Dodd To Vote Against Mukasey for Attorney General

Oilwellian

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Mon Oct-29-07 10:50 AM
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Dodd To Vote Against Mukasey for Attorney General

Chris Dodd has just become the first Democrat to say he's voting against Michael Mukasey for AG. His reason: Mukasey's assertion that the President can overrule a Federal statute when the country's defenses are at risk.

Dodd's campaign emails over the following statement:

"Mr. Mukasey's position that the President does not have to heed the law disqualifies him from being the chief attorney for the United States. We have seen for too long, and at great expense to our national security, an Administration that has systematically attacked the rule of law and turned our Justice Department into a poltical wing of the White House. I'm afraid that Mr. Mukasey as Attorney General would be more of the same."

As on FISA, Dodd is again staking out a forward position on a critical legal and Constitutional question facing the country in a way sure to win him plaudits from Dem activists. What will the other Dem Senators running for President say on this?

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/10/dodd_to_vote_against_musakey_for_attorney_general.php

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BobRossi

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Mon Oct-29-07 11:07 AM
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1. I'm starting to like Dodd.

Perhaps I will find a candidate to give my vote to yet.

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spanone

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Mon Oct-29-07 11:08 AM
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2. no brainer, he supports the torture of human beings

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L. Coyote

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Mon Oct-29-07 11:21 AM
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3. Bush did not nominate someone who will say "Bush is a war criminal."

Bush put Dems between a rock and a hard spot by installing Kiesler, a Gonzo clone as Acting AG, to force acceptance of Mukasey.

The Dems have put the nominee in a tough position, asking him to state the obvious, that Bush and Gonzo, by their torture rulings and actions, committed war crimes. Mukasey has to hedge this one because to state the obvious, that waterboarding is torture, and in effect a crime punishable by the death penalty, is to call Bush and Gonzo war criminals.

The NEW Acting Attorney General = Peter Keisler = Who is he? Just a Gonzales CLONE?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1839232

WHO IS Michael B. Mukasey, Bush's nominee for United States Attorney General?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2044205

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