tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post1807794506083427845..comments2024-03-18T06:42:35.329-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: The U.S. Of Cowardice: Still No Accountability For Torture Regime PerpsShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-73355002807978138442014-04-29T22:53:37.353-04:002014-04-29T22:53:37.353-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415375762436798415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-33838147148699288452014-04-09T18:07:20.615-04:002014-04-09T18:07:20.615-04:00I second that emotion. Wouldn't it be the iron...I second that emotion. Wouldn't it be the irony of ironies if the closest we got to a real debate on such issues was the dust-up between the Cheneys and Rand Paul?<br /> <br />I hadn't heard that Mukasey's Paradox thing put so forthrightly. It's obviously a corollary to the Nixon-to-Frost contention: "When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal." Or perhaps, divine right of kings.<br /> <br />M'lady's still madly in love with Obama. And while I surely prefer him to the alternatives that were posed, and I'm enough of a student of realpolitick to know that compromises must sometimes be made, there have definitely been numerous occasions where he erred on the side of political caution over principal. I blamed some of that earlier on unwise counsel from Rahm Emanuel, but he's long gone to sweet home Chicago. And you rightly note that playing ball with the GOP is a long lost cause, as he himself demonstrates now with his pay-equity brickbats. I can only assume that some Emanuel acolyte or someone of similar disposition is warning him away from stands deemed "too progressive" in the run-up to the fall election, as he seeks to offer meager coattails to whomever can use them.<br /><br />But I harbor no great hopes that, after November, he'll develop fresh spine to wage such battles if public opinion still isn't there yet..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com