What Norah Ephron (!) said:
Nonetheless, when I read on Friday that Schumer had decided to support Michael Mukasey for attorney general, thus making Mukasey's confirmation by the Senate inevitable, my heart sank. I read his justification of his vote. He said that Mukasey was the best we could hope for from this administration. He said the Justice Department needed to be rebuilt. He said that no nominee for attorney general was ever going to come out against waterboarding, and that Mukasey at least promised to follow the law if (somehow) the Senate passed an anti-waterboarding law (that survived a Bush veto). It's probably unfair to blame Schumer entirely for this; after all, Dianne Feinstein made the same decision. And more than half the Democrats in the Senate are apparently prepared to vote for Mukasey.
But here's what they should do instead:
Reject Mukasey.
Make Bush send up another nominee.
Reject that nominee if he won't take a position on waterboarding.
And just keep on doing it.
Because it's the right thing to do. Because waterboarding is torture. Because we are torturing people and it has to stop, and it will never stop unless the Democrats make it stop.
And forget about the Justice Department. No one will fix the Justice Department until there's a new president.
Bingo.
Don't fucking decide in advance of anything Bush does that Mukasey's the best you can do for us. Throw Mukasey back in the pond, and make Bush try again. And make him try again, and again, and again. So Broderella clutches his pearls and the wingers have pitch a hissy hit. So fucking what? Do it!
If not now, when?
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I wholeheartedly agree with Nora...
...but unfortunately this is what passes for a Democratic politician these days. At least in some quarters. And this is also what a DLC-DINO
considers "the right thing to do."
Besides, I knew this chump would get a pass since DiFi is on the committee. Because she hates Democrats and loves her some racist, homophobic, Republican judges. She'd probably approve Bimbough or O'Lielly for a post at the FCC.
And yet I must thank them both. Because its DINO
's like these folks that made me into the independent I am today....
And Probably Not Even Then
And forget about the Justice Department. No one will fix the Justice Department until there’s a new president.
The damage is done. The Dems, having seen just what you can get away with with a complacent, complicit Congress (why does anyone think a Dem majority will be more friendly to the People than the gops have been?) and what advantages can be had from the corruption/politicization of DoJ, i do not see any new president (except mebbe DK) actually giving up any of the power the Bushevik cabal has stolen.
Me? A Quick Study, But A Slow Learner
Me? A Quick Study, But A Slow Learner
Screams from unexpected quarters
That's nice, maybe she can put some pressure on somewhere I can't, all welcome. Hearing David Rivkin this a.m. on CSpan claiming that the DoJ just always was politicized made me scream and run out of the room to keep from violence toward an innocent tv set.
Ruth
Ruth
Rivkin's bio
Heh:
Nice distinction between "legal" and "policy," what?
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