Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
"We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning."
-- Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of alleged terrorists,
the New York Times, May 21
If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.
The latest flip-flop is the restoration of military tribunals. During the 2008 campaign, Obama denounced them repeatedly, calling them an "enormous failure." Obama suspended them upon his swearing-in. Now they're back.
Of course, Obama will never admit in word what he's doing in deed. Continue here.
And now, this video is full of chuckles, but I don't find it funny...at all.
Congress figures out way to assure the public they’ve read the bills they’re voting on.
Your tax dollars at work...
The worst part is that the commentator acts stunned (or pretends to, unsurprisingly not all that convincingly) by the double faced rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteHe's a Chicago Democrat for C*****'s Sake. He was born and raised politically with a lie in each pocket and another up each sleeve.
Chicago Politics are like that.
Always have been.
I would dare say they probably always will be too, unless the Indiana Dunes get melted into a glass platter by some rogue terrorist group that gets hold of an Hbomb, taking out the other side of the lake with it.