OT: Lieberman & Graham threaten shut down congress
- From: jps <trash@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:03:04 -0700
If they didn't want to invite the risk of these things coming to
light, why in the hell weren't they stopped before they happened?
"Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
lambasted transparency advocates at a press conference Tuesday, when
they renewed their promise to bring Senate business to a halt until
their bill blocking the release of detainee photographs becomes law.
"We're not going to do any more business in the Senate," Graham said,
his face flushed red. "Nothing's going forward until we get this
right."
The duo's bill, which would allow the Pentagon to exempt Bush-era
photos from the Freedom of Information Act, was stripped from the
conference version of the war supplemental Monday night. In
anticipation of trouble, Lieberman and Graham had already inserted the
bill into the tobacco-regulatory legislation currently on the floor of
the Senate.
By turns sober and furious, the two senators vowed again Tuesday to
vote against -- and, if possible, filibuster -- the troop-funding bill
and all other legislation until they get their way. They equated the
weapons supplied by the war supplemental spending bill with detainee
photos that they said would serve as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida
and a weapon against U.S. troops.
"If these photos see the light of day, it will be a death sentence to
some serving abroad," Graham said. The removal of the photo amendment,
he said, "is one of the most outrageous and irresponsible acts in the
history of the Congress." He said the initial response to the Abu
Ghraib scandal was necessary and the punishments meted out were
appropriate. "
Again, was our leadership so stupid as to assume that a record of
these events wasn't going to see the light of day?
Swashbuckling idiots were running the show who apparently didn't
understand the laws of consequence. That's what happens when your
family extricates you from all blunders and you're able to get 5
deferments to avoid military service. Those two idiots screwed our
country in the ass until bloody.
Sickening.
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