Right wing threatens Obama over torture charges

[Hannah Bell]

24 April 2009

Wednesday’s lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal threatens President Obama with all-out opposition to any effort to hold Bush administration officials responsible for authorizing torture ...Denouncing Obama’s half-hearted criticism of the Bush administration’s torture policy as “Presidential Poison,” the leading right-wing voice of the American financial aristocracy warns, “His invitation to indict Bush officials will haunt Obama’s Presidency."

The commentary reveals the increasingly bitter character of the political crisis that has erupted in ruling circles in the wake of last week’s release of classified Bush administration memos...The Journal declares: “...By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.”

...The Journal presses its attack by warning that, in the event of an investigation into torture, prominent Democrats would be implicated, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002...

...The conclusion of the Journal editorial is especially ominous: “By indulging his party’s desire to criminalize policy advice, he has unleashed furies that will haunt his Presidency.” Given the source — a newspaper owned by billionaire reactionary Rupert Murdoch, closely linked to the highest circles of the financial oligarchy and the military-intelligence apparatus — this language must be understood as a threat...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a24.shtml

[EFerrari]

1. "We're going to huff, we're going to puff, we're going to turn ourselves blue!'

lol

[NC_Nurse]

2. Booga, booga! Same shit, different day. Be afraid, be very afraid.

:boring:

[peace13]

3. Please do us a favor and take out all of the bad wood.

We need honest Representatives who will work for the people.

[gratuitous]

4. IF there are Democrats implicated, let 'em hang too

See Republicans and Wall Street Journal? That's how it works: If you break the law, there's nothing "partisan" about calling for prosecution. But I believe the torture regime of the Bush administration is "bipartisan" the same way Jack Abramoff was a bipartisan briber. He just never quite delivered checks to Democrats, that's all.

Let's get it all out, or the latent poison will poison the whole system.

[aquart]

5. Cowardly right wing afraid to punish torturers.

[islandgirl808]

6. yeaaa

not so comfortable with the "this language must be understood as a threat..." part....

[walldude]

7. Laughable... First of all, it's not up to Obama,

it's up to the justice dept. And second if Democrats are involved then we want them punished too. This isn't about "party" it's about crime.

They are scared shitless. We need to keep the pressure on.

[B Calm]

8. Sorry, but it wasn't President Obama who injected a poison into our politics. . .

Are all cons GOOBERS, or just the majority of them?

[liberalmuse]

9. There are some vile human beings in this country.

I mean, what kind of person supports and tries to justify torture? This is making me seriously ill.

[Larkspur]

10. We are listening to the death throws of the right wing

And I love the sound of it. Obama needs to adopt FDR's willingness to tackle the economic royalists. If Obama's DOJ does not investigate and prosecute those who committed war crimes, including Bush and Cheney, then Obama is breaking his oath of office to uphold the law and saying that the law does not apply to the elite.

[NYC_SKP]

11. pssst.

"Throes"... "Death Throes", not "throws". :P

[frogcycle]

12. I was picturing them throwing up

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

13. Works for me!

It's their turn after decades of making us :puke:

:rofl:

[DBoon]

14. well, they impeached Clinton over bad sex

what's the matter, illegal torture isn't enough now?

[frogcycle]

15. bad sex?

I never heard that it was bad.

[DBoon]

16. OK, improper sex

I didn't read Ken Starr's ode to sexually frustrated republicans end-to-end, so I don't really know how much the parties enjoyed their liaison

[BeFree]

17. Idiots

If the right wing wants to save any face at all, they will demand Justice.

I guess they figure Bushco is more important than Justice.

[spanone]

18. fuck murdoch, his faux news and wall street urinal

[L0oniX]

19. Rupert Murdoch ...that says it all.

[Joanne98]

20. I thought they hated Bush cause he is a socialist?

What happened? lol