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January 23, 2009 04:31 PM UTC
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I don’t know how many of you saw Rep Doug “Candy-Ass” Lamborn on 9News last night, but he sounded like a complete wuss when it comes to terrorist detainees being sent to SuperMax.
He wasn’t alone – now that the rest of the US has to step up and take some risks in fighting the war on terror, every Repub in Congress is turning into a scared little kid.
“Oh, we don’t want the detainees here…they’re scary! They might say boo to me!”
These are same bunch of douchbags that threw out some super-heroic rhetoric when it came time to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. They kept up the stupidity by claiming the other party wanted the terrorists, and that anything was ok fighting this war.
Now it’s time for some (minor) risk and sacrifice on the part of the citizens of the US, and these pussies in the GOP are whining like babies that they don’t want the detainees in “their district/state.”
Tough shit – this is their mess, and now the President is cleaning it up. Gitmo is going, and in order to fairly prosecute the terrorist (and let the innocent go) we need to it in the US at a Military Base.
So shut the fuck up and suck it up – stop whining and support the effort so we can prosecute the bad guys.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
it doesn’t say who won, though.
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…we spied on ordinary Americans, we tossed due process out the window to make us feel “safe,” and we let the Deserter President walk out of the White House instead of dragging him away in shackles.
Looks like a sweep for the Terrorists…
like a third world country with nukes!
Well, at least we can still afford $500B a year for a military.
Your boy DID fail. As in, like probably no other president, ever. As in, horribly.
Oboma will not bat 1000. And yet I know that you will pick on the relatively minor failures that he will have and pretend that those are his legacy.
You are a total asshole (like your draft dodging warts).
I’m sure you’ll have plenty to criticize in the next eight years!
death on another 4,000 soldiers, injuries on 30,000 more, and for the complete collapse of our economy.
Sure parsing, pick on Rush. That poor bastard doesn’t even have a real name (too ugly for a mother to name, that’s how the nurses describe her pushing him out of the room after delivery).
http://www.antiwar.com/casualt…
Sort of like our unemployment stats.
Something like if a soldier doesn’t die within a day, or actually in Iraq, they aren’t counted. I know I don’t have that exactly correct, but that’s the thrust of it.
That is the honest to god email we got from one of our employees this morning.
Better get our legislators on that right away.
in an unscrupulous tarantula mill?
Probably better to catch it sooner rather than later. Once it really has a chance to explore the house, you never know when or where it’s going to turn up!
I’m pretty much indifferent to the whole abortion thing, is this really a priority? Even DeGette isn’t horribly worried about repealing the Hyde Amendment.
On the bright side, this will make for some ugly debates.
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because it really gagged family planning. You couldn’t even refer someone to a place that even counseled abortion, regardless of whether that’s what you were seeking. They talked about it on NPR yesterday.
Nonetheless it will probably fire up the anti choice crowd a bit. Might as well do it as far from the next election as you can.
Good point. Well said, Ari. There is much more to this issue than initially meets the eye.
The issue’s pretty cut and dry.
I still don’t understand why this was a priority. Seems like mostly a distraction to me. Ari’s election comment (probably on track) notwithstanding this could have been handled legislatively when things calm down a bit.
which can only be repealed by another executive order, I think.
As for the urgency, if you wait too long for decent family planning options, you get a baby.
this has been seriously interfering with making safe effective birth control available. Fewer low income families having more children than they can afford, fewer women with health problems risking dangerous pregnancies and fewer abortions are all worthy high priority goals. This is a quick step in support of those goals.
Hyde Amendment prohibits direct federal funding of abortion. It is legislation and can only be “repealed” by Congressional action, not Presidential. The Supreme Court could find the legislation unconstitutional, but that is unlikely. The Hyde Amendment is over thirty years old.
BC is correct about the impact of the “gag rule.”
takes the time and attention that signing your name does. It doesn’t require priority status.
This particular executive order has been a political football for decades, with each incoming Republican president (re-)instituting it, and each incoming Democratic president repealing it. Just one of many reasons I vote Democrat.
It’s Kirsten Gillibrand.
So now with three Senators to replace, three different Democratic governors have picked three completely unknown people. At least Gillibrand’s won an election recently, though.
She’s been elected twice to a tough House district that sports 60+% Republican registered voters. She’s from upstate, which pleases quite a few folks and she’s received the endorsement of the NRA. She’s a Blue dog Dem and pretty well known inside New York state for her views.
She’s known in her district and known to political junkies, but she’s far from a household name even in New York state. Certainly nobody knew who she was before 2006, unlike Cuomo.
not a celebrity with an over-developed sense of entitlement.
Wait, who were you thinking of?
We can’t have Ed Perlmutter or John Salazar named to the Senate because of the possible vulnerability of their House seats, but in New York it is okay to name someone who represents a really vulnerable House seat.
60+% registered Republican??????
CD7 in Colorado is slightly more Democratic and CD3 is only slightly more Republican, but they are too vulnerable to risk naming an incumbent who wins the district.
Okay…….
The DCCC? DSCC? Random bloggers? MotR?
According to the Cook PVI, Gillibrand’s district is slightly less repub than Salazar’s. Registration numbers are one thing, but the way voters actually vote is another.
voter registration edge for Republicans in Colorado CD3. That is way less than the 60+% cited in the post above.
My point is that the argument made by numerous people in opposition to either Perlmutter or Salazar was that it risked losing either of those seats if the either incumbent wasn’t running.
I for one believed that either seat could have been held by the right Democrat, but that was certainly not the prevelant belief on this board or elsewhere.
So my post just noted that it is ironic that a seat that appears to be much more vulnerable (from the registration figures) than either of the Colorado seats is being vacated by the Dem that has held it for two elections to go to the Senate and that is okay but the same case in Colorado was not okay.
I believe I’ve seen it quoted as 54%.
NY-20 is a weird district, encompassing a large swath of virtual no-man’s land along the Vermont-Massachusetts border, missing Albany, Troy, and Poughkeepsie, and taking in parts of the Catskills and Adirondacks (including Lake Placid).
I don’t know much about it, but I doubt it has the same number of “rabid” Republicans as some of the more Western parts of the state. In that corridor, it’s going to be more a mix of Vermont-style conservatives and business Republicans. The party should be able to find another Democrat who will fit the district…
But what happens in New York doesn’t have a damned thing to do with what happens in Colorado.
I don’t begrudge you your feelings, but don’t even begin to try comparing New York politics to Colorado politics.
The only people to argue with here are the two Governors. If you ask me, neither made a choice that makes a lot of sense.