Flash: Mukasey clears Judiciary panel
Update 11:28am Eastern. Schumer just completed his statement: “I believe Mukasey will remove the stench from the Justice Department and I believe we should give him the chance to do so…”
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Vote was 11-8. All nine Republicans plus Dems Schumer and Feinstein approved.
Teddy Kennedy just whined before the panel about the “reckless disregard of the rule of law.”
Seriously.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
Update 10:57am Eastern. Sen Feinstein just gave her statement supporting Mukasey and asserting her belief that he will be an independent breath of fresh air at Justice.
Code Pinkos give their unsolicited opinion:
Wire/MSM coverage: Reuters, USAT, AP
I mentioned earlier this morning that anti-Mukasey zealots held a waterboarding ceremony outside the Justice Department yesterday.
Here’s a photo.
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He’s just a poor confused man and was talking about his driving ability.
This is good news … now how long before we get a vote on the floor of the Senate?
As for Kennedy … he was on his nephews drugs which added to further confusion and further impaired driving ability than usual …
Mary Jo still cannot be reached for comment.
But in all seriousness, why does this stuff take so much time in committee? Why not just verify the appointee is legally eligible to serve, then send him/her to the floor for a vote?
Oh, I remember. Senators need to justify face time on C-SPAN.
Jerks!
Finally!
Congressional Dems - who needs em’?
We should offer white flags for the Democraps. Another case of them making a big stink but losing in the end….booo hooo
Why are the pinko’s still allowed in the building!!!????
soon one of them is completely going to snap and hurt someone. argh!!!!
KEEP THEM OUT!!!
Who said this? Was it:
1. Hillary Clinton, after discovering that Bill actually was a horndog?
2. Maryjo Kopechne, in upwards to 20 minutes after Ted Kennedy left her to die?
3. Any one of the 85 million Americans aborted since Federal legalization?
4. Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, 26, an Iranian-American actor from Maryland, who pretended he was being water boarded outside of the U.S. Senate yesterday?
Answer: Laughingly, it’s #4…
If that is the extent of water board torture, then sadly, I have been more harshly tortured as a young boy…having repeatedly responded to a good joke while drinking a tall glass of milk at the same time…or all the times my older brother “sadistically” dunked my head while playing Marco Polo.
AJ,
Two reasons:
1. Comic relief
2. A barometer. If Pinko’s hate the idea – go with it.
Pinko’s are cowards. The know not to use force as force will be their end!
There was a news clip this am on fnc basically putting forth a “deal”
spectre made with Mukasey to support
an upcomming senate legislation to
offically make it illegal to “waterboard”.. conclusion… when spectres around…be worried…very worried.
Over the years I have come to believe that the good people of MA are smarter than we give them credit for. They re-elect Kennedy and Kerry over and over. I think the reason is because when Congress is in session, their mothers, sisters and daughters are safe. As for Kerry, the general IQ is significantly raised…
yes, after looking at the picture of waterboarding it doesn’t look like torture to me, cause i distinctly remember getting that feeling while swimming in our pool a few times as a child from my older brother.
also, that was a big mistake giving people a visual. it doesn’t have the ‘look’ of torture. and, once again they have to hire an actor to experience it for the crowd. giving people a visual means those of the people with a fair amount of reasoning can decide for themselves.
so if pinkos give us an example of ‘torture’ doesn’t that mean that it really isn’t that bad or why proivde a ‘live’example. surely, the act itself if truly horrific should not have been committed? I MEAN IT IS TORTURE…. right? what were they thinking? it is wrong for our soldiers or cia to do waterboarding cause it is torture. and to prove it we are going to waterboard this actor!! where is the logic or reason it that? oh.. right.. were talking about code pinko’s and the libs..
I don’t know the specifics of waterboarding, but what I hear is iffy at best. But in the end its use was limited to three times before 2003, and hasn’t been used since. That from the CIA issued last week.
say it isn’t so…..
let’s hope he had his fingers crossed or doesn’t really believe that he has to keep this agreement? geesh….
Well, if our soldiers were half as rabid as the protestors were during their waterboarding event, I would say I do not blame people for not liking waterboarding. There are no such rabid soldiers (notwithstanding TNR).
Thanks for the link to the pictures. I can hardly wait for the movie.
Doesn’t seem like waterboarding can be called torture is these idiots are willing to do it to themsevles and their friends. Would they agree to have their fingernails pulled out or have their heads put in vices like we’ve seen in Al Qaeda manuel? I’m guessing no.
…and how are these pinkos still allowed to be at these hearings? You’d think that whomever is inviting them would get at least some bad P.R. for causing these hearing to be continually disrupted.
I assume that the one demonstrating the water boarding was OK and survived without permanat harm. It just prooves that it is not torture. If you want a clue into what torture is, read “When Hell was in Session” by Jeremiah Denton.
If “waterboarding” was truly torture, then (1) why would anyone voluntarily go through it; and (2) why haven’t the “torturers” been arrested, and charged with the crime of torture?
Let’s substitute a real act of torture, such as pulling out fingernails, or shoving bamboo splinters under the fingernails, and get volunteers to under-go that…what, no takers?
Taylork…you beat me to it! Sorry.
I’ve wondered the motivation behind the lefts objection to Mukasey as AG and the demand that he declare waterboarding illegal. I think I’ve come to a logical conclusion as to why the hysteria.
Simply put, if he declares waterboarding illegal the democrats could then introduce impeachment proceedings against the president.
Just think! The brand new AG declares waterboarding illegal. The president is accused of waterboarding terrorists. The new AG has just accused the President of the United States of committing an illegal act. What more could the moonbats ask for?
That’s just my opinion.
Doesn’t the sheer fact that this “actor” got up and made a statement to the press sort of, oh… I dunno… Diminish their stupid argument just a teensy bit??!
asshats
Okay — I guess my earlier post had a word that the filters did not like. What I said (without the bad word) was:
sorry — guess “the word” was not as bad as I thought! Good to know.
BrianNY you said:
“I have been more harshly tortured as a young boy…having repeatedly responded to a good joke while drinking a tall glass of milk at the same time…or all the times my older brother “sadistically” dunked my head while playing Marco Polo.”
Did we have the same bro’? ;-). I know that today he’d dive on a grenade to save me, and I him. But that does not take away some of the painful memories he and I endure. Peace to you.
BrianNY clearly enjoyed a privileged upbringing. Growing up in California, my cousins typically waited for the A&W Root Beer or RC Cola before letting fly with the hilarity. That, my friend, is torture.
I don’t trust him regarding his answer on waterboarding. As a Christian nation, we must take a firm stance against the unAmerican practice of torture. I fear we are on the wrong track as a nation. I will pray for Mr. Mukasey.
The knuckleheads in the picture are doing the water boarding all wrong. In USAF Survival School it was explained the object of torture (usually a downed American Airman) was placed on a board with their legs elevated over their head (about a 450 degree angle) with a wet piece of cloth over your mouth and nose and then you were doused with water. Ask John McCain he could probably help them out and share with these losers how his arms were pulled behind his back until his elbows meet (usually resulted in dislocating the shoulders) tied together and then you were lifted up from a hook in the ceiling all the way to the top and then dropped on the pavement floor (a real favorite at the Hanoi Hilton). These spoiled little lunatics need a real lesson in what it’s like to be tortured. I volunteer to help them!
We are on the wrong track as a nation because we are allowing the media to elevate drug addicted disease-ridden Lefties on how to manage this war and the fight against radical Islamic fascism.
I wonder how the US government decided that every captive jihadi had intelligence value.
Can you imagine if it was dealt with the same way on Okinawa, Iwo, or the Battle of the Bulge?
In those scenarios, the leftovers and wounded received a bullet or flamethrower blast.
We’ve come a long way. Ya, right.
I feel that countries that condone torture are terrorist states.
The more the Moon Loons believe they understand about the US government’s war making power the more they become confused about what to do with the information they don’t have.
Kinda like watching dogs chase their tails or try humping the cat.
Define torture.
I know it when I see it.
Uhhhhh-huh.
I think waterboarding is torture, for instance.
I think watching Geraldo Rivera or Alan Colmes is torture.
lolz
How is it possible for the Dems to control both the House and the Senate, and still be so incapable of getting their way on ANYTHING?!?
It’s unbelieveable. Granted, the ‘pubs have their serious issues too. . .but jeez.
Next on the list of things that Dems want that won’t get done. Impeachment.
On that note, the vote was 218-194 against tabling, so the bill goes to the Judiciary committee, effectively kills the bill. It will sit there and gather moss. So it is indeed something else the Dems didn’t get done. LMAO.