FratBoy Justice at High Noon Thirty
When you’ve just been told by a Republican Supreme Court that your leader has been breaking US law and the laws of civilized nations, what’s a poor fratboy follower to do next?
Go to Disneyland? Wish he were an Oscar Meyer Wiener? Nope. And nope.
Like a dweeb in a trance from chugging Zima, he starts picking on the nearest girl, calling her a coward because she stands for law and order.
Republicans yesterday looked to wrest a political victory from a legal defeat in the Supreme Court, serving notice to Democrats that they must back President Bush on how to try suspects at Guantanamo Bay or risk being branded as weak on terrorism.
In striking down the military commissions Bush sought for trials of suspected members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the high court Thursday invited Congress to establish new rules and put the issue prominently before the public four months before the midterm elections. As the White House and lawmakers weighed next steps, House GOP leaders signaled they are ready to use this week’s turn of events as a political weapon.
House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) criticized House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s comment Thursday that the court decision “affirms the American ideal that all are entitled to the basic guarantees of our justice system.” That statement, Boehner said, amounted to Pelosi’s advocating “special privileges for terrorists.”
Waytago, John. Pelosi doesn’t believe it’s right that the chauffeurs and gardeners of terrorists and the hundreds of people that have been released from Gitmo as non-dangerous non-terrorists, after being held for two or more years, should be bit by dogs, suffocated, murdered, and otherwise tortured or abused. She believes courts are there to uphold the law, see that the innocent are protected and see that the guilty are punished.
And some frat boys are all upset because they think everyone who lives in Afghanistan or Iraq must be kidnapped, detained without any contact with relatives, friends or lawyers because, hey, they’re not Americans so they must be punished.
Sorry, John Boner, but back in the day, we had a system of justice in a few lawless places, just like that. They were called lynch mobs.
If that’s what your fraternity plans to base your re-election campaigns on, here’s a bit of free advice that I think will help: put down your bottles of Ripple and back away.
When one of the architects of the illegal actions decides to defend his bosses without mentioning his role, you’d expect he could provide some substantive facts instead of bad analogies and lots of his opinions. Nope, instead he apes Tarzan: “Judges bad. Tarzan’s daddy good.”
Would you buy used legal counsel from such a putz? No wonder this administration keeps screwing up. They buy legal advice from a 7-11 stock clerk who got his legal and historical info from Guns and Ammo.
July 1st, 2006 at 6:41 am
Ummm…. generally this is the way our government works. While it is a mystery to some, we have checks and balances in this country, and the Supreme Court checking the president doesn’t mean he was “breaking the law”. Indeed, part of the ruling was that there was no applicable law in this case, and that Congress should make one subject to due process concerns; hence Frist, McCain and Specter are introducing legislation to give the president what he needs. It’s going to be fun watching the Democrats waffle between “being tough on terrorists” and “protecting terrorists’ civil rights” all the way up to the midterm elections.
July 1st, 2006 at 7:43 am
Hundreds of non-dangerous non-detainees have been released from Gitmo after spending a coupla years incommunicado. I guess one can justify calling them terrorists because they were stupid enough to choose not to be born in Skkkueal-like-a-nonKKKhristian-pig Redstate Amerikkka.
If the Republikkkan election campaign is going to be based on defending war kkkriminals, it looks like the folks whut brung us the KKKontract On America will soon be joining the Know-Nothing Party in the annals of Floppy Fecunds.
July 1st, 2006 at 7:43 am
Time and again George, the world’s daftest murderer, rallies all his pussyboys to follow him off another cliff. I say “Step away from the cliff” and let them fall.
July 1st, 2006 at 8:32 am
It will be sad to see Rove & Co. pummel the Dems on this. Being ‘Soft on Terrorism’ is the modern equivalent of being ‘Soft on Communism’ in the 1950’s. I actually hope the Republicans keep the House & Senate in the Fall, so the entire Iraq debacle will happen on their watch.