Thursday, September 14, 2006
Senate Panel respects the law
Under the banner "Senate Panel Defies Bush on Detainee Bill" the NY Times reports that several GOP senators have joined with their Democratic colleagues in upholding the rule of law regarding US detainees of undetermined guilt.
His pitiful remarks that he seeks "legal clarity" ignore the fact that the courts have already clarified the situation. Our Dear Embattled Leader is not above our law, he must obey it.
Hours after Mr. Bush huddled with House Republicans, he suffered a defeat on the other side of the Capitol, as the Senate Armed Services Committee endorsed legislation that would give suspected terrorists more legal protections than the president desires.As is his wont, Our Dear Embattled Leader then tried to smear these principled men and women by suggesting that they are not concerned with protecting the US. In fact, they are more concerned about that goal than ODEL and all his supporters. Without the rule of law, we will be condemned to stand with the Osamas and Saddams of this world, who see nothing wrong with harming anybody they don't like whenever they please. Poor old ODEL probably has daydreams of those halcyon days of his youth when he blew up frogs with firecrackers. I wonder if he has the "interrogations" filmed for his and Uncle Dick's enjoyment.
Four of the panel’s 13 Republicans joined all 11 Democrats in rejecting Mr. Bush’s proposal to keep defendants from seeing classified evidence against them. The vote came a day after the House Armed Services Committee adopted a measure that more closely parallels what the president wants.
His pitiful remarks that he seeks "legal clarity" ignore the fact that the courts have already clarified the situation. Our Dear Embattled Leader is not above our law, he must obey it.
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