The NYTimes says Congress has a moral responsibility....

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/opinion/07sun1.html

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The Democratic majority in Congress has a moral responsibility to address all these issues: fixing the profound flaws in the military tribunals act, restoring the rule of law over Mr. Bush’s rogue intelligence operations and restoring the balance of powers between Congress and the executive branch. So far, key Democrats, including Mr. Leahy and Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, chairman of a new subcommittee on human rights, have said these issues are high priorities for them.

We would lend such efforts our enthusiastic backing and hope Mr. Leahy, Mr. Durbin and other Democratic leaders are not swayed by the absurd notion circulating in Washington that the Democrats should now “look ahead” rather than use their new majority to right the dangerous wrongs of the last six years of Mr. Bush’s one-party rule.

This is a false choice. Dealing with these issues is not about the past. The administration’s assault on some of the nation’s founding principles continues unabated. If the Democrats were to shirk their responsibility to stop it, that would make them no better than the Republicans who formed and enabled these policies in the first place.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Congress has a CONSTITUTIONAL responsibility to fix the last six years. n/t

[omega minimo]

6. Congress has a CONSTITUTIONAL responsibility to fix the last six years

[Drum]

9. Congress has a CONSTITUTIONAL responsibility to fix the last six years

...Just repeating a great phrase, in the interest of brevity and emphasis.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[dweller]

19. Congress had a Constitutional

for the last six years, and it's time they shat or got off the pot.

start with flushing the *turd and his cronies from power.

use the back issues of NYTimid for TP...
dp

[mmonk]

2. This is most important and those that want to ignore

what has happened for popularity or power reasons have no useful right to represent my vote.

"This is a false choice. Dealing with these issues is not about the past. The administration’s assault on some of the nation’s founding principles continues unabated. If the Democrats were to shirk their responsibility to stop it, that would make them no better than the Republicans who formed and enabled these policies in the first place."

That is so correct.

[babylonsister]

3. WOW! I never thought I'd see the day when I can rejoice over a NY Times

article, but this is one!
Thank you, kentuck!

[babylonsister]

4. Major NOM! nt

[TahitiNut]

5. From the employer of Judith Miller we hear about "moral" what??

(sheesh!) Let's hear about those WMD again, NYT. :eyes:

[madrchsod]

7. the new york times? really.... this is`t an onion article?

my, my,is the old grey lady tired of fucking the whitehouse?

[CatWoman]

8. exactly!!

where the fuck where they when the GOP-led Congress was running amok?

[ninkasi]

23. I do believe

that when the GOP controlled Congress, they were shivering in their little mouse-holes, afraid to come out. Now that we control Congress, they can come out of their little holes, and make squeaking noises demanding that WE clean up the elephant shit.

[tomp]

26. you mean it is a liberal media? nt

[Drum]

11. Ha!

:rofl:!!

[Mind_your_head]

10. WHY THE HELL WEREN'T THEY SCREAMING FOR THIS

WHEN THE REPUBLICS were in charge for the LAST SIX DAMN HORRIBLE years!!!!!

B*stards!!!!! Hope they choke on their own vomit!!! B*stards!

[salin]

12. Indeed! Didn't they sit on the NSA domestic spying story

for *more* than a year - had the info *before* the 2004 election - but didn't break the story until around december of 2005.

There is a word for that: COMPLICIT.

[kentuck]

13. Not to defend the Times but...

I think they now feel like an ol' Grey Lady scorned... and lied to by this Administration and they are intent on giving this White House as much hell as they can for the next 2 years. They now see how they were used by Bush and gang. They have no one to blame but themselves but all they can now is to let the world know what type of people are leading this nation. We cannot forgive their going along with this White House before the election but we should not ignore the truth when they are speaking it...

[salin]

15. we can only hope

color me still skeptical... but I can still hope that your scenario is the case.

[Mind_your_head]

16. Sorry, I won't buy into that.....

They're just "following the ways the winds are blowing". No, actually they are WORSE than that! The NYT (or ANY Media, you know the 'fourth estate') has a RESPONSIBILITY ~ A MORAL DUTY ~ to present the facts as they find them to the public.

The gall, THE UNMITIGATED GALL!!!! they have to say the new Democratic Congress has a moral duty to blah, blah, blah....when the NYT and the other MSM media has so HORRIBLY not LIVED UP TO THEIR OWN DUTIES!!!!! They NEVER asked the hard questions or called the adminstration on ANYTHING they did - EVER! They supported the corruption by *not saying a freakin' word'.

How DARE they they point fingers as to what the Dems should do now.....when they never said a word about the Republics were doing THEN!!!

I'll say it again....b*stards!!!! Freakin' lyin' corrupt COMPLICIT b*stards!!!

Spittin' Nails of Fire Here,

M_Y_H

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[mzmolly]

21. EXCELLENT rant!

Talk about audacity.

[WiseButAngrySara]

14. Oh Please! The NYTimes dictating MORAL Responsibility?

And where has their's been during this long endless nightmare of B*'s Regime?

[nolabels]

17. Didn't ya hear, they were tradin theirs in for a few trinkets from Wall Street.

MORAL Responsibility must seem a little too trifle to big buck marketeers like them

[w4rma]

18. And what should be the Republican minority's "moral responsibility" for causing this mess? (nt)

[babylonsister]

20. Wow, I am humbled, and have been played. The NYT got me.

The thing is, I think the Dems are up to the task, despite what you think of the NYTimes or who put us into this assinine and dangerous situation.
Someone has got to fix it. I hope the Dems have the wherewithal and hutzpa to do it. And even as of now, FUCK those rethugs who failed so miserably. Whatever the Dems do, it will be better than what came before.

[pacalo]

22. No more free ride for this nightmarish presidency. Impeachment NOW.

The law is clear on this. A warrant is required to open Americans’ mail under a statute that was passed to stop just this sort of abuse using just this sort of pretext. But then again, the law is also clear on the need to obtain a warrant before intercepting Americans’ telephone calls and e-mail. Mr. Bush began openly defying that law after Sept. 11, 2001, authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop without a court order on calls and e-mail between the United States and other countries.

[JI7]

24. what a bunch of gross whores, how about the fucking administration

led by the chimpanzee

[Nutmegger]

25. They HELD the wiretapping story for over a year!

STFU NYTimes.