About That Rebellion ...NYT Edit

[kpete]

Editorial
About That Rebellion ...


Published: March 11, 2006
We keep hearing that the Republicans in Congress are in revolt against the president.

Some rebellion.

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The idea that a happy few are charging the White House ramparts is ridiculous. Republican lawmakers don't just turn a blind eye when they learn that the president is making profoundly bad choices, like cutting constitutional corners, abrogating treaties and even breaking the law. They actually legalize the president's misdeeds.

Take domestic spying, held up as another area of Republican revolt. The program violates the law. Congress knows it. The public knows it. Even President Bush knows it. (He just says the law doesn't apply to him.) In response, the Capitol Hill rebels are boldly refusing to investigate the program — or any other warrantless spying that is going on. They are trying to rewrite the law to legalize warrantless spying. And meanwhile, they've created new subcommittees to help the president go on defying the law.

Over the last couple of years, Republican lawmakers have been given proof that American soldiers and intelligence agents abused, tortured and even killed prisoners, or sent them to other countries to be tortured. Without hesitation, the Republicans did nothing — no serious investigation, no accountability.

Congressional and White House negotiators then watered down the new anti-torture law, which Mr. Bush said did not really apply to him anyway. And they passed another law actually encouraging the abuse of prisoners by allowing the use of coerced evidence at hearings on the prisoners' status.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/opinion/11sat1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[acmavm]

1. Okay, it's Saturday. Score one for the NYT. But remember, they'll be

back covering bush**s ass by tomorrow.

[file83]

2. Good point - NYT "some rebellion"!!!

What this op-ed criticizes Congress for, the NYT (and the rest of the MSM) are also guilty of (except for making the laws part, obviously).

Take this paragraph for instance:

Over the last couple of years, Republican lawmakers have been given proof that American soldiers and intelligence agents abused, tortured and even killed prisoners, or sent them to other countries to be tortured. Without hesitation, the Republicans did nothing — no serious investigation, no accountability.

We could easily change that last sentence to:
Without hesitation, the NYT did nothing — no serious investigation, no accountability.

It seems that finally, now that all of our warnings and predictions about the fate of the country in Bush's hands has come TRUE, everyone one ELSE is jumping on the Band Wagon. Here comes the NYT (+MSM) to the rescue! Wow, thanks for the heads up! :sarcasm: