Nelson (D-Ne) says he will vote for Mukasey

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1100&u_sid=10177226

Published Tuesday | November 6, 2007
Nelson says he will vote for Mukasey
BY JAKE THOMPSON
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Monday that he will vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as attorney general.

Nelson met with Mukasey for 30 minutes in his Senate office Monday. Nelson said he was convinced that Mukasey would help restore credibility to the Justice Department, which Nelson said suffered under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

"He hammered away on the fact that his job was to enforce the law, as it was," Nelson said of Mukasey. "He has a very short time (in office), and he wants to make it his legacy that he return trust and confidence to the Justice Department."

Some congressional Democrats have criticized Mukasey for saying at his confirmation hearing that he was unfamiliar with waterboarding and could not say whether he views it as torture and therefore illegal.

FULL story at link.

[Ian David]

1. Well, of course. He's a Bushdog Democrat. n/t

[bullimiami]

2. yup. not much of a surprise there.

[sam sarrha]

3. oh.. 'enforce the law.? it is illegal to torture.! it is illegal to protect those who torture LINK>

If you scroll down on this link there are graphic photos of extreme rendition and gonzo and the pResident's torture Handy work
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27873.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1146979,00.html

[Eric J in MN]

4. The Bush nominees all want to "enforce the law"...

...but they have a warped view of the law which includes exteme executive power.

[fasttense]

5. Compromising with fascism never works. One look at Mussolini's rise to power

makes it clear you cannot deal with the devil.

Compromise in the face of a revolutionary crisis leads to disaster.

An Italian anarchist leader warned at the height of the revolutionary wave of 1919-20, "If we do not carry on until the end we shall pay with tears of blood for the fear we now install in the bourgeoisie." He was right. Looking back in July 1923 Mussolini bragged that the Italian left had not known how "to profit from a revolutionary situation such as history does not repeat".

The Italian Socialist Party should have been a mighty force. It had a mass membership and its leaders talked endlessly of revolution. But the leadership believed that all they had to do to win this revolution was wait for it to drop into their laps.

In the end, while workers occupied the factories, their leaders turned their backs on revolution and brokered a deal.

They let the revolutionary challenge of 1919-20 pass them by, preferring to build their party in isolation from the real struggle for revolution. The party focused on parliament, not mass action, and its leaders had no strategy for resisting fascism.

A section of the Socialist Party became so frustrated by the leaders' failure to take on fascism that they broke away to form the Communist Party, inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917.

the Arditi del Popolo (Shock Troops of the People), organized resistance to the fascist Black-shirts and inflicted serious defeats on them. The Socialist Party denounced the Arditi for being so militant and then signed a pact with Mussolini – which he, of course, ignored. The Communist Party ordered its members to quit the Arditi's ranks because non-Communists led them!

Outside Italy Mussolini is remembered as something of a buffoon. But he unleashed a cruel violence.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=4323

History is so instructive, too bad the Democratic Party doesn't study it.

[Bitwit1234]

6. Nelson does flip over to the republican side a lot doesn't he.