Comments on: Shorter Powerline: Punish Dawn Johnsen For Wanting Government To Follow Its Own Laws

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:46:16 +0000

LOL — wow, that was a serious giggle from the wayback machine. Thanks.

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:09:11 +0000

Maybe those Republicans trying to block Johnson from this spot need someone to sit in that seat who will go after more lies about blow jobs . Forget going after the unimportant issues like false WMD intelligence, undermining National Security and our Justice system, torture.

Do the Republicans blocking Johnson have any idea there are Republicans who have lost total faith in that party watching along with the rest of us

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:05:31 +0000

Obama, Holder, Leahy, Whitehouse, Feingold, Pelosi ‘NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW”

So far Obama has voiced his support that there are plenty of people ABOVE THE LAW. Those who have done the torturing and those who rewrote those laws. Extremely depressing news. Feeling like the hundreds of hours (at least) that I put in for him were a big waste of time.

Here is hoping and praying that Holder meant what he said during his nomination hearing at least 10 times “no one is above the law”

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:17:34 +0000

She had to chug a bottle of Maalox afterward, but it was a small price to pay.

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:23:44 +0000

oh Christy, forgive me a light hearted moment in the face of your sterling post -

but just seeing Paul’s name under your byline harkened me back to your ‘debate’ with him on C-Span a few years back - and one of my all time favorite comments

“. . .hey, where’d everybody go ?!?!? Reddhedd is eating a gooper on live teevee , you guys gotta see this !”

By: burqa

burqa — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:47:48 +0000

Yes, heaven forbid any of these people bother to read the Church Committee reports and the whys of the initial FISA law implementation to begin with…

The chap I like on the FISA law and related matters is that Judge Andrew Napolitano…

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:07 +0000

Christy - don’t forget that there has also been at least one Fed Dist Ct Judge who has looked at the “revised program” and looked at it “on the merits” ex parte. That was Judge Diggs-Taylor and she ruled it unconstitutional. The Sixth Circuit knocked back her determination of standing, but the only Judge to review the program on the merits has ruled on the record that it is unconstitutional

Of course you also have Judge Walker who has certified the al-Haramain case to go forward, pretty much impliedly ruling that the program is illegal.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:55:45 +0000

Yes, heaven forbid any of these people bother to read the Church Committee reports and the whys of the initial FISA law implementation to begin with…

By: burqa

burqa — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:46:18 +0000

This is what happens when there is a combination of an administration with an unquenchable thirst for power and a compliant Congress, neither of which believes the oath they swore to means anything.
This just makes the pain of the loss of men like Barry Goldwater and Pat Moynihan worse because neither would have stood for a second for any of this…