Leahy and Specter Introduce Bill to Restore Habeas...

[bridgit]

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/12/7/21717/1644

[peacetalksforall]

1. Best news of the day. Our heros! Kick. Recommend.

[MrCoffee]

9. "Our heros"? You're kidding, right?

Leahy and Reid let Specter and McCain take the lead on the MCA. Specter and McCain raced to be the first to give the WH exactly what it wanted.

Specter knew that his amendment was a ruse when it was first debated. The Republicant's run a tighter ship, they knew what the vote count was.

This bill is going nowhere fast.

[bridgit]

10. Leahy's plea for the retention of habeas was clearly passionate...

more so than many standing around him at the time, his points regarding it's loss every bit as much so; to suggest Leahy & Reid "let" republicans do anything in that phony-ass rubber stamp environ is to have missed the point contained within the concept of a rubber stamp senate imo

while one cannot deny the wheels may turn slowly, i do not believe the "bill is going nowhere fast"

[peacetalksforall]

12. OK maybe I don't understand it. I haven't kept up to date on

what has been going on. If it's just hash, why would Leahy take part? Can you say more?

[bullimiami]

wait till w vetos it.

[MrCoffee]

3. exactamundo. i'll not bother holding my breath on this one.

[bridgit]

6. sure & why not, he's already recognized as the biggest sociopathic...

minded war profiteer on the world scene so what's one more transgression against the american people & their government...but g.w. bush will pass as well

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Good the pushback has begun

[Lex]

4. yes

:thumbsup:

[bridgit]

8. correct...

[G_Leo_Criley]

5. thanks -- needed that! k&r

:kick:


glc

[Captain Hilts]

7. Yaaaaay nt

[Supersedeas]

11. how long before Specter folds?

[bridgit]

13. i say he runs up some form of flag Jan, 07...

:)

[FogerRox]

14. Leahys bill deals with Habeus for Detainees...

for Non citizens, right? What about my habeus, if I am declared an enemy combatant.....

[bridgit]

15. if you listen to the way some folks position the matter...

we are the detainees

[FogerRox]

20. Leahys bill restores Habeus for NON citizens...

Dodds bill restore Habeus for citizens & non citizens.

[focusfan]

16. i sure hope they reinstate Habeas Coupus

[bridgit]

17. me too...

[OneBlueSky]

18. noble gesture, but if they're going to attack problems piecemeal . . .

then they're planning to accomplish the minimum possible to keep the rabble from revolting . . . there are many things wrong with the Military Commissions Act beyond habeus, and the whole mess should be tossed and replaced (if it's really necessary) with something more, well, Constitutional . . . same for the Patriot Act . . .

[bridgit]

19. most agreed, sad to think we have larger problems to solve than the loss...

or infringement upon habeas corpus...but there it is