Letters to the Editor
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@ Frankly, My Dear
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It can't be done with legislation; it will take a constitutional amendment:
Article II, Section 2.3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
If "session" is defined as the term of the currently elected Congress, then "next session" would be at the end of the next elected Congress's term (the "current session" would describe the one with those currently elected to Congress). Maybe a better read of "session" is when they reconvene from recess until they recess again or adjourn, giving them a chance to give an "up/down" to any such appointments....
Any good "textualist" ought to agree here, and not pretend the words "next" means the full current term of Congress.
Cheers,
Cheers,
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Korematsu was a wrong decision...
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and most sentient people now feel that way, including Congress, which has apologised for the internment.
As for spying on the "enemy", that's precisely what FISA allows.
Someone here probably ain't old enough to remember CONTELPRO and the Church Commission.....
Cheers,
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Korematsu ... "reasonable" ... Fourth Amendment
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brain ... "Jake007" ... sense.
"One of thes things is not like the others; one of these things just doesn't belong...."
We're talking major hallucinogens here, folks ... or rampant senility already in someone that wasn't around in 1978.
Cheers,
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Somebody thinks I'm talking to him....
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nah (but he's too stoopid to realise it). I'm just, in my own way, throwing peanuts to the crowd. If we're sitting around, may as well have some eats with the entertainment.
Cheers,
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@ jojo++
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't see any value in treating these "people" as reasonable conversational partners.
Nor do I. See above.
Cheers,
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"shooter042" is sadly behind the times
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][quoth the "shooter"]: On November 12, 2001, the Times reported:-
Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations …
Irrelevant. Gore asked for recounts in these four counties in the protest phase (and that is as it is; protests must be done on a county-by-county basis). After his contest of the election (which was a state-wide contest of the election, not a protest of the county returns), the state supreme court ordered statewide recounts, as they should do. And statewide, had all legal ballots been counted, Gore would have won (the fiasco with the butterfly ballots, as well as the disenfranchisement of thousands of eligible voters through Harris's "purge lists" notwithstanding).
Cheers,
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"shooter024": Pot calling the kettle black
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And this doesn't even address the scuminess of wanting recounts in only Dem counties. Obviously you and Arne owe us an apology for getting it wrong, again.
The Republicans got "stealth" manual recounts in some Republican-leaning counties, resulting in a net of several hundred more votes for Dubya, all included in the "official" counts.
Then there's their hypocrisy with the overseas ballots, challenging such absentee ballots in Democratic-leaning counties while pushing for inclusion of even those ballots that were clearly invalid by Florida law in counties that were Republican-leaning. After the uproar about the Democratic memo on challenges, the Democrats stopped all efforts to challenge such ballots. But the Republicans had similar instructions, only theirs were more specific: Challenge servicemen's ballots if they're likely to be Democratic (which they did successfully), but not Republican ones. The only party that got bothered t challenge (and challenge successfully) ballots from overseas was the Republican party, So much for "homouring the troops". This was all detailed in N.Y. Times articles by Dale Van Natta, in July of 2001.
Cheers,
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@ Frankly, My Dear
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the info. :-)
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@ Frankly, My Dear
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember it well. The headlines in 96 pt type:
NIXON SACKS COX
Well, yes, Nixon was a Cox sacker. Dubya's just an azo ("major league").
Cheers,
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Just a FYI, folks
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From over at
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/15/debate-torture/
(sorry, Glenn, more work for you there; a guy's work is never done)
We have this offering from "Jake007":
Torturing someone is not necessarily a sin — just as killing someone (self-defense, for instance) isn’t always a sin. The government is specifically authorized in Romans 13 to be God’s agent for His wrath. You people — you have no idea how to defend a nation.
Comment by Jake — May 16, 2007 @ 12:38 am
'Nuff said. Lesson over.
Cheers,