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2007-08-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Global Jihad

#1 Dianne, if we use the inmates as bait on senatorial shark hunts.... I have no trouble seen it shut down after all the bait variants have been sampled by the sharks....

Keelhauling in 5 4 3 2 1....

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-01 00:12|| 2007-08-01 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me guess... you want them moved to a facility which your husband will build (for a fee of course)....

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-08-01 01:09|| 2007-08-01 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet another senatorial oxygen thief and a corpse like thinker who talks of war but has never marched.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-01 04:17|| 2007-08-01 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Send ALL detainees to Washington DC and San Francisco Immediately.

This woman is a crack baby. No respect intended.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-01 06:08|| 2007-08-01 06:08|| Front Page Top

#5 The solution to this ongoing problem is to take no prisoners. Except a few mortally-wounded ones for interrogation.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-01 07:34|| 2007-08-01 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 House them in the Hart Senate Building. (Hint: that's where Dianne's office is.) Leftovers can go to SF City Hall.

Posted by sofia 2007-08-01 09:02|| 2007-08-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Wait a minute. Let's give credit where credit's due. At least she recognizes we're in a war, whereas others say that's just a bumper sticker (/sarcasm).

Posted by BA 2007-08-01 09:11|| 2007-08-01 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Works for me. We'll just eject the remaining detainees over the Atlantic from the back of a C-130 at 30,000ft. Then we will shut down the senate and do the same to the traitors there.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-01 10:02|| 2007-08-01 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 What strikes me the most about this speech, is not the closing of Gitmo, but Di's "administrations attempts to hold and process detainees at Guantanamo as another example of its efforts to expand presidential authority."

Congress has fought with Bush from day one about this. I've attempted to mention these thoughts before.

Bush, since the beginning, has been in a battle with Congress over the real separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch. Cheney had watched this happening, and if I remember correctly, he would even mention it. So, when a commenter at Bill Riggio wrote this, I kept it, and so sorry I didn't also copy the name and date. If the author reads it, email me!

From day one, the Bush administration's political strategy (authored, I believe, by VP Cheney)has been to re-establish executive parity with Congress that was lost during Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations.

By aggressively asserting executive privilege, reclaiming the constitutionally exclusive role of the POTUS as CINC, etc., Bush has flexed executive powers like few before him, bringing congress to heel.

In the case of Gonzales, he has defied enormous pressure to jettison his AG- at great political cost- thus rolling back the perceived powers of Congress to influence the executive cabinet.

Brilliant strategy, stubbornly executed, with far-reaching results. The next POTUS will owe this administration a huge debt.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-08-01 10:38|| 2007-08-01 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Cheney has been preoccupied with EXPANDING executive branch power for years, since he regarded Pres. Ford as a wimp in this arena. Ford had many years in Congress and surely understood this balancing act better than Cheney ever will. And, know that the worm turns. When Hillary is Potus, with expanded powers and her own sense of righteousness and dominance, how accepting will everyone be then ?

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-08-01 10:58|| 2007-08-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 When Hillary is Potus, with expanded powers and her own sense of righteousness and dominance, how accepting will everyone be then ?

...The difference is that THEN it will be for our own good. (Sarcasm off)

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-08-01 12:23|| 2007-08-01 12:23|| Front Page Top

#12 "I remember years ago when Dianne was a prostitute at an Arabian market, she was good for it then and she's good for it now", said Ibrahim Hooper

Ha!

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-08-01 13:17|| 2007-08-01 13:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Gitmo policy arose after the issue of the status of foreign enemy combatants who were captured in the "failed state of Aghanistan" was put before the DOJ. It was felt proper to hold them under military law, and under secure conditions. There is no legal obligation to put them in US federal penitentiaries because they didn't violate US laws on US soil.

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-01 13:57|| 2007-08-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Name a single opponent we've fought since May, 1945 who has honored the rights of American prisoners of war. Name a single one.

Hell, even our WWII foes didn't treat American POWs properly. The dramatic decline since then is adequate reason to hold all hostiles in any damned way we please. While we may be using military force to fight terrorism, that does not confer any military status upon the terrorists. This one simple fact seems to elude nearly everyone. It also poses a more important question.

Isn't it time we change our prosecutorial doctrine with respect to fighting terrorism? There should be a shift away from strictly overt military action over to covert targeted assassinations of Islam's clerical aristocracy and the major players in global terror. No extra prisoners to pose any added legal difficulties and far more bang for the buck, so to speak.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-01 14:57|| 2007-08-01 14:57|| Front Page Top

#15 the San Francisco Chronical

That's the wrong spelling, Khalid, but it is an accurate summation...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-01 14:59|| 2007-08-01 14:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Fill Guantanamo with Senators says pissed off Citizen.

Posted by jds 2007-08-01 16:40|| 2007-08-01 16:40|| Front Page Top

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