I guess, to the GOP’s way of thinking, actors Kelsey Grammer and Adam Sandler would be “small business” people (can’t think of any other rationale for a vote like this…the bill was signed into law today).
(Maybe more posting tomorrow…)
I guess, to the GOP’s way of thinking, actors Kelsey Grammer and Adam Sandler would be “small business” people (can’t think of any other rationale for a vote like this…the bill was signed into law today).
(Maybe more posting tomorrow…)
Sounds like “Gubernatorial Campaign Fail, Clean Up Aisle 7″…
As I look at the pics of the wildlife covered with sludge, the phrase “you get what you pay for” comes to mind.
Amidst his other idiotic ramblings here, Repug U.S. House Rep. Aaron Schock criticizes the Obama Administration for dumping those dern terrists from Guantanamo into the “heartland” (presumably, Schock is referring to the Illinois “supermax” prison in Thomson; as Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune tells us here, Thomson is “a small town in the northwest corner of the state”).
Chapman also tells us the following…
The Bush administration’s purpose in putting the captives at the U.S. naval base in Cuba was to keep them beyond the reach of federal courts, so it could do whatever struck the fancy of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. But the Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted that Guantanamo cannot be a lawless zone. The executive branch has to follow the Constitution even there.
Moving the prisoners to American soil would affirm the startling proposition that we consider ourselves bound by the rule of law. It wouldn’t make veteran terrorists give up the fight. But it would deprive them of an emblem of torture and abuse that inspires anti-American fury and endangers American lives.
When the detainees arrive here, I predict, Illinoisans will pay attention for about five minutes and then go on calmly with their lives. At least the grown-ups will.
Amen.
And while we await the details of this supposedly doubleplusgood health care “compromise” that involves killing the public option deader than dead (and by the way, why is it that the punditocracy and our politicians only consider a “compromise” a circumstance where we lose ground and the right-wing methane dispensers gain ground at our expense?), I thought it would be instructive to review how we got here (and how pathetic is it that former Governor Just Plain Folks Sarah Palin actually makes sense here, albeit out of context?)