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..
Gonzalez looked like he was trying to keep from smiling when answering Feingold...IMHO>
Are you guys seeing this? Most of the committee isn't even back yet?!
What an Ass Feingold is....but, all the rats are...
Montomery Burns is the old, liver-spotted, tottering, plotting millionaire-despot on the Simpsons.
Burns is stuck in another time, unaware and uninterested in the necessities of the present time, ( a la Specter) which is frightening considering he is the owner of the Nuclear Power Plant that employs Homer.
This is sickening. Have they moved everything "throwable" away from Gonzalez, just to be safe?
Who wrote Feingold's questions, Pied Piper Pitt?
The President's authority over national security "carries with it the inherent power to guard against the immediate renewal of the conflict." Application of Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1, 12 (1946).
:o) And with the mute button built into your mouse.
So what else is new --
Libs are just playing for the cameras. If you remember they did the same about the Abu Grahib -- It happened more than six months earilier, was reported to Congress and the press four months earlier. Dems made it a big deal AFTER the pictures were leaked. Real fowl excrement
thanks for the ping. Think I am going to listen to Rush and follow the thread.
When Feingold runs he'll carry all the college towns in the primaries and not much else.
Graham- If you think this is illegal, defund it, stop the program and vote your convictions.
Graham: I find your testimony honest and straightforward. I don't agree with all your legal reasoning. Isn't it true that a small group of Congressmen have been briefed?
Gonzales: I haven't been present at all the briefings but the ones I was present, it was extensive. Members were given an opportunity to ask questions nad voice concerns.
Graham: And if Congressmen who were briefed thought the program was illegal, they could present legislation to stop the program.
There are 2 ways we can do this. We can argue what the law is and whether it was broken, play a political game of shirts vs. skins or we can find a way to find a way the law should be.
In a dangerous time for our country, I choose collaboration vs. conflict. The statutory force argument that you're making is dangerous in terms of this application for the future.
If you overly interpret this, I never envisioned I was giving the president the ability to go over FISA. It's not my intent, you're right, it's the letter of the resolution.
If the president comes back, there's a memory bank here. And it will be harder for another president to get force resolutions.
Gonzales: I understand your concerns.
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 17, 2005
"Today's vote is a great moment for our Constitution and our democracy and a great moment in the fight against terrorism," said Wisconsin's Sen. Russell D. Feingold, who has led the fight for Democrats. "If you don't have the confidence of the American people when it comes to this fight against terrorism, if they fear that somehow we're going too far and going after the rights of law-abiding citizens -- it will weaken our ability to win in that all-important battle."
"Who wrote Feingold's questions, Pied Piper Pitt?"
He did .. over at the Daily Kos
Pre-1776 Mentality
by Senator Russ Feingold
Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:01 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/2/10581/84829
For Heaven's sake Sandy, stay away from DU
:)
Well there goes Lindsey shooting himself in the foot again
LOL...I think I just outed myself as a NON watcher of The Simpsons...
Ya got that right!
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