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2009-01-16 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Beavis 2009-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 No...being trapped in a burning building that is about to collapse and deciding whether to burn alive or jump to your death - that is torture.

Posted by Zebulon Thrains9999 2009-01-16 00:25|| 2009-01-16 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone With A Clue: Having to deal with nitwits like Holder or Leahy in public life is torture.

Oh, and BTW, the argument made by Bush administration officials that the president's power in an a national emergency overrode constitutional restrictions is classic (everyday) distortion. Such an "argument" was never advanced, of course. The president's inherent constitutional duties and powers WRT national security were cited, so far successfully, as justification for a very few narrowly targeted actions.

But what are facts and logic in the degraded, delusional wasteland once known as America?

Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-16 00:45|| 2009-01-16 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 No, waterboarding is a training technique.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-01-16 01:02|| 2009-01-16 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ...in what amounts to a dramatic reversal of the Justice Department's policy under President Bush.

I wasn't aware that a nominee for AG is able to change a policy of a department he's not yet in charge of. Fascinating...

Posted by Raj 2009-01-16 08:13|| 2009-01-16 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 "The Supreme Court has spoken," Holder said. "That is now the law of the land."

It always was asshole. What a safe and terrible answer.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-16 08:42|| 2009-01-16 08:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "The Supreme Court has spoken," Holder said. "That is now the law of the land."

Dred Scott, Plessy?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-01-16 09:37|| 2009-01-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Waterboarding is not torture. Listening to the blatherings, deliberations, and posturing of Congress is torture. Listening to Yoko Ono sing is torture.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-01-16 15:55|| 2009-01-16 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Listening to or having my life on earth impacted by the likes of Reid, Pelois, Franks, Biden, Obama and his cadre of Chicago and Hollywoodistan donks, all fall into my personal definition of torture.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-16 16:02|| 2009-01-16 16:02|| Front Page Top

#9 tortured logic...

Posted by Abu do you love 2009-01-16 16:12|| 2009-01-16 16:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Bring out the comfy chair!!!

Posted by Iblis 2009-01-16 17:06|| 2009-01-16 17:06|| Front Page Top

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