Big NSA domestic wiretap hearings to begin
This promises to be a good day for wonks and C-span junkies, as well as for anyone who cares whether the president should claim the power to break the law and subvert the constitution based on the rationale that... well... he should be able to do it.
Republican Arlen Specter, increasingly the only hope Democrats have of checking the run-away power grabbing White House, is to chair a hearing into the NSA domestic wiretap controversy.
Attorney General Alberto "Torture is A-OK" Gonzales is to be before the committee today.
Gotta go catch it.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 2/06/2006
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7 Comments:
Dumb Dubya still gets his "D" words mixed up, Democracy and Dictatorship stymie him every time.
So far, it hasn't dissappointed.
There was a big dispute before Gonzales ever began testifying over whether he would be sworn in or not.
Specter said Gonzales was ASKED if he would mind being sworn in, and he supposedly said he did not object to that.
But Specter then said that he'd decided not to swear Gonzales because there were laws on the books which provided penalties for lying to congress, so it wasn't necessary.
When Leahy and the Dems argued that Gonzales had been sworn in when he'd testified the last three times he'd appeared, and asked why, if Gonzales didn't object to being sworn in, Specter didn't just do it, Specter got indignant and said it wasn't up to Gonzales, and tried out his "I'm the chairman of this committee" line which got such great attention last time around during the Alito hearings.
The Dems demanded a vote, which of course the Republicans won with lemming-like precision.
So... Gonzales had been sworn in 3 times before when he testified before congress, and supposedly had agreed to be sworn in this time, yet the Republicans insisted that he not be. Why?
So glad you finally put up a topic that really matters instead of all that Jacobs-Rumler garbage.
So glad you saw fit to comment on a topic you were supposedly relieved to see and then had NOTHING to say about it.
Morons....
And besides, you must be dreaming if you think all I post is stuff about Jacobs. There's been a little run on his stuff lately, but any fair assessment will show that for every post that deals with Jacobs, there's at leaast a dozen that don't.
And interestingly enough, those are the ones on the most important issues, and also the posts which draw little or no comments whatsoever.
But glad you liked this topic so well you had zip to say about it.
John Kerry is right on target.
His position and leadership on this is one more reason I'm organizing KERRY FOR PRESIDENT 2008 in the Quad Cities!!
Personally, I hope that Bill Frist calls for a "sense of the Senate" resolution calling for the end of the NSA program. That way all 100 Senators will be on record so when the next terrorist attack happens and everyone starts yelling about "connecting the dots", GWB (or whoever) will be able to say, well, gee, I tried to connect the dots, but Senators X, Y, Z, etc. voted it down.This would be like the Murtha vote on pulling out of Iraq now---you'd see a vast difference between what politicians were saying and what politicians were doing.
Bush couldn't connect the dots if he threw them into a bucket of superglue.
The stone cold facts are that the administration knew about some of the hijackers, blew off an FBI agents repeated attempts to get FISA warrents to investigate why a Saudi was taking flying lessons yet only wanted to be taught how to take off and fly, not land, and of course, how much more blatant do you need to get when the callow fool of a president is handed a PRESIDENTIAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE which states in plain English... something with which Bush has only a nodding aquaintance... BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE WITHIN THE U.S.
And Bush, Condi, and all the rest of the incompetents just figured they'd get around to it after they finished pushing for billions in Star Wars missle defense or any of the other ridiculous notions they were working on when 9-11 fell into the incurious dolt's lap.
The twin tower were engulfed in flames and thousands were dying and Bush sat like the clueless frat boy he is reading "My Pet Goat".
And of course, we got Osama "dead or alive" just like the line which made wing nut's hearts go pitter patter and swoon at his manly manliness. No wait. Bush pulled all the special forces out of Afghanistan when they got close to capturing bin Laden and redeployed them to his excellent adventure in Iraq, which has gone equally well.
We haven't even gotten close to catching Osama and Bush says that he just isn't important anymore. Until he needs some cover. Then he tells us Osama is very dangerous indeed.
Hard to believe Bush even WANTS to to capture him. One could suspect his Saudi minders have let it be known that they don't want him captured.
Yeah, a grateful nation looks to George W. Bush in thanks for allowing them to raise their kids to live in a world of perpetual war, economic callamity, and a live much worse than that of their parents.
The guy is beyond any doubt, the worst .... president.... ever!
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