Feb 11 2009
M’Kay, Then
Via RS, this interesting tidbit from the LA Times.
Reporting from Washington — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners.
She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges.
I have this sense of déjà vu . . . isn’t this the Bush Administration’s position, the one that sparked so much furious idiocy among Democrats who wanted to coddle terrorists and lick their backsides and search for “root causes”?
Where’s the outrage? Where is the moaning and hand-wringing about the poor, oppressed terrorists? Where are the giant puppet heads and naked bicycle protests?
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Yeah, well, not to worry. If they keep the Gitmo detainees locked up, the libs will get a fresh shipment of Paleoswinian immigrants to coddle, thanks to our gracious invitation via the steaming stimulus bill.
nice little tidbit. I think we’re going to see a lot of these contradictions for the next 4 (and hopefully just 4) years.
Being the eternal optimist, I’d say: “Thank God for small mercies.” At least they’re not totally insane.