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Friday, January 23, 2009

Remember when Republicans were the "Law and Order" party?
Posted by Jill | 11:46 PM
Now I guess "Law and Order" only refers to a TV show starring Fred Thompson. Now they practically want to codify the IOKIYAR Rule into law:
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a former U.S. Attorney and Attorney General for Rhode Island, today sharply criticized the argument some Republican members of the Committee are making for delaying a vote on the nomination of Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder:

"Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have asked Eric Holder to make a commitment, before he is even confirmed, that he will not prosecute any Bush Administration officials for their involvement in acts of torture during the last administration.

"Anyone familiar with the criminal justice system - especially those with experience as prosecutors or judges - should know that a prosecutor should make no determination about who to prosecute before he or she has all the facts, and particularly not in response to legislative pressure.

"After all we have recently been through at the Department of Justice, I would hope and expect that upon calm reflection, no one on our Committee would expect the Attorney General of the United States to make prosecutive decisions based on legislative pressure."


There go what few specks of moral authority the Bigoted Old Southern White Hypocritical Man Party had left.

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Blogger D. said...
"There go what few specks of moral authority the Bigoted Old Southern White Hypocritical Man Party had left."

Had they any? Without using an electron microscope?

Hold me! I think an aphorism is coming...

Oh. "Republicans speaking of moral authority have neither."

(Well, actually that could apply to politicians as a class, but most of them don't try to invoke "values." [Because those who do seem to come to disastrous ends, sooner or later.])
1/24/09, 1:09 AM  
Blogger Rhode Island Rules said...
Yay Sheldon! My Senator.

This is what will start to turn things around. Call these people out in public, shame them, call them on the carpet on meet the press and make them explain to the American people why they are impeding progress.

Why do you want to risk the economy imploding? Why do you want to cut unemployment help at a time when so many are being thrown out of work? Why do you want to cut off access to health care for children? Don't you care about your fellow Americans? Don't you love your country? Do to them what they have done to the rest of us these crappy last 30 years! But don't let them wriggle out of it, make them explain!

Put Eric Cantor (R-VA) under the microscope and ask him why he is sooo opposed to releasing the rest of the TARP money when his wife is employed at a PRIVATE BANK that received a windfall in taxpayer money through it!
1/24/09, 6:08 PM  
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