DiFi & Schumer Vote Yes On Mukasey

[Me.]

Damn them. As per CNN.

[anniebelle]

1. I'm just disgusted! n/t

[chimpymustgo]

2. Just heard it. Damn them. Damn them. Damn them. WHYYYYYYY???

What in the world will be the gutless, slimy explanation?

[leftchick]

8. they are complict war criminal enablers

probably making a good profit too. :grr:

[EFerrari]

3. How is this a surprise? n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. I doubt it is to anyone here

But it's still a disappointment. :(

[Swamp Rat]

6. Not to me.

I expected it.

[EFerrari]

9. This woman built her career on the murder of Harvey Milk.

Piece of work.

[TahitiNut]

20. She was a political ally of Dan White and saw him right before he murdered Milk.

I tend to think of her as the Twinkie-Pusher. In fact, she was instrumental in keeping Dan White from resigning. If he had resigned, it's likely that Moscone and Milk would still be alive.

[EFerrari]

23. I didn't know that.

But, it's unsurprising given her subsequent career.

[Disturbed]

10. No surprise that Dino Feinstein appeases Busholini.

She has been on her knees ever since she got to Washington DC.

[Horse with no Name]

5. They sure figured out quickly how to keep accommodating Bush didn't they?

I hope these two are voted out.

[CherokeeDem]

7. Double Damn Them

What in the world are these people thinking? We just continually roll over and let this corrupt administration get by with everything. I am so confused about what is going on. I know I am not alone.

[tekisui]

11. They don't have a problem with Torture??

:shrug:

[Tesha]

37. Not as long as the "right" people are being tortured. (NT)

[Cass]

12. Didn't DiFi recently take a trip with Bush on AF1 and speak glowingly

about him afterwards? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[Solly Mack]

14. That was her...called him a decent human being

[Cass]

16. Thanks for that confirmation, Solly

A decent human being....ha.

[Solly Mack]

13. I solemnly swear to enable and protect war criminals

Guess that's how the oath went...

[proud patriot]

15. I don't know who Di Fi thinks she's representing

but it certainly is not me

[MzNov]

38. and it's not the rest of the Ca Dems either.

She cares little about her constituents. She's a republican.

[Individualist]

17. Both are DLC members

I'd have been surprised (understatement) if they had voted otherwise.

[BrklynLib at work]

19. True. Wasn't Schumer instrumental in convincing the War Vet NOT to run for Senate from PA...?

(Sorry..names escape me at the moment...)

[Individualist]

24. Yes. Paul Hackett was running for the Senate in Ohio,

and Schumer was part of the dirty tricks DLC team who undermined him.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/02/hackett_drops_out.html

[OzarkDem]

26. Schumer backed Sherrod Brown, who is a liberal

and represents Ohio very well. It was not a DLC issue.

[Individualist]

28. It certainly was a DLC issue

Read the link I posted. http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/02/hackett_drops_out.html

[OzarkDem]

40. It wasn't a DLC issue, Brown is a liberal

as much as some would like to make it so, it had nothing to do with the DLC.

A quick check of Brown's voting record in Congress will prove it. Do some homework.

[Individualist]

42. Here's some homework for you:

The legislation adopted by the House of Representatives Wednesday and the Senate Thursday, legalizing the Bush administration’s policy of torture and indefinite detention without trial, as well as kangaroo-court procedures for Guantánamo detainees, marks a watershed for the United States.

The 34 House Democrats included a number of right-wing Southern Democrats, but also several members of the Congessional Black Caucus and two congressmen who are Democratic candidates for the US Senate in next month’s election—Harold Ford of Tennessee and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/tort-s29.shtml

The truth is, though, it wasn’t only Republicans who voted for the Military Commissions Act. Democrat Sherrod Brown voted for it too. So did Democrat Harold Ford Jr. Harold Ford Jr. was subsequently made chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.

http://sinnickel.com/blog/?m=200702



More: Ford: DLC, Schumer: DLC, Feinstein: DLC

[OzarkDem]

43. Sorry

I've known Sherrod Brown personally for the last 12 years and am familiar with his voting record for the last two decades. You're going to have to do better than that.

[cali]

31. Sherrod Brown is waay more liberal and progressive

than Hackett. Not even in the same ballpark.

[BrklynLib at work]

Never voted for Schumer, and never would!! That man always seemed to be talking out of two sides of

his mouth..This just confirms what a lying hypocrite he is...just another crooked politician

[Me.]

21. I Did

To my everlasting sorrow. Just wait till he runs again.

[Me.]

18. I Blame Schumer More

She's always been a sellout. As for him, I still haven't forgotten how he proudly introduced Chertoff. Schumer needs to be replaced. I'm never voting for him again.

[Disturbed]

22. Dino Feinstein will be in office until 2012 unless CA voters

manage a recall. Of course, that won't happen.

[Alexander]

41. Recalls are not possible for federal office.

[opihimoimoi]

25. I am disgusted beyond repair...Fuck those DINOs....fuck um to Hell and Back...

They love Torture?..... Who Knew???

I only wish we could waterboard them sob's.....

[Me.]

27. Very Well Put

.

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. Safe seats...the whole thing's a set up

The people voting no did so because it was purely symbolic. Schumer's not gonna lose a Dem primary in NY, and DiFi ain't gonna lose one in CA, and neither would lose to a GOPer in either state, period. So, they have safe Yes votes, and a couple of Dems get to pretend to object, blah blah blah. Anyone who didn't think Bush was gonna get his way is a fucking idiot. Period.

[cali]

32. Bullshit.

Kennedy? Whitehouse? I don't think so. And I KNOW that Senator Leahy is voting out of conviction. You might want to check out how involved he's been in anti-torture activism over a great many years.

[alcibiades_mystery]

33. ROFL

Symbolic victory for the anti-torture geniuses!

Hooray!

Let me know when Mukasey takes his oath. Thanks.

[cali]

35. Breaking: not all opposition is always out of cynicism

You might want to inform yourself on the records of Leahy and Kennedy before making yr little judgements. Nah, why ask the impossible? Some people aren't interested in actually informing themselves.

[alcibiades_mystery]

36. Whatever

Leahy's record hasn't done squat for the people of this country or the world when it counted, so he's a failure, and the same goes for Kennedy. Two fucking failures this past six years, with a long string of symbolic victories for starry-eyed clowns to idolize.

[MzNov]

39. It's not bullshit. Leahy waited until he knew DiFi and Schumer vote.

then he came out safely against. That's how it works in politics!!

Kennedy and Whitehouse are probably voting as they believe.

[cali]

47. Sorry, that's not true. a) I heard him on vpr

a couple of days ago in an extended interview, and it was clear that he was going to vote against him, and b) this afternoon I talked with someone who worked for him for years, and he said that Leahy and Kennedy had been working on Schumer trying to get him to announce with Leahy that he wouldn't vote for him. Now who should I believe? You or my friend, and my own personal knowledge of Pat Leahy?

[MzNov]

48. I don't care who you believe. I worked for a majority leader.

I know how they count the votes beforehand so everyone is covered.

Wow, you're a nasty one.

[cali]

49. I'm not the one engaging in

ad hominem attacks here. There was nothing nasty in my post to you.

Goodnight.

[MzNov]

50. No nastiness on my part. Have a lovely weekend.

[spanone]

30. Let's see how many Republicans on the committee break ranks.

fuck them both.

they are endorsing torture period

[Elidor]

34. As useless as tits on a bull.

Them's our DINOs.

[Tactical Progressive]

44. Well, I'm disappointed, but so what

This jerk is only going to be around for another year. The next one Bush appoints will be just as bad, just more evasive about it.

I'd much rather see everyone involved in setting up torture as a valid US policy up to now get prosecuted.
But that isn't going to happen either.

[nosmokes]

45. So we have no opposition party now?

That's pretty much how I'm feeling. Who the hell is standing up for poor and the hungry? Who is standing up for the environment?Please tell me who is busting their ass to bring the troops home before even more lives are lost for a useless exercise in megalomania?

[Atman]

46. Actually, no one has voted anything yet. There is still time to flood their phones.

The vote isn't until Tuesday. There is still time to call them every two minutes and remind them of that they will become themselves torturers if they agree to recommend this nomination.

.

[EFerrari]

51. Feinstein faces no consequences at all. If you call her

do it for yourself, not for the outcome.

I don't know how many thousands of us called her before the invasion. She sent us a creepy, lying mass email and that was that.