Build Pressure for Mukasey Filibuster
It seems obvious now that Judge Mukasey, despite his refusal to call waterboarding torture, will be confirmed due to yet another capitulation of the Democratic Congress. I'm surprised there isn't the...
View ArticleWhy I Support the Sons of Millworkers
Since you Kossacks are not very informed about politics, I thought I'd let you in on a little secret. John Edwards is the son of a millworker. I also have thrown my support behind another son of a...
View ArticleCompetence and Accountability
Though they ran on Competence and Accountability in '06, the Dems are coming up short in both areas.
View ArticleBad news / good news day.
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. (And who the Dickens said that first?) On the bad side Mukasey was confirmed with only 40 nays. (Which made a filibuster look impossible.) On the...
View ArticleYes, It Matters
There's a world-weary tendency among those of us who are active in politics to look at certain fights and decide that "it doesn't matter." The reasons can be that realistically the fight can't be...
View ArticleToday's letter to Gordon Smith Re: Mukasey
Ron Wyden voted appropriately on Mukasey so this letter is to Gordon Smith. If these people believe in their religions and profess to uphold the law of the land, I wonder what goes on when they chose...
View ArticleHey, Harry Reid! Is this fight fixed?
I just asked Senator Reid if the fix was in for the Michael Mukasey confirmation in the Senate. And it felt good to ask. The text of my e-mail is below the fold.
View ArticleFeinstein: How's your Mukasey now?
It didn't take long for Attorney General Mukasey to start towing the Administration line on our civil liberties. In his second day on the job, Attorney General Michael Mukasey leaped into the...
View ArticleOnly one presidential candidate now has his best friend being the US Attorney...
There are a dozen presidential candidates. But only one presidential candidate now has his best friend being the US Attorney General before and during his presidential election.
View ArticleThe Second Opinion (a parable)
Once upon a time, there was a guy named Uncle Sam. Like all of us, he had his faults--he could be a bit arrogant, selfish, shortsighted, or oblivious at times, but his heart was (mostly) in the right...
View ArticleCDP: Playing Right Into The Hands of the Republicans
"This plays right into the hands of the Republicans." "Our only goal is to elect a Democrat into the White House in 2008. Nothing should distract from that." These the main sound bites from Senator...
View ArticlePresidential Candidate Personality Cults: A Rant.
Is Obama -- whether he has "experience" "judgment" -- going to lead us to the promised land of a new kind of politics? Is Hillary Clinton the last gasp of machine "politics as usual" -- careful,...
View ArticleDems Making Mukasey Confirmation Mistake All Over Again
Albert Einstein once remarked that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well...the Senate Democrates, by that definition, must be...
View ArticleBreaking!! Prosecutor assigned to criminal probe of CIA torture tape...
BREAKING . . . Breaking, from TPM Justice Department launches criminal probe of destruction of CIA torture tapes. Late Update: AP reports that Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named an outside...
View ArticleDOJ Allows Suspect To Investigate Himself-The Suspect Is Mark Foley
A recent AP article highlighted the stiff arm that Florida law enforcement was getting from House lawyers in their attempt to access Mark Foley's computers. The Multimedia widget in the sidebar...
View ArticleMukasey and our candidates
In the great hullabaloo about whether Obama or Clinton is the more progressive, has more spine, leads more or better, or whatever, it's instructive to do a little reviewing. Mukasey is just as bad as...
View ArticleTorture: A thought experiment
We live in confusing times! You know? The Attorney General himself says maybe it's okay to torture people, maybe, sometimes. Before we get our drawers in a big twist about all this, let's try a...
View ArticleIf the Office of Legal Counsel Says It's Legal, It's Not A Crime
Read that title again because you are going to hear it a lot in the next couple years. That is the decided upon defense of the Bush Regime for whatever law they have broken. They only difference...
View ArticleAttorney General asserts that the Justice Department now makes the law.
Yep, he's gone all Judge Dredd on us. As noted by David Kurtz on TPM: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/... That I learned of thanks to DDay on Hullabaloo: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/... Basically,...
View ArticleHeckuva Job, Mukasey!
If I may interrupt the BHO/HRC catfight for a moment ... there have been extremely disturbing and eye opening testimonies by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to the Senate and House Judiciary...
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