:rolleyes: So, Bush finally signed the latest Detainee Treatment Act (or whatever it’s being called), and what does the RNC do to celebrate: Tell the American people that Democrats who didn’t sign the bill want to let terrorists go free. What a crock. I guess you can’t help saying really stupid things when it looks like you’re going to lose both Houses of Congress– a distinct possibility now. I’m fucking sick and tired of this goddamn fear mongering. Will the voters finally reject that ridiculous arguement? I think they largely will. This is going to be a very intersting election!!
That’s got the sound of a weaselly little gambler without any chips trying to bluff his way thru a losing hand. I don’t start a lot of Pit threads, but I’m getting itchy for this election to be over so the Republicans can have the fear of God put in them. They need it!
They’re going to play the terror card until it stops winning. I think it is going to fall short this time but it’s sad that this is their best shot. If you’re not marching lockstep with Bush with no questioning his decidership, then it means you’re for the terrorists. Sheesh.
Both parties do this on a regular basis.
Wasn’t phone taping supposed to be the be all end all of Big Brotherness?
I understand that the Dems would let some of the supposed terrorists go, but I also assume that they intend to expedite the hearings and what-have-you to allow that to happen. Not exactly a get out of jail free card but also not the same as the current situation.
Would it be OK to list them as formersupposed terrorists?
Obviously no-one is going to let an actual terrorist go free, slitting their own political throat that would be. Just as no-one was going to phone tap a completely innocent person’s line.
I thought it was the Personal Responsibility Party. That’s why whenever they fuck up (usually at noon, 2:30, and 5:00 daily, evening show on Fridays and Saturdays), they deflect attention from themselves by pointing out how Democrats never accept personal responsibility.
Given the way “terrorist” has been defined (apparently whoever a member of the Executive Branch baldly asserts is a terrorist), virtually anyone aquitted by a Democrat in a court of law in a case even remotely relevant to TWAT can easily be defined as a “terrorist set free”.
For such a potentially explosive accusation, the response is, thus far, muted. I did a quick run around to lefty blog sites and there is no mention of this putrid bit of political theater.
This is probably why the stupid thing passed in the first place. Everyone knew this was going to happen and I’m sure plenty of Dems who voted for it were just plain cowards.
I’m not only going to let the terrorists go, I’m going to give each of them a map of all the nuclear reactors in the US, a Jimmy Fresno disguise kit, and a nice muffin sampler.
How could you even know whether you were tapping the line of anyone completely innocent, without first having a trial in which the person was acquitted?
Unless you’re assuming the Jack Chick definition of “completely innocent person”, under which, I’ll grant you, there is no such critter.
Did you intend to assert that “no-one was going to phone tap a person-for-whom-no-probable-cause-for-suspicion-existed’s* line”?
Please clarify.
*or whatever the standard necessary for an ex post facto FISA warrant actually is.
You mean they’ll stop on November 7? Great! I’m pretty sure the Republican edge on national security has been reduced to almost nil over the last few years.
Maybe it depends on how much this press release gets reported by the MSM, or if it’s a tag line that starts to get picked up by Republicans up for re-election. I just picked up the blurb on YahooNews.
