S3930 - Detainee bill

[BigV]

MaggieL, you, and GWB, for that matter, pick and choose when precise speech is important, and when it is not. That makes "arguing" your point of view easier, but not more effective.

What's going on here is A Big Lie (tm), an enormous bait-and-switch. Bait and Switch? Yeah, the signing statements are a very popular example of these lies. We've been told and sold "WAR". But it's not, it cannot be, as you correctly pointed out. But "WAR" is nonetheless repeated endlessly for favorable the emotional and behavioral responses it elicits. We (the American people, including Congress, plus the mouse in my pocket) were fucking stampeded into "WAR" and now we're kept moving at this stupid killing pace (economically and emotionally, to say nothing of the squandered lives of our soldiers and citizens and the pissing away of our credibility as a world leader) by the incessant drumbeat of Fear! Terrorists! 9/11!

But we're a nation of laws, and those laws are broken with impunity by this administration. It makes me SICK. If there was some evidence of competence or credibility, there *could* be a place for the administration to
found my trust. but lacking any such foundation, there is *no* place to start. Show me the damn money, no more of this "Trust me" bullshit. Where is the balance in Checks and Balances?! GWB went "all in" and Congress folded. SCOTUS has called them, but that may/will change as the new players tag up and enter the ring. In every fair game I've ever played, that kind of collusion is most politely called cheating.

The sheer hubris of this administration is staggering. It is so vast, that the fall will shake the world and George W Bush's reign will live in infamy.