Posted on 09/06/2006 1:04:15 PM PDT by teddyballgame
The President just pulled one of the best maneuvers of his entire presidency. By transferring most major Al Qaeda terrorists to Guantanamo, and simultaneously sending Congress a bill to rescue the Military Commissions from the Supreme Court's ruling Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the President spectacularly ambushed the Democrats on terrain they fondly thought their own. Now Democrats who oppose (and who have vociferously opposed) the Military Commissions will in effect be opposing the prosecution of the terrorists who planned and launched the attacks of September 11 for war crimes. And if that were not enough, the President also frontally attacked the Hamdan ruling's potentially chilling effect on CIA extraordinary interrogation techniques, by arguing that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is too vague, and asking Congress to define clearly the criminal law limiting the scope of permissible interrogation.
Taken as a whole, the President's maneuver today turned the political tables completely around. He stole the terms of debate from the Democrats, and rewrote them, all in a single speech. It will be delightful to watch in coming days and hours as bewildered Democrats try to understand what just hit them, and then sort through the rubble of their anti-Bush national security strategy to see what, if anything, remains.
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If I don't misunderestimate him, will I be underestimating him?
If I don't misunderestimate him, will I be underestimating him?
Mmmmm????
Not sure on that one.
MU-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bush is framing the debate for the mid-terms. Nothing short of sheer brilliance.
How can one misunderestimate?
I think its a joke. At least, I hope...
"Karl Rove is back!"
The architect stikes again. Carl Levin just on "the Situation Room" stuttering. Dems are on their heels - watch them stumble badly.
What Bush did today was brilliant.
Let the Rats go on public record just what it is our military and intelligence personnel can and can't do to sweat the worst sort of jihadist.
Panties on a head? Kerry will be wringing his hands that it's against the Geneva convention.
Sleep deprivation? Kennedy will be thundering that we're the evil doers.
Drape them in an Israeli flag? Durbin will whine that we're like Pol Pot.
I see some great GOP commercials coming up in the next month or so. Provided the Republicans actually get working on this.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I still think that SCOTUS screwed up big time on the Gitmo decision though...
Though GW isn't Darth Vader, the title of the thread/post invokes the thought of John Williams' Imperial March (from "The Empire Strikes Back").
I'm interested to read the FReaction from the live thread. Must run out, and do my part to remove myself from the 4.7% unemployment number (layoff).
This just proves how dumb Bush is....bwahahahaahahaha!!! He does this to them all the time.Outflanks them and turns their own stuff against them. This is classic Bush, I am glad the cowboy is back in the saddle again. Just in time for the November elections. Now unthaw BinLadin from Roves Freezer and trot out the dead terrorist!!!bwahahahahahaha!
"How can one misunderestimate?"
It is a joke. Bush once famously stated that he should'nt be misunderestimated. Dems pounced and made fun of it. Bush laughed last and won the 2000 election over Gore.
Brilliant Strategery!!!!!!!!
Go GW!!!
It's Karl Rove's fault.
Now Hastert and Frist will keep this on the front burner through November.
All those Republican punks distancing themselves from the President in their campaigns are now pensively staring out the window...
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