Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and AIPAC - the end of American democracy?
THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN!
THE TREACHEROUS 'Democratic' Senators GUT OPPOSITION to the Bush-Cheney administration AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, because the AIPAC (Israel-American Jewish) lobby loves having the US military in the Mideast waging wars and killing people.
In this case, senators CHARLES SCHUMER and DIANNE FEINSTEIN pick up the "PRO TORTURE, PRO WAR" baton from Senator Joe Lieberman. AS we here at DemNation have PREDICTED, AT EVERY CRITICAL OPPORTUNITY, another AIPAC SENATOR comes out of the woodwork to GUT the building OPPOSITION to Bush-Cheney abuses of power, and as usual, the Democrat 'LEADERSHIP' falls right in line, PRETENDING that they are PUTTING UP an OPPPOSITON FIGHT to Bush co, while they know damn well they are MERELY GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS of opposition, BUT ARE ACTUALLY _ENABLING_ Bush Co policies, in this case ILLEGAL SPYING, TORTURE, and POLITICIZATION OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN ADVANCE OF the 2008 elections.
THIS IS SHEER TREACHERY on a world-class scale, on the part of SCHUMER, FEINSTEIN, and America's treacherous, craven, ENABLING Democrat Party.... ENABLING, that is, the Bush-Cheney administration to TRASH THE US CONSTITUTION,TORTURE, arrest, and intimidate anyone they please, and STEAL YET ANOTHER ELECTION.
THE TREACHEROUS AIPAC SENATORS (and the entire Democrat 'leadership') GIVE Mr. BUSH WHAT HE WANTS - even as they PRETEND to offer an opposition party.
SHEER TREACHERY!
MORE on Schumer's "ISRAEL uber America" bias...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/benchmarking-schumer-on-j_b_70910.html
Two Democratic Senators involved in that part of the Bolton battle -- one on the Foreign Relations Committee and one not -- told me personally that Senator Schumer called them to say "a vote against Bolton is a vote against Israel."
Well, who does Schumer work for? The United States or Israel? And how ridiculous is that statement anyway?! Democrats and Republicans both have been excellent stewards of the US-Israel relationship in the United Nations.
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MORE on Schumer's COMPLICITY with the CORRUPTION of JUSTICE in America under Bush: In announcing his intention to confirm Mukasey for AG, Schumer PRETENDS NOT TO NOTICE that White House is WITHHOLDING, CENSORING, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE on 600 pages of ABRAMOFF DOCUMENTS, lobbyist JACK ABRAMOFF _CONVICTED OF BRIBERY_ and CORRUPTION, SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER an ENABLER of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE in a CRIMINAL CONVICTION full accounting to the American people!
CORRUPTION, THY NAME IS CHARLES SCHUMER!
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MORE on Schumer, Feinstein's PLAYING ALONG with BUSH CORRUPTION of justice!
White House Withholds 600 Pages of Abramoff Documents.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/white-house-withholds-600-pages-of-abramoff-docs/
Today, House Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding and requested that the administration hand over more than 600 pages of documents relating to the White House’s activities with fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff. From Waxman’s letter
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MORE on Feinstein, Pelosi's WHITEWASHING Bush-Cheney-Rove CORRUPTION of Justice Department!! The Bush Dept. of Justice is a snake-pit of corruption, up to and including possibly FRAUDULENT PROSECUTIONS against Democratic activists and candidates in close elections; i.e. USING the US Justice Department as a MAFIA ENFORCEMENT RACKET to steal elections!!
GOP lawyer ties Rove to Siegelman case
THE HILL Thu Oct 11, 2007
96% Average Credibility
http://www.newsique.com/politics/gop_lawyer_ties_rove_to_siegelma/
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges.
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Mukasey Wins Support from Key Senators
NPR.org, November 2, 2007 ·
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15883844
President Bush on Friday kept up a spirited defense of Michael Mukasey's nomination, saying "he's plenty qualified to be attorney general" just after landing in Columbia, S.C. The president was helping to raise money for the re-election of Sen. Lindsey Graham (left) and to make a speech about the war against terrorism. AP
NPR.org, November 2, 2007 · Two key Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), say they will support Judge Michael Mukasey to be the next attorney general. That makes Mukasey's confirmation almost certain.
His confirmation has been in doubt the past few days, and looked particularly doomed Friday after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said he'd join some of his Democratic colleagues in voting "no" on Mukasey.
Sens. Schumer and Feinstein announced their support for Mukasey shortly after, saying the Justice Department is in desperate need of effective leadership.
The biggest snag for Mukasey was his refusal to categorically define waterboarding as torture. Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Mukasey has said he finds it personally repugnant, but he would not say it's illegal.
That caused Leahy to announce his opposition to the nominee Friday. "No American should need a classified briefing to determine whether waterboarding is torture," Leahy said.
"I like Michael Mukasey. I wish that I could support his nomination. But I cannot," Leahy said. "America needs to be certain and confident of the bedrock principle — deeply embedded in our laws and our values — that no one, not even the president, is above the law."
Leahy's chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee gives him considerable power to influence the outcome of the vote. But with the support of Sens. Schumer and Feinstein, Mukasey's confirmation is almost certain.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Tuesday, after which it will go to the full Senate.
Schumer has taken credit for getting Mukasey's name before President Bush as an acceptable nominee after the troubled tenure of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
But declining support among the panel's Democrats threatened to prevent Mukasey's nomination from making it to the full Senate for a vote. Four other Democrats on Leahy's committee have already said they will not support the former judge.
On Thursday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), also a member of the Judiciary Committee, said he would vote against Mukasey.
Kennedy said Mukasey's unwillingness to equate the interrogation practice of waterboarding with torture increases the chances that it will be used against U.S. troops.
Meanwhile, President Bush on Friday kept up a spirited defense of Mukasey's nomination.
"He's a good man. He's a fair man. He's an independent man and he's plenty qualified to be attorney general," Bush said of Mukasey, just after landing in Columbia, S.C.
It was the second day in a row that Bush has pleaded with senators to approve the man he chose to succeed Gonzales as the nation's top law enforcement official.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a member of the Judiciary Committee who is backing the embattled judge, joined Bush on the airport tarmac for the president's statement. The president was in South Carolina to help raise money for Graham's re-election and make a speech about the war against terrorism.
A day earlier, Bush warned that the Justice Department would go without a leader in a time of war if Democrats thwarted Mukasey.
Bush said Thursday that if the Judiciary Committee were to block Mukasey because of his noncommittal stance on waterboarding, it would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general.
There is a way for Mukasey to get a full Senate vote even if committee Democrats unite in opposing him. The Senate Judiciary Committee could agree to advance the nomination with "no recommendation," allowing Mukasey the chance to be confirmed by a majority of the 100-member Senate. Several vote-counters in each party have said Mukasey probably would get 70 "yes" votes in such a scenario.
From NPR reports and The Associated Press
