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[torasama.livejournal.com]

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[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Um...what?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They found your diary, man!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

*Gaspeth*

[i.livejournal.com]

win

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

My diary has much better doodles!

[weswilson]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-05/are-republicans-blackmailing-obama/full/

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

"It's unclear whether the claims of Horton's source are true. It sounds more like a responsibility-shifting excuse than anything else -- a way of blaming Republicans rather than Obama officials for the failure to disclose these memos -- but it doesn't matter in the slightest if the claims are true. There is absolutely no justification whatsoever to continue to conceal these memos, and the fact that the GOP will stomp its feet and obstruct nominees doesn't come close to constituting an excuse for ongoing concealment."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/memos/

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Yeah but this is counter to the Obama administration "pulling a Bush" (heh) by arguing that all your (terrorist) base are ours and you can't sue us because of our wiretapping (state secrets and all).

Releasing the memos would lend weight to the accusation that the government is "self publishing" its anti-terrorism policies and thus welcoming inquiries and possible lawsuits based on those policies.

Thus my "wut?" response to the cartoon.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009/04/call-that-bluff-immediately.html

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

I don't understand.

So the people who did the torture are using torture as a threat to prevent the release of the torture memos.

The Obama Administration is continued delay of release of the torture memos, so how exactly they're pinning a big GOP elephant on all of this now, I don't really understand.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/memos/

Are the two unmasked people specific people?

[torasama.livejournal.com]

From your article, emphasis mine:

"Today, in The Daily Beast, Horton -- citing an anonymous Obama DOJ source and an anonymous Senate GOP source -- claims that Senate Republicans are now "blackmailing" Obama by threatening to filibuster the confirmation of two Obama legal appointees (Dawn Johnsen as head of the OLC and Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel) unless Obama agrees not to release these OLC memos."

I think the point is "who're the terrorists now?"

[epikaste.livejournal.com]

I think this is in bad taste, however weighty the subject.

[pragmatic-chimp.livejournal.com]

I agree 100%.

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[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

So wrong, so right.

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why the libs are so afraid of Rush Limbaugh.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Because he's insane, and half the nation hangs on his every word.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/tags/rush_limbaugh

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Because the last time he fired up the base Republicans won the House for the first time in forty years.

Yet Democrats seem determined to goad him into doing just that all over again when he was clearly happy enjoying his "multi-millions". :D

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about the other guy but Republicans are dicussing the filibuster against Dawn Johnsen because she is not just pro-choice but pro-abortion. She has claimed that not being allowed to have an abortion is the same as slavery and should be covered under the 13th amendment.

But you can believe what people have been saying about her for the last couple weeks or some anonymous source in a left-wing blog.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

OMG WIN

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Tragic Epic Fail

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

THREAD OVER SO DECLARED.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Fucking hell you guys, you've just broken Capitalism, why must you break Democracy as well?

YOU ARE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHA!