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| Cheney's Revenge |
| 2010-02-10 |
| OK, legacy media, here's a scoop for you . . . . Dick Cheney is not the most popular of politicians, but when he offered a harsh assessment of the Obama Administration's approach to terrorism last May, his criticism stung--so much that the President gave a speech the same day that was widely seen as a direct response. Though neither man would admit it, eight months later political and security realities are forcing Mr. Obama's antiterror policies ever-closer to the former Vice President's. In fact, the President's changes in antiterror policy have never been as dramatic as he or his critics have advertised. His supporters on the left have repeatedly howled when the Justice Department quietly went to court and offered the same legal arguments the Bush Administration made, among them that the President has the power to detain enemy combatants indefinitely without charge. He has also ramped up drone strikes against al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #4 Some highlights from this lawyer's career: - annual hours billed as a junior associate in Chicago: ca. 1,300 (average for junior associates at major firms: 2,000) - cases tried: zero - biggest victory: forcing Chicago Housing Authority to remove asbestos from one of its tenements. - biggest client represented: ACORN - law review articles produced while Editor: zero - pieces of legal scholarship authored: zero - constitutional law cases tried while a part-time adjunct Con Law prof: zero |
| Posted by: lex 2010-02-10 16:04 |
| #3 Nah, he's not a lawyer - just a law school graduate. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-02-10 14:00 |
| #2 He's a lawyer. He's used to theory and winning verbal arguments, and a higher authority takes care of implementing the details, right or wrong. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-10 10:57 |
| #1 Rub his face in it. Obama's just not up to the job. His entire Presidency is going to be like this. No results. Just mouth...four long painful drooling years of mouth.And then we get to see him outathere and someone competent to clean up his slobbering mess. What a total mistake America made with this pathetic unqualified guy. |
| Posted by: Georgiaboy 2010-02-10 09:35 |