skippy the bush kangaroo: consequences without actions...

Friday, November 09, 2007

consequences without actions...

glenn greenwald on the senate voting to confirm michael mukasey as attorney general:

numerous senate democrats delivered dramatic speeches from the floor as to why mukasey's confirmation would be so devastating to the country. the washington post said the "vote came after more than four hours of impassioned floor debate."

"torture should not be what america stands for... i do not vote to allow torture," said judiciary committee chairman pat leahy. russ feingold said: "we need an attorney general who will tell the president that he cannot ignore the laws passed by congress. and on that fundamental qualification for this office judge mukasey falls short." feingold added: "if judge mukasey won't say the truth -- that this barbaric practice is torture -- how can we count on him to stand up to the white house on other issues?"

wow -- it sound as though there was really a lot at stake in this vote. so why would 44 democratic senators make a flamboyant showing of opposing confirmation without actually doing what they could to prevent it? is it that a filibuster was not possible because a large number of these democratic senators were willing to symbolically oppose any confirmation so they could say they did -- by casting meaningless votes in opposition knowing that confirmation was guaranteed -- but were unwilling to demonstrate the sincerity of their claimed beliefs by acting on them?

yes, it is. thanks again, democrats.

with nearly all of the signs pointing to greater democratic control of the government after the 2008 elections, building on your gains this year and the last due to citizen backlash against the vast, rank corruption and incompetence of the republican party, you f&%k*$g people will not make the most of this platinum opportunity to rein in the bush administration real tight and proceed to relegate the gop to the trash can of history where it rightfully belongs. you just won't do it.

why should i write any more posts in defense of any of you? yeah. yeah, russ feingold says what needs to be said no matter how out of sync it is with conventional beltway wisdom. i know that. he's a fine senator. he's also window dressing that you dems employ to placate the bothersome progressives. the rest of you jackasses expect me to salivate every time feingold rings a bell, is that the deal? f%#k you, this isn't a lab experiment, this is a democracy on the ropes. what is wrong with you people?

what is it? are you afraid some idiot psycho freak like ann coulter is gonna spew some fake crap about you for the hardly-ever-right to smear all over the media landscape if you do walk the walk? come on, when doesn't coulter do that? i just can't figure it out, folks -- do you enjoy being seen and portrayed as fickle invertebrates? because on that count, the hardly-ever-right appears to be right.

so thanks again for letting a judge who can't or won't judge whether waterboarding is torture or not become attorney general, senate democrats. thanks a million. you would have made the spanish inquisition jealous...

Labels: politics

posted by Jim Yeager at 11:20 AM |

3 Comments:

Besides Greenwalds great title question: "What happened to the Senate's '60-vote requirement'?", it's impossible to disagree with his conclusion:
The so-called "60-vote requirement" applies only when it is time to do something to limit the Bush administration. It is merely the excuse Senate Democrats use to explain away their chronic failure/unwillingness to limit the President, and it is what the media uses to depict the GOP filibuster as something normal and benign. There obviously is no "60-vote requirement" when it comes to having the Senate comply with the President's demands, as the 53-vote confirmation of Michael Mukasey amply demonstrates. But as Mukasey is sworn in as the highest law enforcement officer in America, the Democrats want you to know that they most certainly did stand firm and "register their displeasure."

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Disgusted in St. Louis, 11:45 AM PST

Yea Jill. Sooooo depresssing. Diane Feinstein, thanks for nothing. Who do you really represent? Not me anymore.

Just how radical is it to NOT support torture? Seriously.

Fear of wingnuts and the manipulation of the media by the right with their fear is what made this happen.

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Spocko, 12:58 PM PST

I think we need a new crop of democrats--true progressives (not these money-grubbing, pandering, lying fakers) who will make real changes and bring back our democracy.

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dguzman, 1:14 PM PST

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