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When Gonzales was asked whether any US citizens were being held for over a month having been denied habeus corpus and a lawyer, Gonzales said, “[Y]ou’re asking me a question I hadn’t really thought about.”
When asked if any US citizen was being held by a foreign government without these rights, Gonzales said again, “It’s just — quite frankly, I hadn’t thought about this.”
I think we have our answer.
When asked if any US citizen was being held by a foreign government without these rights, Gonzales said again, “It’s just — quite frankly, I hadn’t thought about this.”
I think we have our answer.
posted by mikevotes at
4:05 PM
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So this leads me to a question. Why the hell hasn't Congress started impeachment proceedings against Gonzales?
I'm not one of those liberals* who has been running around screaming "impeachment, impeachment" in a let's-get-the-bastards fit. But give me a frickin' break! Based on his performance before Congress alone, Gonzales has shown himself to be patently incompetent, and I would say criminally malfeasant, in his role of Attorney General of the United States.
Come on people! It's time to show this man the door.
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* In fact, I don't see myself so much as pro-liberal as anti-bullshit.
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-epm, at 5:15 PM
My hunch is that they feel that in the current climate, impeachment, whether Gonzales, Cheney or Bush, would undermine their position.
Right now,they are perceived to be fighting from the center, but as soon as an impeachment is discussed, the thing turns partisan with all the echoes of Clinton's impeachment.
They lose their current "mainstream" position in the back and forth.
(Yes, I recognize that Clinton's crime was relatively minor compared to the current misdeeds, but that would be the comparison.)
The press would ask, "will every president be impeached by the opposition?"
The media would turn it into Democrats v Republicans rather than what it is now, America vs. Bush.
My opinion.
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mikevotes, at 6:01 PM
No, no, I can see the political downside to pursuing impeachment (and I'm only talking about Gonzo). Still, I'm frustrated that these thugs (BushCo) have put us in this untenable position. They have shown that the executive branch need not play ethically or morally, nor even legally. The executive can do whatever it pleases and there's nothing anyone can (or will) do about it.
I wonder if we're in for an American Dark Ages. A period of national and international upheaval as we search for our national "soul." Will we go back to being a nation of laws, of principles? A model nation above moral reproach? Or will we continue on our new path of might makes right, where belief trumps knowledge and stubbornness passes as strength, and nothing is immoral if you believe the goal is just?
Will this be the century of American decline... where America is not longer a country but a corporate entity?
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-epm, at 6:16 PM
I think the use of the word impeachment starts that conversation, even if it's only Gonzales.
I do share your frustration regarding a lack of direct consequence.
And I'm having that creeping question, would a President Clinton give back the executive powers that have been claimed?
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mikevotes, at 9:25 PM
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