Rebellion?
Polls have shown that Bush could be a liability in the fall elections. Consequently, Republicans up for reelection want the voters to perceive them as rebels. Republicans recognized that voters would not approve of the Dubai port deal because many of their constituents are unhappy about globalization, and hostile toward Arabs.
Bush’s domestic spying program ignored the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and violated the law. Bush, Congress, and the public know it, but Bush was allowed to simply proclaim the law doesn't apply to him. The response from these so called Republican rebels was to legitimatize the president's crime by refusing to investigate and then rewriting the law to legalize warrantless spying.
For six years, Republicans have conducted no serious investigation, nor assigned accountability regarding the American soldiers and intelligence agents that abuse prisoners. They seem to advocate the practice of sending suspects to other countries to be tortured and even killed. Congressional and Bush negotiators watered down John McCain’s anti-torture law, and after it passed Bush immediately claimed it really didn’t apply to him anyway. Instead, Republicans passed another law, which encourages the abuse of prisoners, by allowing the use of coerced evidence at hearings on the prisoners' status.
After 9/11, Mr. Bush created a network of prisons outside the American legal system so he could hold suspects indefinitely without hearings. The Supreme Court said twice that Bush was reaching beyond his powers. The Republicans in Congress responded by rising up as one, and legalized the president's actions. Bush’s bogus rebels in Congress told the courts that they could no longer rule on these matters. Bush made sure the message was loud and clear, by sending his lawyers out to inform the judges, including the Supreme Court, that they had to drop all the cases that were already before them.
The Senate continues to help the White House cover up the cherry picking of intelligence on Iraq. With rebels like these in open rebellion, who needs loyalists?
Bush’s domestic spying program ignored the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and violated the law. Bush, Congress, and the public know it, but Bush was allowed to simply proclaim the law doesn't apply to him. The response from these so called Republican rebels was to legitimatize the president's crime by refusing to investigate and then rewriting the law to legalize warrantless spying.
For six years, Republicans have conducted no serious investigation, nor assigned accountability regarding the American soldiers and intelligence agents that abuse prisoners. They seem to advocate the practice of sending suspects to other countries to be tortured and even killed. Congressional and Bush negotiators watered down John McCain’s anti-torture law, and after it passed Bush immediately claimed it really didn’t apply to him anyway. Instead, Republicans passed another law, which encourages the abuse of prisoners, by allowing the use of coerced evidence at hearings on the prisoners' status.
After 9/11, Mr. Bush created a network of prisons outside the American legal system so he could hold suspects indefinitely without hearings. The Supreme Court said twice that Bush was reaching beyond his powers. The Republicans in Congress responded by rising up as one, and legalized the president's actions. Bush’s bogus rebels in Congress told the courts that they could no longer rule on these matters. Bush made sure the message was loud and clear, by sending his lawyers out to inform the judges, including the Supreme Court, that they had to drop all the cases that were already before them.
The Senate continues to help the White House cover up the cherry picking of intelligence on Iraq. With rebels like these in open rebellion, who needs loyalists?
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