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Republican lawyers repudiate Liz Cheney

Mar.09, 2010 in barack obama Leave a Comment
For those of you who think it's "unAmerican" to give terrorists legal representation, Liz Cheney is on your side.

But a whole bunch of prominent GOP lawyers are not.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34050.html

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A group that includes leading conservative lawyers and policy experts, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and several senior officials of the last Bush administration is denouncing as “shameful” Republican attacks on lawyers who came to the Obama Justice Department after representing suspected terrorists.

Senate Republicans have demanded details of the lawyers' past work and Liz Cheney’s group “Keep America Safe” has questioned their “values." A drumbeat of Republican criticism forced the Justice Department reluctantly to identify seven of them last week. But the harshness of the criticism – Keep America Safe labeled a group of them the “Al Qaeda Seven” — has provoked a backlash from across the legal establishment.
The money quote:

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The statement cited John Adams’s defense of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre to argue that “zealous representation of unpopular clients” is an important American tradition.

The attacks on the lawyers “undermine the Justice system more broadly,” they wrote, by “delegitimizing” any system in which accused terrorists have lawyers, whether civilian courts of military tribunals.

The letter’s signers include some of the top officials of a Bush Justice Department that wrestled at length with the legal questions surrounding terrorist detentions.
We give terrorists lawyers because that is what a free people governed by rights and the rule of law does. Good to see that at least some conservatives get that.

Here's the full text of the statement put out by the lawyers:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...050_Page3.html
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Jesse Ventura interview: tea party “a laugh”

Mar.09, 2010 in barack obama Leave a Comment
I don't agree with everything Ventura says. Nobody does - which makes him a more interesting politician. He speaks his mind and I can respect that. He nails this section of the Larry King interview, though.

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KING: What, then, do you think of the American Tea Party?

VENTURA: I think they're kind of a laugh, because they're supposed to defend the Constitution and all this. Well, where were they when habeas corpus was being taken away, because in our country right now, they can arrest you, they can hold you without charging you, they can keep an attorney from you. All they have to do is say you committed an act of terrorism and they can get away with that.

They've also destroyed the Fourth Amendment of illegal search and seizure. They might as well throw that amendment out, because they're listening to all our phone calls, tapping our e-mail and doing everything they do.

And where were these guys when all this was going on?

See, I think this is just more of a right-wing movement to try to make it look like we're turning socialist or something.

And when you speak on that behalf, you know, the State of Hawaii has had state-run health care for over 40 years and it works fantastic there. In fact, Rush Limbaugh even got treated there and said how great it was, before he found out that it was state-run health care.

And to follow that up...

(LAUGHTER)

VENTURA: To follow that up, Larry, if government-run health care is so bad, then why do we give it to our veterans and have we given it to them since World War I?

KING: Do you think we're going to...

VENTURA: Are we screwing the veterans over or...

KING: Do you think we're going to...

VENTURA: -- if it's good enough for a veteran, it should be good enough for us.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...08/lkl.01.html
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Senate Warns Employees To Avoid The Drudge Report

Mar.09, 2010 in barack obama Leave a Comment
Wow, nothing like a little overt information "oversight" from our esteemed and honest officials in DC.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashsd.htm

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SENATE WARNS EMPLOYEES TO AVOID THE DRUDGE REPORT
Tue Mar 09 2010 08:53:37 ET

Just as the healthcare drama in the capitol reaches a grand finale, congressional officials are warning employees to avoid the DRUDGE REPORT!

The Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is 'responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.'

The committee ordered hill staff: 'Try to avoid' the DRUDGE REPORT 'for now'.

On Monday DRUDGE served over 29 million pages with NOT ONE email complaint received about 'pop ups', or the site serving 'viruses'.

The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]

The Systems Administrator may want to continue taking her antibiotic until the prescription runs out.

Developing...
This Congress is so fragrantly corrupt and dishonest it's frightening. Hell, they don't even want their own employees to have access to the outside the beltway world. Makes you wonder what will happen if one of their staffers is "caught" red handed viewing the Drudge Report? This is sick.
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State troopers confiscate “unregistered” beer

Mar.09, 2010 in barack obama Leave a Comment
If you want an example of actual government excess (instead of the phony paranoia-inspired stuff so often aimed at Obama), it's a little hard to beat this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ho...omplaint_.html

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More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.

The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.
The stated reason for the registration law:

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Francesca Chapman, a PLCB spokeswoman, said that the registration requirement helps the state assure payment of state beer taxes and helps prosecutors identify alcoholic beverages in drunk-driving cases or any other type of prosecution.
The second justificaion sounds like pure nonsense. The first one is fine, but there's this problem:

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While it is the responsibility of the brewer or importer to submit the necessary paperwork and registration fee, it is the tavern or restaurant licensee who may be liable for selling unregistered brands.
Yeah, that makes sense.

If the issue is taxation, fine the brewer or importer, not the tavern owner.

This reminds me of when I lived in Florida. A state senator proposed a bill requiring that all beer be sold in certain sized bottles -- 12 oz., 24 oz., etc. The stated rationale was "to avoid confusing beer buyers." It was, of course, pure coincidence that the requirements exactly matched the bottle sizes used by Anheuser Busch -- and would have made it impossible for many imports to be sold in Florida.

You want to fight government tyranny? Push back against these kind of unnecessary and counterproductive laws, rather than worrying about Obama "stealing our freedoms" in some vague and ill-defined way.
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Obama pleads with public to push his heath care plan

Mar.09, 2010 in barack obama Leave a Comment
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