Scott Johnson of Powerline provides the transcript from Attorney General Eric Holder’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Houston’s own Representative John Culberson does an excellent job of nailing Holder’s hide to the wall:
<blockquote>CULBERSON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Mr. Attorney General for appearing before us. In response a moment ago to a question from the chairman, you said that terrorists have the same rights as Charles Manson, correct?
HOLDER: I said that murderers have the same rights as Charles Manson. And if these people are charged with murder in essence that’s — those are the kinds of rights that they would get.
CULBERSON: And terrorists who have murdered U.S. citizens and the approach of your Department of Justice is they have the same rights as Charles Manson?
HOLDER: In the sense that a murder has the right to go before a jury, get the acts that he’s charged with proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes.
CULBERSON: So therefore, Osama bin Laden in your opinion has the same rights as Charles Manson?
HOLDER: In some ways I think they’re — they’re comparable people. In some ways…
CULBERSON: That’s incredible. This is where the disconnect between this administration and your mindset is so completely opposite that of where the vast majority of the American people are, where my constituents and I just have a deep seated and profound philosophical difference with the Obama administration, the Department of Justice, the leadership of this Congress. This is war. And in time of war we as a nation have never given constitutional rights to foreign nationals — enemy soldiers certainly captured overseas.
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by fat albert on 03/18/2010
As the Commander in Chief of all US Armed Forces, President Barak Obama is responsible for setting standards for the actions of our military world wide. And, after a year in office, I guess that we have a pretty good idea of how our current president feels about his country, its military and the flag that represents us.
Thus this article shouldn’t come as any surprise. Apparently the US Military contingent in Haiti – on duty to help with relief efforts – has been told by the Obama Administration not to fly the US flag.
according to the Obama Administration, raising the US flag will make us look like bad guys. The U.S. government’s Haiti Joint Information Center, says: “We are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner committed to supporting the government of Haiti on the road to recovery.”
I know, that I shouldn’t be surprised, after all it is President Obama, but I am.
A peaceful revolution in American terms begins in the county courthouses and governors’ mansions across the fifty states.
ALBANY — A governor’s race that seemed all but settled is about to be upended again, by a popular Democrat from Long Island who is set to announce that he is switching parties. The move is certain to excite Republican leaders pessimistic about their party’s hopes this fall.
Those leaders believe that the official, Steve Levy, a blunt-spoken fiscal hawk and contrarian who collected 96 percent of the vote in his last re-election bid, can tap into the public’s anti-incumbent sentiment and frustration with Albany’s overspending.
Mr. Levy, 50, the Suffolk County executive, said he wanted voters to see him as “Scott Brown II,” referring to the Massachusetts senator who pulled off an upset against a heavily favored Democrat in January.
“There really seems to be a void out there that I can fit perfectly,” Mr. Levy said, describing Albany’s political culture as a “cesspool.”
“We’ve got to clean house, tear that place down and build it back in a cleaner, more efficient manner,” he added.
Breaking news from the New York Times !
From the desk of the redoubtable Mark Levin:
Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used
(LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010)…Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
A full copy of the complaint is here.
Of course, Republicans are new to this. Awkward as their first steps are, they are making Congressman Murphy sweat. After Murf voted for health care legislation last year, his spokeswoman Kate Hansen told me Friday that he is unsure how he will vote on a final bill, which could come this week.
Murphy is among 30 House Democrats listed as “swing” votes, according former Clinton pollster Dick Morris.
Why would Murphy reconsider? According to his spokeswoman, he “won’t commit to voting for this when we don’t know all the details of the final package.”
My guess is the polls, too, which in the 8th District show voters souring on Obama’s health care plans, according to sources.
In six weeks since Republican Mike Fitzpatrick announced he was running for Congress, Bucks County has gone from “solid” Democrat to “leans” Democrat to “tossup.” The “tossup” ranking came late last week from Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, who analyzes electoral projections.
From Phillyburbs.com by Bucks County Courier-Times writer, John Mullane.
