Comments on: Obama Unleashes The Spanish Inquisition

By: danbmil99

danbmil99 — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:43:12 +0000

The term “psychotic death spiral” comes to mind. The inability to admit mistakes is exactly what (almost) everyone hated about GWB. The GOP is acting exactly the same way on this (and many other) issues.You could add the no-new-ideas policy of deregulation and lower taxes as the way out of our financial mess. Did they not watch the news since September? We just had a 100-year meltdown of financial markets, after pretty much 30 years of deregulation and lower taxes. How can they make that argument, without even adding a little twist or two so people can stomach it? Who are they selling to, besides themselves?

By: gibberish

gibberish — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:35:38 +0000

If Spain had tortured Americans wouldn’t there be investigations?

By: ottovbvs

ottovbvs — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:50:48 +0000

These memos were the subject of a legal process that would almost certainly have resulted in their publication. Most of the contents were in the public domain anyway. Obama did the right thing although to some extent he was making a virtue of necessity. This whole issue is a total loser for the GOP so I’m at a loss to understand their desire to cling onto it. It merely serves to tie the party ever more closely to what even many conservatives grudgingly admit was one of the most disastrous and ineffective presidencies in US history. And we want to make Cheney the spokesman for the party? I read a piece by Larry Kudlow this morning applauding this as a good idea. I’d say it makes as much sense as the 18 months he spent telling us we were in a Goldilocks economy.

By: danbmil99

danbmil99 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:27:30 +0000

This is a loser for the GOP. Throw Bush and Cheney under the bus already for God's sake. They've brought your party to its knees. The mob wants blood, and it will get it one way or another.

Take a principled stand, stop whining about "24" reruns as if no one has ever studied ethics before. Supporting immoral behavior with random thought experiments about ticking time bombs is for sophomore philo students. This is serious stuff, and the Left has taken the moral high ground.

If Bush/Cheney had towed the line on true conservative principles, I would understand this loyalty. But as it turns out, they have as much contempt for that ideology as they do for liberalism. Why protect them from their own stupidity? Obviously, if they were going to behave like their counterparts in "24", they should have read the script -- get some bad-ass who loves his country so much he'll bend the rules and give you deniability. Nixon could have taught these jokers a thing or two.

Sheesh.