Comments on: I Hope This Whole “Imprisoning People Without Evidence” Thing Doesn’t Make People Question the President’s Judgment!

By: Cynical In CA

Cynical In CA — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:46:26 +0000

For evidence of the above in current events, look no further than Yahoo:

Bush’s Last Rule-Making Hurrah

“With just 60 days left in his tenure, you might think that W.’s lame-duck administration was sitting around relieved that another guy was taking over, and Bush was counting the minutes until his flight leaves for Crawford.

Not quite.

Based on the flurry of quiet directives coming from the White House as the end of the term nears, it looks like the Bush goose (or is it turducken?) isn’t quite cooked yet.

In what has become a kind of presidential right-of-passage, the president (or really, the federal agencies that answer to him) has been pushing through a series of last-minute regulations that have the force of law. Everything from pollution controls to family-leave standards can be set by these rules.”

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One can always identify power — it is that which you are powerless against.

By: Cynical In CA

Cynical In CA — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:39:57 +0000

“Me, I look at all of this and I worry that we’ve given the executive way too much power…”

No need to worry, “we” didn’t do anything.

Ah, the ambiguous “we.” More Balko shorthand, I guess.

Those who hold power seize it. No one “gives” them anything.

By: Gitmo Decision « Our Politics

Gitmo Decision « Our Politics — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:55:20 +0000

[...] Gitmo Decision Posted on November 21, 2008 by Sal Here’s Radley Balko’s piece. [...]

By: BJC

BJC — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:15:16 +0000

I was pretty sure that the Uighurs haven’t actually gotten an appeals court judgment, although their release was stayed pending appeal. So they haven’t lost yet, but they’re not out of the klink.

By: ParatrooperJJ

ParatrooperJJ — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00:21 +0000

The President can always declare them Title I combatants and then order them shot for being spies captured out of uniform.

By: Mike T

Mike T — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:30:40 +0000

Well, we'll be in for more fun times with executive abuse if Obama gets Eric Holder in his cabinet. I'm confused. How precisely was Obama supposed to be the lesser evil again? Good for you for voting your conscience for voting for Barr, but it'd be nice if you actually admitted that so far, you have been wrong about Obama actually showing any signs that he'd be a better President than McCain.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:06:22 +0000

if these people live to be 70, they will have spent about 15 to 20% of their adult lives being humiliated, tortured, and detained by our government. I can’t miss 2 weeks of work without my world being in danger of caving in!

Our grandkids are gonna be asking us, ‘How could you let that happen?’

By: Salvo

Salvo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:15 +0000

#1: I really, really hope that was sarcasm. If it is, I apologize, but the past 8 years have kind of blurred the lines between sarcasm, satire, and what some people actually believe.

By: z

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:35:59 +0000

Well, to err by throwing innocent people in prison rather than err by letting dangerous people go free sucks for those innocents, but it’s generally ok for the vast majority of americans. Same as the old “fighting them in Iraq so we don’t need to fight them here” strategy. Sucks if you’re Iraqi and your innocent civilians get blown up instead of innocent american civilians, but hey, suck it up.