Senate bars bill to restore detainee rights

[onehandle]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday voted against considering a measure to restore to Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.

The legislation needed 60 votes to be considered by lawmakers in the Senate, narrowly controlled by Democrats; it received only 56, with 43 voting against the effort to rollback a key element of President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.

The measure would have restored to foreign terrorism suspects the right of habeas corpus, Latin for "have the body," which prevents the government from locking people up without review by a court.

Congress last year revoked this right for non-U.S. citizens labeled "enemy combatants" by the government. The Bush administration said this was necessary to prevent them from attacking Americans if set free.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070919/pl_nm/usa_congress_guantanamo_dc

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The rogue democrats who voted against this bill are

"enemy combatants" against the Constitution and the history of this country, IMO.

[redqueen]

3. Care to name those rogue democrats please? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

10. Just one - Lieberman the Dumbocrat

a cross between an elephant and jackass.

[redqueen]

12. He's NOT a Democrat. He's an independent.

Not ONE Dem voted wrong on this one. Not ONE.

[Xipe Totec]

27. You DO know I was yanking your chain?

:popcorn:

Of course I know he's not a Democrat.

But he's no independent either.

That's why I call him a Dumbocrat.

[redqueen]

28. Nope!

:blush:

That'd make him a dumbopendent, though, wouldn't it? :shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

31. Tried to make a joke involving an elephant and a donkey

Too much a a stretch. oh well....

:hi:

[DRoseDARs]

14. According to the Senate roll call vote, none of them. Then of course, there's Lieberman voting Yea.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00340

[redqueen]

18. And Lieberman is a what? An Independent!

And please... like we ALL don't know that he's really just a repuke who votes against the fascism party on a few issues.

[SteveG]

20. And five Republicans voted for it !

And should be commended for it.

Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Hagle (R-NE)

[bain_sidhe]

24. Stabenow is a Democrat

Jus' sayin'

[redqueen]

30. They didn't say six republicans.

just sayin :)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I've not seen the roll call yet, however I suspect Lieberman to be the only one not to vote aye

I know he's not a Democrat, but he is in our caucus which gives us 51.

We needed 60 votes for Cloture.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Here's the roll call

NAYs ---43
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Stevens (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

YEAs ---56
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00340

[Canuckistanian]

33. Hagel, Lugar, Sanders, Smith, Snowe and Sununu

All to be congratulated for voting for the bare minimum to keep Democracy alive.

The rest of the non-Democrats? Condemned to history.

A sad day for Democracy everywhere.

[Judi Lynn]

34. Thanks for posting the votes. Liebermann. Jesus. n/t

[redqueen]

2. Why not call it Habeas Corpus? And say that it was the Republicans who voted against it?

I hate the corporate whore media. Hate hate hate.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Most people have no idea what Habeas Corpus is

[redqueen]

6. God you're depressing.

;)

Kidding!


Seriously though... enough Republican voters know, and care, to make this an issue... I suspect that's why they don't come right out and say it.

[bullimiami]

the difference between the ds and rs. the republicans will fight and win with 41 votes.

the democrats cant win with a majority and wouldnt use their minority power to challenge anything.

pitiful.

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Tell that to John Bolton

[thoughtanarchist]

5. "The legislation needed 60 votes to be considered by lawmakers in the Senate"

No it didn't. It needed 60 cloture votes to withstand a filibuster.

However, it seemed to get dropped pretty quickly.

Why are we not forcing the Republicans to actually filibuster if they oppose the bill rather than just dropping the effort at the mere threat of filibuster?

...and why is it called filibuster when dems do it and when the pukes do it it's framed as "60 votes needed for consideration"?

Our media is long past the point of Pravda.

[redqueen]

7. More Pravdaness:

"Congress last year revoked this right for non-U.S. citizens labeled "enemy combatants" by the government"

Only for non-citizens, was it?

[thoughtanarchist]

11. ...even more:

"restore to Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts."

Not only framed as "non-citizens" but even more narrowly as "Guantanamo detainees"

[redqueen]

13. Gotta catapult that propoganda!

"Journalists" my ass.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Hey Reuters, the headline should read "GOP Bars Bill to Restore Detainee Rights."

[redqueen]

15. GOP Bars Bill to Restore HABEAS CORPUS. n/t

[0rganism]

23. How about "Republican senators block restoration of human rights to unconvicted prisoners"?

The press really does seem like a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP these days.

[KAZ]

32. Again with the FN headline from Yahoo. Same with the Webb

bill. That FN Yahoo editor better hope we never cross paths. Goebbels POS.

[Hawkeye-X]

17. That's why we need a filibuster-proof Senate in '08

So let's git r done!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. does that mean the government can still haul you into jail without rights too?

anyone could be set up to be an enemy combatant.

[Enrique]

22. bending over backwards not to say the GOP blocked it

I don't recall such creative wording when reporting on democratic filibusters, but I could be wrong.

[jaybeat]

25. 'Course not

Then it was something like "Democratic minority threatens to prevent vote"--the belly ache from the repukes being "We just think _______ deserves an up or down vote."

Now, I guess, not so much.

:puke:

[jaybeat]

26. Some headlines from the recent past

Senate Democrats Block 3 More Bush Judicial Nominees (Washington Post, Friday, July 23, 2004) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6017-2004Jul22.html

Democrats Block Vote On Bolton (Washington Post, Tuesday, June 21, 2005)
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062000402_pf.html

Democrats warned not to block Bush's judicial nominees (AP, November 17, 2006)
www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20061117-1620-judges-filibusters.html

Democrats Block a Vote on Bolton for the Second Time (NY Times, June 21, 2005)
www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/politics/21bolton.html?ex=1277006400&en=ff497d202481f119&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Roberts filibuster unlikely, 'Gang of 14' says (AP, 7/21/2005)
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-21-roberts-filibuster_x.htm

:grr:

[redqueen]

29. Course not... the whore media strikes again!

And some idiotic pukes STILL insist it's a liberal media!

:rofl:

It must be... interesting... being that fucking mentally deficient!