Found in the comments to this post:
If . . . . Let's pass a law saying illegal activities (torture) are still illegal. Then let's wait for George "War Crimes" Bush to sign it.
Ludicrous and despicable!
NOVEMBER 6, 2007, 9:14 AM
By TOBIN HARSHAW
Well, for once the other senator from New York has set off the big blog debate. “I am voting today to support Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general for one critical reason: the Department of Justice — once the crown jewel among our government institutions — is a shambles and is in desperate need of a strong leader, committed to depoliticizing the agency’s operations,” writes Charles Schumer on
this morning’s Times Op-Ed Page.
Shaun Mullen of Kiko’s House has
a three-point response:
(1.) Yes, Main Justice is a mess, but putting its administrative house in order pales in comparison to calling out the president on torture.
(2.) It’s nice to know that he believes that Mukasey is a man of his word, but we know without question that the president is not. Nor is he about to cede any of the unprecedented power that he has grabbed.
(3.) When is it the time for the Senate to make “a bold declaration” about anything of consequence, let alone something so consequential as torture? The answer is evident: Not any time soon.
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Over at The Moderate Voice, Shaun Mullen (yep, him again) puts the Mukasey hearings into
the broader spectrum.
“You’re either against torture or you aren’t, and the Mukasey nomination was an opportunity for the Democrats to draw the line over an issue that has a moral gravity and is not merely political,” he writes. “Instead, the nomination debate began with party members going in several different directions at once, followed by the inevitable wavering and ending, it would now seem, with a whimper, as the White House yet again held and kept the upper hand. If I was grading the Dems, I would give them a big fat ‘D,’ although the most important grade is the one that voters will give them next time around.”
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