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  •  not rescinded (none / 0)

    Precisely, see my update.

    Everybody dies alone.

    by Armando on Sat Dec 11, 2004 at 10:54:15 AM PDT

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    •  FILIBUSTER Scenario (4.00 / 1)

      Why don't we Kossacks write a draft filibuster for each of our Democratic Senators?  As a start, I have chosen Sen. Byrd, who was so eloquent in his stand against the DHS.  Please help me draft his filibuster speech by posting your revisions and extensions in replies!!

      Sen. Byrd:  My fellow Senators, I have stack of pictures in my office.  It is a stack that is 10 feet high.  This stack of pictures documents a horrific, Apolocalyse Now scenario that was directed and sanctioned by the man this President now seeks to install as Attorney General.  I might add that this man's memo created a policy of torture that remains the official policy of the United States.  

      I will now endeavor to describe each and every picture and enter those descriptions into the record of our esteemed body, so that Americans of future generations will know that there were those in this country and this Senate who spoke out against this odious and nefarious, and un-American policy, and against the man who brought it into creation.

      The first exhibit...

      PATRIOT I+II, MCA, FISA CAPITULATION, NOW TORTURE. YOUR COUNTRY IS SLOWLY BEING DISMANTLED. WHAT R U GONNA DO ABOUT IT?

      by maxschell on Sat Dec 11, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM PDT

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      •  Wouldn't it make more sense (none / 0)

        to bombard the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee with email, faxes, etc.?  I don't know who the new members will be come January, but the present members are people like Biden, who was GREAT on the need to observe the Geneva Convention.  His own son is in the fray, and he explained that we need to observe it for a lot of reasons, but for a good practical reason - if we don't, then when our guys get captured, the enemy won't.  We don't want to set that precedent, do we?  Sometimes I think the practical reasons may be the only ones that might get through to these people (though even that one didn't get through).

        Anyway, some of the committee assignments should survive - Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer, Biden, ther's a whole bunch of good Senators for us on this committee.  If we have good questions or info, send it their way.  They know how to ask the tough questions, and Schumer leaks to the press better than any politician I know.  At least if the committee hearings are loud, this won't be like a tree falling in the forest.

        We do not rent rooms to Republicans.

        by Mary Julia on Sat Dec 11, 2004 at 12:18:11 PM PDT

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