Memo to Reid and Pelosi:
David S. Addington, who is now Cheney’s chief of staff, viewed both U.S. lawmakers and overseas allies with “hostility” and repeatedly opposed efforts by other administration lawyers to soften counterterrorism policies or seek outside support, according to Jack L. Goldsmith, who frequently clashed with Addington while serving as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2003 and 2004.
“We’re going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop,” Addington said at one point, according to Goldsmith.
Can you be that ‘larger force’? Please?
We have to remove these people from office. Immediately if not sooner. They have made it abundantly clear that they will not stop. They have absolute contempt for the rule of law, except when it serves their purposes. Congress can pass all the resolutions they want. They have no intention of acknowledging or obeying any limitations on their power or their plans. Subpoenas? Don’t apply to us. Timetables? They wouldn’t obey them anyway. They’d just gen up some new bogus threat. Funding limits? They’d keep right on going, full speed ahead til the money ran out, then dare Congress to leave our troops out of gas and out of ammo in the middle of a meat grinder.
The only possible recourse we have is to remove them from office. They will not stop until we take away the keys.
well said
i agree 1000%
get rid of these war criminals and torturers right now. congress is hesitating, doing very little to roadblock these monsters and i for the life of me can’t understand why.
it certainly makes me yearn for the days when there were real liberals in the congress who had principles and even grouchy conservative constitutionalists like sam ervin.
pelosi and reid are such pushovers.
maybe it’s just the end of the Republic and the beginning of the imperial american Empire.
Why isn’t anyone getting on Pelosi and Reid’s case over the threat of nuclear war?
like the one that toasted the dinosaurs.
you mean the dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. Right?
Memo to Reid and Pelosi- If addington comment accuarte your only response is to simply refuse to bring to the floor any gooper proposal. Approve zero nominations and force ACTUAL fillibusters. Pull no bill threatened will a philly- force the goopers to step up. Let the media see exactly who is fucking the citizens.
Finally, require every single budget proposal that the pres sends to congress to be meticulously examined and debated. If neede- pass a continuing-
Remember- delay, delay, delay!
billjpa
Why would they want to make them stop? They are convinced that Democrats will win the White House in 2008 and want all those Unitary Executive powers for the new Democratic president.
“We’re going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop,”
“We can do anything you can’t stop us from doing.”
Leave it to the Bushies to use Catch-22 as an instruction manual.