Posted on 02/06/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by ken5050
Good Monday morning, once again, fellow political jinkies. The NFL season may be over, but the political season inside the Beltway is 24/7/365. So join us, if you can, as those wacky Dems on the Senate Judiciary committee reprise their pitiful efforts to once again smear President Bush and score political points..
Leahy rambling and I can't capture it all.
this one
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senators_considering_constitutional_amendment_to_limit_0205.html
Senators considering constitutional amendment to limit war powers
[Mind wondering....whether we might be better off had Flt 93 taken out a few dozen radical lib lawmakers......mind wondering....]
hmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Lets all remember though...that THIS particular campaign "commerical" is being brought to us by SPECTER!!
He is the one who called for this hearing...
The one thing he does keep saying is "illegal".
The Dems are doing the old "Big Lie" routine.
lol! no need to capture leahy's words. Flying lies scatter to the wind.
Here is the transcript of Gen. Hayden's interview on FoxNews Sunday. A "must read".
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183844,00.html
Oh, Orca is there. His UGLY face was shown.
OTOH, the 'rats are going to give us juicy fodder for the elections in eight months. :) So something good will come out of it.
Is that Spanish or something? LOL. I hope he tells them more than that. I hope they get a royal earful. I don't think Gonzalez seems combative enough somehow.
Leahy threatening the AG and the POTUS!!!
YOU follow the law, or else.
Gosh..he even included Senators...but, isn't Kennedy sitting next to him???
If I recall .. it was the Dems that insisted on having the Unions take care of the screening process at the airports
The Dems wanted to swear Gozales, I think they should swear the Senators - Leahy's monologue was full of lies.
The practice is NOT 'wire tapping'.......electronic surveillance, dummy, is different AND enemies intent upon killing you and us SHOULD be monitored.
Wartime Power Play
By MASSIMO CALABRESI
As Capitol Hill prepares to battle the White House over George W. Bush's expanding war powers, moderate Senators on both sides of the aisle are quietly considering a range of options that would attempt at the very least to delineate the President's authority, if not roll it back. Bush's claims of wartime license are so great--the White House and Justice Department have argued that the Commander in Chief's pursuit of national security cannot be constrained by any laws passed by Congress, even when he is acting against U.S. citizens--that some Senators are considering a constitutional amendment to limit his powers.
In the public-opinion battle over domestic eavesdropping, Bush won the first round by arguing that he needed the unchecked power to learn "if there are people inside our country who are talking with al-Qaeda." With poll numbers split on the issue, spooked Senators hunkered down. But in recent days, Senate Democrats and the Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman, Arlen Specter, have fired off nine letters to the Justice Department and the White House demanding information on the domestic-spying program. At Senate hearings last week, the former head of the National Security Agency refused even in closed session to say how many phones had been tapped in the U.S. This reticence comes after conflicting public estimates from President Bush ("a few" U.S. phones) and his Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ("thousands").
A source familiar with the nascent constitutional amendment says one version would make clear that any actions by the President as Commander in Chief that affect domestic policies or U.S. citizens are subject to the exclusive control of Congress. "Congress can't completely cede wartime power to the President," the source says. Talk of an amendment could end up as merely a lever in hearings. Then again, the first 10 amendments--better known as the Bill of Rights--were demanded by the states in part to curb the Constitution's broad presidential powers.
Gonzales up next....
Flying Nuns eh...I once worked for a Quaker...and he knew lots of cuss words....and could turn blue when angry!
Yes, and I think the AG and the POTUS SHOULD follow the law. And give Rockefeller his choice, firing squad or electric chair.
I am very worried about this.
What a great idea
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