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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It's funny. The Republicans never need a super majority to enact their will. The Repubs were/are fully capable of blocking many things when they have the minority postion.
The Republicans weren't quaking with fear of only having a few votes over simple majority when they controlled all 3 branches and were able to successfully push their agenda through on the stunning mandate vote of Bush in 2000.
You get a clownish bog award. You deserve a AG Eric Holder resume-musical. Fill out a new
resume, or JOJ blogger of the day award. Apply for DOJ vacancies for the staff-bog-manager.
Be a DOJ wen designer @ Attorney General DOJ.bog.net.aol,com. Position go like broccoli on a stick, dipped in melted marshmallow. Fondu.
~Play melodies foe mood enhancement for AG.
ref: Dresden Concerto by D-?-somebody, I forget,
Who's name sounds like, Defreeze? Mozart? Beetles?
Play a musical from a Hungarian Rhapsody, DOJ in concert,
invite Elvis Preznit, or The Israeli Philharmonic. (You web-pew)
Plant field of Music garlic, sip French Cognac, smoke Cuban cigars.
Harvest carrots, beets, turnips, celery, poke weed, and make mulla chetrum.
Open a Ball Park frankfurter company, and send push-cart venders into streets.
Sell boiled hot dogs, stale buns, and market a franchise of preparation H? O.PU-Jeb-web.
The invasion of Afghanistan was controversial?
Something like 95 percent of Americans supported this. Of course, everyone in Congress supported this. We were going after terrorists who had just killed 3,000 innocent Americans.
Now, I'm getting angry. I hate it when conservatives call people who disagree with them unpatriotic, but I can't think of another adjective that explains this individual. "Sick," maybe.
The only problem with the "invasion" is that we stopped invading before catching the most heinous terrorists since Hitler.
Shalom,
ZWrite
Meanwhile, Pedinska is busy washing her sneakers and ironing her tutu for her recital on Duval St. Saturday night. Oh, Lordy!
Does that mean I don't have to overnight the tights and thigh-high boots to her? Thank heavens, because I was hoping to wear them one last time this weekend...
Don't worry folks. Pat Buchanan was just on Tweety's Hardball claiming that it would only be right that Obama appoint a couple lefties (he said "Kos types") to major Cabinet posts. Because after all "they got him there." So the Democratic Party may have completely abandoned us, but Pat Buchanan is coming to the rescue! Totally audacious hope!
He'd at least be obliged to lick the ass of the loser...
You the Lady Liberty stone statue,
with a torch, and a bowl of Kit cereal,
raw skim, ultra pasteurized, goat milk?
Joe's mom approved, b-fast served in bed.
Jeb-Web protects a nations precious heritage.
Joe-Dow Jones, Lieberman, bipartisan, hominy.
The invasion of Afghanistan was controversial?
Sure as hell was, and it still is. Would you like to tell us what it accomplished? Give me one uncontroversial and uncontroverted objective we reached by invading Afghanistan.
And bin laden is not responsible for our bad building standards or our non-working radios. There is no way he could do anything about that.
This "bipartisanship" kills truth on the horns of its artificial dilemma. I'd like to hear about "trans-partisanship," in which representatives transcend party affiliation and strive for truth and integrity.
Right now, the only transcendence achieved is one of mindless and duplicitous accord. To them, bipartisan means both agree to a particular doctrine. That's mono-partisanship. Some would call it an Oligarchy. Some might even call it Tyranny. "Democratic" and "Republican" are both sides of the same stale and corrupt coin -- the "coin of the realm."
Without discourse there is only Dictation. The congress is two-faced, and singular in its resolve to destroy Constitutional values through neglect and distraction.
The popular pejorative "Left" label is but a buzz-word applied to anyone who wants truth and integrity in order to dismiss them as "polarized." Give me the polarity that insists on truth any day!
How little the fools in power care about reality. They enjoy the (in)fantasy in which they live, hoping that Daddy won't take the T-bird away. But that is inevitable. Any single-minded devotion to a lie is doomed to fail at some point. Oh, the lie can go on for a long time, but those who adhere to it will be revealed over time. And eventually, the lie itself will be defeated. It may be replaced by others, such is the history of the world. But the lie will be defeated. The work goes on.
Gee, so trying to submarine Lieberman with Lamont backfired, and all involved are blaming everyone but themselves? Keep up the good work.
Of course, what is controversial for some is not for others. Since you felt there was no controversy, what part did you play in it? Certainly you didn't let other Americans pull your weight in going after the worst terrorist since Hitler, did you. Now that might be controversial.
Hitler? Where?!?
Jeralyn Merritt:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/11/18/194418/57
Eric Holder's 1997 Deputy A.G. Confirmation Hearing
On June 13, 1997, at age 46, Eric Holder was confirmed by the Senate as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno. His confirmation hearing lasted two hours [...]
[...]
On his objectives:
"First, to work with the attorney general in making sure that federal law enforcement resources are used wisely to address the major crime problems confronting our nation -- drugs, violence, gangs, juvenile crime, and official and financial corruption."
[...]
"While in law school in the mid-1970s, I clerked at the Department of Justice's Criminal Division. After graduation, I joined the Department of Justice as a part of the attorney general's honors program and was assigned to the newly-formed Public Integrity Section. For the next 12 years, I investigated and prosecuted official corruption on the local, state and federal levels. The defendants in these cases included appointed and elected officials all across the country who had broken their sacred bond with the people they were supposed to serve. Prosecuting these cases brought me into the trenches where I battled aggressively but always fairly to ensure that criminals were held accountable and that justice was ultimately done....."
"1988, I became an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and during the next five years I presided over hundreds of criminal trials and witnessed the devastation that can be traced to two simple elements; illegal drugs and senseless violence. As a judge, I also saw how poverty, despair, and failure to take personal responsibility for one's life and one's family tended to intensify the negative conditions that too many of fellow citizens, particularly our young people must endure."
"And where appropriate, I sentenced to long prison terms those criminal predators who had ensnared themselves in drugs and who had committed acts of violence and who had destroyed the lives of others."
[...]
On Mandatory Minimum Sentences:
SEN. LEAHY: "I have voted for a number of mandatory minimum sentencing bills, but I am growing increasingly concerned that they are being used heavily on low-level drug offenders; that the American people, both at the federal level and at the state and local levels, are being saddled with enormous bills, way into the future. Long after you and I will be out of public office, they'll still be paying off bond issues and what not for new prisons, and for retirement of prison personnel, and end up warehousing an awful lot of young people who, no matter what we say about rehabilitation in prison, usually don't get it, and come out unable to seek jobs or anything else. And I find that my own thinking changes, depending upon whether we're talking about mandatory minimum for a violent crime involving a weapon, a knife, a gun, a baseball bat or anything else, as compared to some of the lower-level drug offenders. Are we getting into a problem here? I look at the backlogs of courts; I look at the overcrowding of prisons. And I look at some of the people that are being released from prison, who are not there under mandatory minimums but were there for very violent crimes, to make room for mandatory- minimums of lower-level drug cases. Do we have a problem?"
MR. HOLDER: "I am not sure that we have a problem in the federal system.
I certainly have seen that with regard to some state systems. [...]"
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
