Eric Holder Scares the Crap out of Rethugs with Three Little Words

Waterboarding.  Is.  Torture.

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Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas)* this afternoon led the Republican charge to delay Holder’s confirmation vote  before the Senate Judiciary Committee for at least a week.  His reason:

Cornyn said he was concerned about Holder’s definition of waterboarding as illegal torture at his confirmation hearing last week.

Cornyn also expressed concern that Holder’s view of the issue could open intelligence officials to prosecution. Intelligence officials used what they called “enhanced interrogation” during the Bush administration to obtain information about national security threats.

Intelligence officials?  Possibly that’s his main concern.  But I suspect he’s a lot more worried about people who were farther up the chain of command.

Cornyn has been double teaming with Arlen Specter to try and derail Holder’s nomination if possible, to the point of Specter absurdly comparing Holder unfavorably to Alberto Gonzales (!!!!) and dredging up the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich.

Given the Democratic majority and the prevailing approval by the American public of Holder’s position on torture, not to mention his stated intention to remove politics from the Justice Department and bring back the rule of law, Holder will eventually be confirmed.  But the Repubs aren’t happy about it.  Or should I say they’re crapping their pants about it?

*  Yes, that John Cornyn, the one who needlessly delayed Hillary’s confirmation before the full Senate by a day apparently just for . . . spite!

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That’s big John, my senator.  You think we heard a word out of him during the last 6 years?  Nope, he was the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil Senatemonkey.  Now he opens his mouth.

Well, the Republicans may be worried about Holder fucking them over, but I’m sure they never had to worry about the Obama’s fisting them, as this FOX News talking head explains so clearly.

http://wonkette.com/tag/pt-oh-good-heavens

Oh good mooga booga.

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 01/21/09 at 08:34 PM

Wow, Humboldt I learned a new term today.  One I’m not sure I wanted to know!

Mar, it’s amazing some of the things you can pick up reading the Internet.

Thank goodness for antibiotics.

On the official Internet spit-take-liquid-spewed-at-screen-Internet-trope-scale, I rate the Wonkette thread as four out of four coffee cups.

Gerry Brown is still one kick-ass dude BTW ...

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today renewed his call for the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8 because it deprives people of the right to marry—an aspect of liberty that the Supreme Court has concluded is guaranteed by the California Constitution.

“The amendment process cannot be used by a bare majority to strip away the fundamental and inalienable rights of a protected minority without a compelling justification,” Attorney General Brown said. “Since there is no compelling justification, Proposition 8 must be stricken.”

Attorney General Brown today responded to the 63 “Friend of the Court” briefs that were filed last week with the California Supreme Court. Brown contends that the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights enshrined in article I, section 1 of the California Constitution without compelling justification. The court found in the In re Marriage Cases that no such compelling justification exists. Accordingly, Proposition 8 must be stricken.

Brown also takes on the arguments of supporters of Proposition 8 head on.

Brown argues that Proposition 8 supporters are wrong to suggest that the people’s right to amend the Constitution through the initiative process is unlimited and that the Court does not have the authority to invalidate Proposition 8. The Court, in fact, has exercised judicial review previously to invalidate a constitutional amendment that was deemed substantively improper.

He also argues Proposition 8 does not invalidate the same-sex marriages entered into between June 16 and November 4, 2008, as some Proposition 8 supporters contend. To invalidate those marriages, Brown argues, would violate the due process rights of those same-sex couples who entered into marriage based on the Court’s ruling in In re: Marriage Cases.

Obama takes the oath a second time just to be safe.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28780417/

Holder should repeat, loudly and clearly, “I believe in the Rule of Law, bitches!” I don’t think Team Obama’s gonna prosecute for wire-tapping or torture, but they dman well ought to (Rule of Law and all that), and we damn well ought to do whatever we can to make it happen. Viva Glenzilla!

This video made by the puma bqueen needs some comments, any takers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux-9877GpRg

I’ve never posted a comment on YouTube before.  I feel so dirty.

You get used to it. I just don’t tell my mother—she doesn’t need that kind of information.

@#####

I’m a little too well-known on the PUMA video threads to have much impact, but I hope someone points out that Hillary attended The Obscene Inaugural Circus, and was not, in fact, serving soup at the YMCA in protest.

As usual, PUMA outrage is selective…and blind.

Strange, they scrubbed my last comment in less than an hour. I’m waiting to see how the latest—a link to the racist pictures of Obama—lasts.

I think they only did it for you, Strange. It’s a PUMA version of the Shop Around the Corner, and you’re Van Johnson. You can say that you and Murphy met cute.

I’m sure my comment won’t go through, but the “herendous” thing really made me laugh.

Yes, PUMA women suffer because of Da Evil Black Man—not because they are semi-literate unemployable fuckwits.

All right, I actually registered a new screen name just for the sake of a vanishing comment on a video that 4.7 people outside of PUMA and ourselves will see. At 10:38 it went up.

This is very bad. I have a gleeful “The Game’s Afoot!” automatic response now to PUMA bait. Must do some deep breathing and remember: Obama is the President. Obama is the President.

And light my Obama extra-organic soy candle with the glowing eyes.

10:47 PM. The comment is gone. Either Bqueen is staying home from therapy tonight just to screen, or my IP is blocked. Do we still have the PERL codes we used to hack the Weblog awards?

PUMAs really are a pack of cowards. They hold their views in such low esteem that they cannot tolerate the slightest criticism. My favorite PUMAs, Lambert and his litter of sycophants at correntewire, have banished every contrary voice from their site, all the while braying loudly and at some length about being run out of PB 1.0 (they called Lambert a racist, the poor baby). Apparently, he and irony are but passing acquaintances.

@Mrs. Polly

I admire your steel and persistence in endeavoring to board the comments section and hoist the Jolly Roger over bqueen’s video…but the scrub-patrols have been frequent and thorough ever since that unfortunate “Sambo” episode.

It’s a shame such a slick editing job was wasted on a multimedia tantrum that takes aim at Obama, but only succeeds in underscoring their heroine’s own passive complicity in every evil he commits.

I say let’s give them their moment. They have no friends, they have no patron, they’ve poisoned their own perception in the media, they’ve burnt every bridge they may have once had to established, connected feminist organizations…and I doubt that Lady Lynn de Rothschild will be returning their phone calls any time soon. But they have their rage, and their frustration, and their shared bond of collective humiliation…and, of course, each other.

In other words, they’re in Hell already…so we might as well take the night off.

I’m lmao that even on youtube they can’t handle a comment unless they see it first to check if it bodes well with them.

“Freedom of Speech!!!!!  Unless you’re dealing with me in which case I’ll deny you that right if I don’t like what you say”

We’ll see if mine makes it.

@Rebecca

And they call themselves “warriors.”

They are gutless, unhappy people with a deep hurt that’s searching for something to blame.

Well, my cutlass wasn’t cutting anyway. And I must get my dirk sharpened.

Did somebody say camel-herding? I could swear I heard a camel spit.

@strange

and don’t forget they disrespect the Haka and somehow think it’s “usually” performed by men when in fact it always is.  Ask The Spice Girls, they know all about trying to wrap their womanly parts around that sacred war dance.

I’d love them to attend a hui, woman aren’t allowed in the front row.

I really need to get over my web obsession with the pumas.  Sometimes I feel like I’m driving by a car wreck, and I can’t seem to get my car to go faster than 1/1,000 of a mile per hour.

They’re not worth our time, are they?  We need to spend that extra time doing what President Obama (yes!!!) has asked of us.  Volunteering.

Sorry Mrs. Polly, I didn’t mean to throw any puma bait out there, ok maybe I did but I couldn’t help myself after the self imposed day of no puma hunting yesterday. =-)

Awesome, they disabled making comments.  Can’t let reality get in the way of their beautiful anger.

Where can I place a bet on which elected Repugnut will be the first to declare that if Holder had his way, Jack Bauer would be thrown in jail?

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