skippy the bush kangaroo

Friday, December 23, 2005

the end game

tom daschle spills the beans. his awol-ness asked for the congressional authority to wage war in the u.s. - and didn't get it.

daschle: congress denied bush war powers in u.s. - the bush administration requested, and congress rejected, war-making authority "in the united states" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former senate majority leader thomas a. daschle (d-s.d.) in today's washington post.

daschle's disclosure challenges a central legal argument offered by the white house in defense of the national security agency's warrantless wiretapping of u.s. citizens and permanent residents. it suggests that congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution.

wapo, therefore, seems to think that when the dark lord (who is the father of a lesbian) was blowing smoke out his anal orifice when he said:

"when we were hit on 9/11," mr. cheney said, president bush "was granted authority by the congress to use all means necessary to take on the terrorists, and that's what we've done."
oops - an m.b.o.e. (mendacious bag of excrement) award to the dark lord (f.o.a.l.), himself. But the m.b.o.e. competition has been stiff. pat roberts, his awol-ness's favorite spook and quondam chair of the house intelligence committee, who said congressional democrats in the gang of eight knew and didn't object to awol's data mining extravaganza only to be contradicted by democrats on the committee like bob graham and jay rockefeller who had the foresight to make contemporaneous letter of protest and, god bless him, to keep a copy.

and let's not forget what his awol-ness himself said two years ago about the silly rule of law stuff

"now, by the way, any time you hear the united states government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order," the president said in a speech in buffalo, n.y. on april 20, 2004, in which he discussed the usa patriot act, a post-sept. 11 law enforcement statute.

it's like watching the end of a basketball game when one team is down and their only hope is to foul the other side, hope the other side misses the free throw, and hope that they score when they get control of the ball. that's what his awol-ness and his boys are reduced to right now - the hack-a-shaq gambit. if this is their political strategy, we bet you a dollar to a donut that karl knows he's going to be indicted and has long since checked out.
posted by Pudentilla at 5:11 AM |

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