Senate Approves Mukasey AG, Kennedy Laugher – Talks About “restoring confidence in the rule of law”
Terry Trippany on Nov 08 2007 at 11:14 pm | Filed under: Feature Article, Political Beat, Politicians at Work, The New Democrat Congress
Update via Michelle Malkin – Nomination approved, 53-40.
Look who was too busy to vote…
McCain, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Dodd, Cornyn (r), Alexander (r)
Democrats in Congress that are too gutless to actually pass a law that specifically outlaws waterboarding are hoping that they can use the nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General to stir up images of U.S. government led torture chambers. The only problem is that the spokesmen for the Democrats are in no position to talk about ethics and “rule of law”.
Take for instance the alcohol bloated swimmer and bloviator extraordinaire Senator Ted Kennedy.
The next attorney general must restore confidence in the rule of law,” Kennedy said. “We cannot afford to take the judgment of an attorney general who either does not know torture when he sees it or is willing to look the other way.”
Let’s rephrase that comment and see if we can make any comparisons between the imaginary machinations of a bloated Senate demagogue and the real actions of an alleged drunk driver that left Mary Jo Kopechne to endure a torturous death in a sinking car.
The next drunk driver must restore confidence in the rule of law,” Kennedy said. “We cannot afford to take the judgment of another person like myself who either does not know a drowning young girl when he sees one or is willing to look the other way.”
Why anyone listens to one word Senator Kennedy says is beyond me. Aren’t Democrats even remotely embarrassed to have Ted Kennedy on their side? (or is it the other way around?) Strike that. The lefty lackeys in the mainstream media love to perpetuate the message of American military and government bashing Democrats in Congress.
Despite the words of Kennedy and his ilk the Senate moved ahead on the confirmation. But that didn’t stop the Associated Press from maligning Mukasey’s character, because as we all know, the fools in the AP are little Kennedys.
WASHINGTON – The Senate moved to confirm Michael Mukasey as the nation’s newest attorney general Thursday despite differences over his position on the legality of harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Uh, no. Mukasey doesn’t have a position on harsh interrogation that differs from the rule of law. He stated that the rule would be his guide. If anybody has differences it is Democrats who suddenly found it convenient to be vague when defining existing law that otherwise could have specifically forbid waterboarding. (see Libs Wetting Their Pants Over New AG Nomination, Cry “Waterboarding” in This Season’s Abu Ghraib)
And now for the big DUH moment by the AP writers.
To win confirmation, Mukasey has promised to enforce any anti-waterboarding law passed by Congress, where, his Republican supporters say, responsibility for such policies lie.
Mukasey’s Democratic opponents say he is being disingenuous because any such law would likely be vetoed by President Bush.
Democrats love to complain but we can see what a farce it really is when considering the latest override they got on a Presidential veto. This confirms that once again Democrats are simply playing games; lip service for morons. If Democrats really wanted to pass something they could.
Mukasey, the former chief U.S. district judge in the Manhattan courthouse just blocks from ground zero, was first appointed to the bench in 1987 by President Reagan. He also worked for four years as a trial prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York’s Southern District — one of the Justice Department’s busiest and highest-profile offices in the country.
Mukasey oversaw some of the nation’s most significant terror trials in the years before and after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He sentenced Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the “blind sheik,” to life in prison for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, and he signed in 2002 the material witness warrant that let the FBI arrest U.S. citizen Jose Padilla. That warrant marked the start of a case that wound its way through several federal courts as the government declared Padilla an enemy combatant and held him for 3 1/2 years before he was convicted last month on terrorism-related charges.
In an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal, Mukasey criticized U.S. national security law as too weak in some areas by noting that prosecutors are sometimes forced to reveal details of cases at the risk of tipping off terrorists. He is also a supporter of the government’s anti-terror USA Patriot Act, wryly writing in 2004 that the “awkward name may very well be the worst thing about the statute.”
Mukasey, a partner at New York-based law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, is also a close friend to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican. He stepped down as an adviser to Giuliani’s presidential campaign, on which he served as part of an advisory committee on judicial nominations.
See also: Michelle Malkin, Wizbang, Wake up America, Blue Crab Boulevard
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As much as I try I cannot believe that anyone could take the Sot serious on anything. Except as the head commie I guess. I’m sure he is right next to the Grand Bu-Baa in rank. Unless the Bu-Baa is in full white sheet dress then he is higher. The Sot looks really second place then. Those crisp white sheets always gets them.