Fat, Drunk and Stupid
is no way to go through
life
Posted on 01/17/2005 5:13:13 PM PST by wagglebee
While most of his Democratic Senate colleagues say they will vote to confirm attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales despite their misgivings about his role in shaping Bush administration policies for treating terrorists, Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is "leaning against" confirmation.
Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," the Massachusettes senator said he was dissatisfied with Gonzales's answers under questioning - that the administration will not tolerate torture while at the same time defending his claims that the protections of the Geneva Conventions do not apply to alleged terrorists, the Washington Post reported.
"He had conversations with the Justice Department; he couldn't remember those," Kennedy said. "He couldn't remember many different kinds of facts. ... This nominee is the principal architect, it appears, for the development of the changes in the Geneva Convention, and torture. And he has an opportunity in response to these questions to explain it. I don't think he did."
An aide to the Senate Democratic leadership told the Post that Democrats are considering invoking a committee rule to postpone consideration of the Gonzales nomination for a week because they have not yet received answers to follow-up questions they have submitted to him.
The aide, however, added that although the Democrats have policy differences with Gonzales, they have found nothing that would automatically disqualify him, and that Gonzales would still eventually be confirmed.
Someone needs to sober this a**hole up and remind him that all of these "alleged" terrorists have fared far better than Mary Jo Kopechne did.
I am not suprised Sen. Kennedy is leaning. He usually is three sheets in the wind.
Goodness! He could CRUSH the poor man!
Kennedy is leaning against a bar.
They don't, fatboy. Try reading the treaty during the brief window in the morning that you are between last night's hangover and today's liquid lunch.
Nah, suffocation is more likely if Gonzales gets pushed too far into a skin fold.
So, Killer Kennedy is "leaning". All I have to say is.... TIMBER!!!!!!!
I've never tried, but I'm guessing it's pretty tough to read when you're puking in the toilet.
In Uncle Ted's drunken mind, "waterboarding" Mary Jo Kopechne was justified but doing the same to Al Qaeda terrorists is a human rights atrocity. And his opposition to Alberto Gonzales is based on the premise torturing terrorists amounts to depriving them of air conditioning. For crying out loud, we're not even killing them! Then I'm sure we'd see the senior Senator from Massachusetts hit the roof.
"He couldn't remember many different kinds of facts..."
What a maroon. There aren't "different" kinds of "facts" are there? There are just plain, old FACTS!
Why can't this waste of oxygen go into some sort of liver-diseased septic shock and just put us all out of our misery?
I'd better be careful what I wish for. Can you imagine the funeral they'll have for this dope? The wailing, the rending of cloth, the gnashing of teeth, the tearing of hair...it will be horrid!
Indeed they should. Kennedy is a complete slimeball, saved from criminal punishment and propelled into politics only by his family name.
However, from my perspective about the only reason to support Gonzales is because he irks people like Kennedy so much. Gonzales is absolutely terrible on immigration, and was chiefly responsible for Bush's betrayal of conservatives in the University of Michigan racial preferences case decided by the Sup Court two years ago, when he torpedoed Solicitor General Ted Olson's principled objection to using race as a factor, and instead made it official administration policy to accept the diversity rationale (i.e. that achieving it is such a compelling state interest that it justifies racial preferences). Who knows how much that played into Sandra Day O'Connor's decisive vote for preferences.
As Attorney General, we could expect him to be worthless in enforcing immigration laws, and totally unresponsive to reverse discrimination.
But, a possible silver-lining could be if it means Bush won't nominate him to the Sup Court, where he'd be even more dangerous.
If he leans any further, he'll tip the whole boat!
"Can you imagine the funeral they'll have for this dope?"
8 to 10 pallbearers. One of them will probably be Osama bin Osama Obama.
i tried that once when I was in college. I decided it was not doable.
Big surprise.
I can't think of a better endorsement for Gonzales than this.
"...he was dissatisfied with Gonzales's answers ...that the protections of the Geneva Conventions do not apply to alleged terrorists
from the human with no detectable conscience.
He's wearing sunglasses because the glare off the pink elephants he seeing is blinding him.
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