The votes for Mukasey amounted to Congressional votes for torture.

In addition, Mukasey is a supporter of excessive government secrecy. In the past he has sought subpoenas against defense attorneys in an effort to violate attorney/client confidentiality, sought subpoenas to attain the names of individuals that contribute money to the support to a defendant –especially if they are American Muslims— and while he wants to enhanced the power of the state, especially the Bush administration, he is an opponent of the individual privacy of citizens. Attorney General Mukasey, like Gonzo before him, is another disaster for our country.

Boggs # 112911—-about your list:

ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto

~A. Z. Arrow
November 13, 2007

The votes for Mukasey amounted to Congressional votes for torture.

In addition, Mukasey is a supporter of excessive government secrecy. In the past he has sought subpoenas against defense attorneys in an effort to violate attorney/client confidentiality, sought subpoenas to attain the names of individuals that contribute money to the support to a defendant –especially if they are American Muslims— and while he wants to enhanced the power of the state, especially the Bush administration, he is an opponent of the individual privacy of citizens. Attorney General Mukasey, like Gonzo before him, is another disaster for our country.

Boggs # 112911—-about your list:

ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto

~A. Z. Arrow
November 13, 2007

#113220 by Louise

Louise,

I’m still very bugged by the fact that neither Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama cast a vote on this. Still don’t know if they were ‘no shows’ (and why), or if they just chose not to vote. Either way, it bugs me. This was very important, and it would appear like they may have been avoiding taking a position.

Know what I mean? The standard ‘political games’?

#112911 by boggs on 11/11 at 9:19 am

“Lets all see that the following democrat senators don’t get re-elected next time their seat is up for grabs.
Bayh, IN
Carper, DE
Feinstein, CA
Landrieu, LA
Lieberman, CT
Nelson, NE
Schumer, NY

“They seem to be all advocates of torture.
We do not need them in our government.”

Thanks for that info boggs.
Repost every once in a while.

It’s good to know who works against the best interests of the country.

In addition to most repubs, of course.

Re: Mukasey

Senator Kennedy:

I join you in standing against torture and against the administration’s sadistic behavior. Torture is a violation of acclaimed American values. It violates domestic and international law. Torture violates the military code of conduct and its use in Bush’s Inquisition is beyond reason and without justification. Government sponsored torture is anti-moral and inhumane. Bush & companies -the loonies enthroned—advocate torture while denying guilt and they proclaim legal exceptionalism by denying that torture is torture: their conduct is an abomination before their mythical God and is a crime before our foundational Constitution of the United States, as the Bush administration’s policy of torture destroys humanity and destroys the human spirit while simultaneously destroying a (once promising) reputation of the USA in the eyes of and in judgment made by the people of the world. Bush and his Sadistic Torture Regime are a bunch of sickos !

~A. Z. Arrow

Lets all see that the following democrat senators don’t get re-elected next time their seat is up for grabs.
Bayh, IN
Carper, DE
Feinstein, CA
Landrieu, LA
Lieberman, CT
Nelson, NE
Schumer, NY

They seem to be all advocates of torture.
We do not need them in our government.

#112651 by jbart
Jbart,

I love your story. I love that you were ‘politicking’ at such a young age, and I’m jealous that I didn’t get to shake Bobby’s hand myself. And, since I’m only a year (maybe less) younger than you, I remember all of this same stuff. Maybe that’s what seems to make these times even harder on us, than on some of the kids. I don’t know.

You’re right about the UNITING though, and I honestly believe that it’s getting a tad bit better. One of the biggest problems I’ve found, is that it’s been almost a one-at-a-time sort of a ‘conversion’ process. Because, even though you were from what was basically an A-political family, (though maybe it was more that your parents just didn’t share their views with the you kids) you still were doing your own ‘politicking’ so you were like ‘in it’. So many folks that I know, (even older than I) have managed to go through there entire lives, with next to know interest or awareness in the political process, or how they are even affected by it.

Matter of fact, I’ve spent the last two days basically ‘counseling’ a very dear friend, after sending her the piece by Col. Antoon, on this cancer of the radical evangelicals. In short, she admitted that she rarely reads the links I send her from TD, but had decided to read that one. Well, she’s just this really nice, (but naïve) lady who is very wedded to her Christianity, and had NO IDEA that such things could be happening, (and in the military, where one of her sons attended West Point, as well as a neice who was killed in Iraq 2 years ago…just out of West Point herself). So, she was devastated, and didn’t want to believe it. She’s been somehow led to believe that Cindy Sheehan was ‘spreading hate’ when she did her mission down in Texas, because of course that’s a big Christian Military community, and that’s what these people are, and of course they believed all of the initial lies, etc, etc.

So, it has taken this long, and this many tragedies, to finally get the connection through, on the ‘political’ nature of all of this. And that’s why I say it’s been a one at a time sort of thing, to even get people AWARE, because the lies and propaganda have now been perpetrated for so long. But, I do get your point about uniting. And, THEY’VE certainly managed to do it, through Bible study, and these mega churches, and all the rest…to spread the lies, and control the nature of the discourse. So, we should be able to do the same. Because, this one at a time thing just isn’t cuttin’ it.

Meantime, I sure did enjoy these videos. I didn’t bother to listen to Lieberman, because I already knew what he was gonna say, (the dirty bastard..I remember what happened with Lamont when he won) and I didn’t want to ruin my temporary ‘euphoria’ after watching and hearing the first 3 of these esteemed gentleman. I love ‘em. Watching Bernie made me think I should move to Vermont, just so he could be my Senator. (though I do like ONE of my own here in California).

And now…here we are with 58,000 gallons of oil dumped in our SF Bay. I think they did it on purpose. And who is allegedly there to respond to this latest disaster? Well, private contractors of course. Blackwater maybe? Where’s our Coast Guard? Probably in the Persian Gulf or Guantanamo Bay. The dirty bastards. (I like saying that)

#112638 by B Sharp
B Sharp, thanks for this. I was just about to go looking, to see what Obama and Clinton had done on this vote. Somehow, I had a feeling they might not show up. (or were they there, and just didn’t vote?) More strikes against them. Everytime they have a chance to save themselves, (at least in my eyes) they don’t. I’m not surprised about Clinton, but I had this fear from the beginning, that Barack could become corrupted by these nasty politics. And, looks like that’s what happened. Should’ve been willing to take these risks. He better sign on to the impeachment resolution, if he wants any chance to be VP to Kucinich.

I cant wait until these voices joins the IMPEACH CHENEY movement, which eventually they will.

[except little joe of course, uh ... unless he decides there’s something in it for him]

Stay tuned.
http://www.democracynow.org/
Friday, November 9th, 2007: Listen/Watch entire show.
Kucinich explains ... a must hear!