Bush Not Satisfied - Demands Further Capitulation

[kpete]

Monday, August 06, 2007
Bush Not Satisfied - Demands Further Capitulation

From His Signing Statement:

While I appreciate the leadership it took to pass this bill, we must remember that our work is not done. This bill is a temporary, narrowly focused statute to deal with the most immediate shortcomings in the law.

When Congress returns in September the Intelligence committees and leaders in both parties will need to complete work on the comprehensive reforms requested by Director McConnell, including the important issue of providing meaningful liability protection to those who are alleged to have assisted our Nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070805.html

[jojo54]

1. In other words,

fall in line with the other sheeple.

Forget it asshole!!

[Beelzebud]

2. They'll give him everything he wants. They haven't said "no" to anything yet.

[A wise Man]

3. Why would congress continue to let this corrupt thieving crook

dictate to them???

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Because he's their Dictator.

[MessiahRp]

4. Sounds like he's talking about himself and Republicans...

"Alleged to have assisted our nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001"

Rp

[Canuckistanian]

6. I don't understand this

"liability protection" for those who are "alleged" to have assisted the U.S.?

[seafan]

10. Shields for telecommunications giants, private data gatherers is what I think.

Those third party entities that have data mined and allowed eavesdropping on all of us through their equipment, to allow Bush to *sweep it all up, things related and not.*


Bush wants to protect his hit men.

[Canuckistanian]

15. OK, that makes sense

But it's a stupid way to word it.

I guess it was the best legalese they could come up with to say "protect our co-conspirators".

[GOTV]

16. Would it not protect the administration as well?

[Canuckistanian]

18. No. That's why they use the contractors.

That way, they can claim that the telecom company went too far and exceeded their authority.

It's a CYA masterpiece.

[Double T]

7. Give THIS psychopath an inch and he'll want a trillion miles............

What the hell can the Dems in congress be thinking? The military industrial complex and wall street have a stranglehold on our government and the future of this nation.

[liberal N proud]

8. There is no satisfying this spoiled little brat

He will demand more and more power from Congress. The question is when will Congress finally get the balls to stop him?

[opihimoimoi]

9. He is a NPD guy...he never apologizes, only dictates/controls/manipulates.

BULLIES are not good in the work place...never good when placed in POWER...the GOP has done great Harm to America when they backed Bush 2X knowing he is deficent in neuron counts, and with a poor history filled with failure.

The GOP has their lip prints all over Bushies ass....they will soon pay the price...

[WinkyDink]

11. Bush is pre-emptively seeking to protect CRIMINALS, by demanding retroactive de-criminalizing of

their deeds.
"Alleged" is language normally used for CRIMINAL SUSPECTS.

Good thing impeachment is off the table. How else would Pelosi and Reid sit there and break bread with this criminally-insane man?

[Bitwit1234]

12. QUESTION...can anybody answer??

It has been almost six years since the attack on the twin towers. WHY is bush just starting to beat the drum about going after those who are alleged to have helped attack us. Is it because he can't bump up the terror he has to go somewhere else to try to scare people.

[WinkyDink]

13. "alleged to have ASSISTED...."

[MasonJar]

14. He is the number one liability!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kpete]

17. hmmmmmmmmmmmm

"Apparently 'allegedly helped us stay safe' is Bush Administration code for telecom companies and government officials who participated in a conspiracy to perform illegal surveillance," wrote Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin in a Monday morning blog post. "Because what they did is illegal, we do not admit that they actually did it, we only say that they are alleged to have done it."

Balkin also offered another amusing interpretation of Bush's words.

"Or perhaps the Administration is suggesting that although such parties are alleged to have helped the country stay safe, there's no evidence that their repeated violations of federal law actually did much to promote our security," he quipped.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/After_wiretapping_victory_Bush_says_he_0806.html