Our vainglorious Senate Democrats TALK TOUGH, but time after time after time, they reveal themselves as not being qualified to shine Senator JESSE HELMS' shoes, the dictatorial demagogue senator who ran the SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE as his personal feifdom, and who could KILL Democratic NOMINATIONS before breakfast as effortlessly as eating a bite of toast or putting that nomination 'in his pocket' never to see the light of day. (As he did to fellow REPUBLICAN Gov. William Weld, who President Clinton had nominated to be Ambassador to Mexico, but whose nomination never saw the light of committee hearing, thanks to the autocratic Helms.)
WHY don't the Democrats get some of their staffers to COMPILE A LIST of DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES who have been BLOCKED BY Republican filibusters and pocket (committee) vetoes? WHY dont't the Dems DEMAND that the network news morons (hired flunkies of the media moguls) AIR SUCH A LIST when they discuss the Mukasy nomination?
Because the Senate Democrats are ALL TALK and LITTLE ACTION, if not outright COMPLICIT in the Republican efforts to make democracy subservient to K St. corruption. The Democrat Senators need to KILL the Mukasy pro-torture nomination to Attorney General in the Senate, and show SOME RESULTS for being the MAJORITY PARTY, instead of continually and repeatedly BOWING DOWN to the Bush-Cheney White House's serial abuses of power (if not High Crimes & Misdemeanors.
The Democrats NEED TO SHOW SOME FIGHT, and STOP CONFIRMING such no-account miscreants as our WHINING Supreme Court 'Justice' Clarence Thomas, who despite his LIFETIME APPOINTMENT TO THE US SUPREME COURT, snivels that his Yale law degree (which made his legal career possible) "isn't worth 15 cents." (Because Thomas was hoping to get a huge-dollar career at a big, prominent law firm straight out of Yale, and he never got such an offer.)
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Ending Torture And Putting Mukasey Out Of His Misery
by Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
October 31, 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/ending-torture-and-puttin_b_70538.html
It's one thing to vote against a torture enabler only to see that torture enabler confirmed anyway, but it's another thing to actually kill the nomination.
Who among the Senate Democrats is willing to end Michael Mukasey's nomination and confirmation process right here and now? Outright block it -- filibuster it -- stop it in committee or on the floor when (and if) it comes up for a full senate vote.
Some of the Democrats, including most recently Senator Clinton, have declared their intention to vote against Mukasey for attorney general. That's awesome, but so what. Many of the very same Democrats we're hearing from this week also voted against Alberto Gonzales. But Gonzales was confirmed despite widespread protest. And the president won the day... anyway. But at least they voted against Gonzales. That shut the president right the fuck up, didn't it?
And now, almost three years after voting to confirm the Gonzales Disaster for attorney general, we're staring down the barrel -- or in this case, the water jug -- of another attorney general who obfuscates the truth about torture, and who, once confirmed, will continue to subversively retain America's franchise of torture hostels.
For too many years now, we've watched the president in plain sight, and despite his reputation in certain media circles for "knowing where he stands," dance around both the English language and the rule of law in order to justify torture.
We've watched his administration erode any remaining dignity and honor our nation possessed.
We've watched this regime affirm many of our conspiratorial suspicions about the demons lurking in America's citadels.
We've watched them transform a decade of peace followed by a brief era of world unity into a dark age of fear, distrust, paranoia, hatred and corruption.....
