29. A priest would administer the abortifacient ("water of bitterness", Num. 5-17-18) and if the woman has in fact been unfaithful, the water would "make your uterus drop, your womb discharge". Num. 5-21,22, and 27.

Geeze, back in the old days the HUSBAND had control of the womb . . . what a sur-fucking-prise! No wonder that moron Huckabee is a preacher.