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June 30, 2006

How many divisions do you have?

Here's what you find in the restrooms of the White House and the RNC...

Update below

Hey, Supremes? How many divisions do you have? I ask this because of your recent ruling against Commandante Bush. You see, Bush owns the military, he owns Guantanamo, he's signed over 700 "signing statements" opting himself from laws passed by Congress. If anyone thinks this pack of crooks and con men are going to be moved by the OTHER branch of the government all I can offer you is hysterical laughter. It's probably not so notable that Scalia, Thomas and, now, Alito (and thank you very much for that, Joe Lieberman) voted for the Commandante to eviscerate the Constitution. To the rest of the world who once admired the United States I say, "Welcome to the Banana Republic of America."

It should be obvious that the only way for the Democrats to dispossess these RICO's (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) otherwise known as the Republican Party is to get WAY MORE than the 50% plus 1 needed to win a real election. Probably something like 60% of the popular vote and 60% of the electoral vote. There is only so much that crooked electronic voting and tossed and purged voter rolls can be expected to do.

Fortunately, there's a hint in the air, a tantalizing wiff, that that just might happen, but then the question is, "How many divisions do you have, America?"

Washington Post: High Court Rejects Detainee Tribunals

The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the military commissions President Bush established to try suspected members of al-Qaeda, emphatically rejecting a signature Bush anti-terrorism measure and the broad assertion of executive power upon which the president had based it.

Brushing aside administration pleas not to second-guess the commander in chief during wartime, a five-justice majority ruled that the commissions, which were outlined by Bush in a military order on Nov. 13, 2001, were neither authorized by federal law nor required by military necessity, and ran afoul of the Geneva Conventions.

As a result, no military commission can try Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former aide to Osama bin Laden whose case was before the justices, or anyone else, unless the president does one of two things he has resisted doing for more than four years: operate the commissions by the rules of regular military courts-martial, or ask Congress for specific permission to proceed differently.

Update: Those staunch defenders of the Constitution are already on the job...

Raw Story: Senators move to reverse effects of Supreme Court decision against Guantanamo commissions

Posted by fightingdem at June 30, 2006 10:48 AM
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