Slog - Comments on Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

Comment by maxsolomon

maxsolomon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:01:00 -0800

mmm.... freshly baked fascism!

what's it going to take to convince you, ms. pelosi? i don't even care if he's not convicted. i want his hand slapped in front of the rest of the planet.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:45 -0800

So does this mean all the Senators and Congressmen who oppose the war can have their shit taken away?

Comment by Levislade

Levislade — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:46 -0800

So, are the 52 Senators that would have voted to withdraw going to be first on that list? Yikes.

Comment by Cato the Younger Younger

Cato the Younger Younger — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:58 -0800

And even if a Democrat gets in the White House, do not expect them to recind this directive. The one rule of politics to remember is once you (or the position you are in) gains power, they never let it go.

The American Experiment has failed.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:11:29 -0800

Freedom costs a buck'o five.

Comment by submit

submit — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:12:46 -0800

@ 2 and 3: probably not those guys as they have a pretty big seat at the Power Table. But, if you were a troublesome peacenick and or environmental movement agitator (see fire-bombing extremist) I would think you would be fair game. It's hard not to look at these types of directives and their comments about "restoring the power of the executive" and not think they are planning some sort of bloodless, or even bloody I suppose, coup. That said, @4 is probably right regardless of the next president.

Comment by Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:12:51 -0800

@2 & 3 - No, it's only about people who have committed acts of violence or, vaguely, pose a "significant risk" of committing violent acts that undermine our glorious experiment in Iraq. The only thing Congress poses a significant risk of doing is Jack Shit.

Comment by Gitai

Gitai — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:19:09 -0800

I actually think this is his bridge too far. He's fucking with something at the heart of America: money. The first time he uses this against someone rich and inconvenient, all the other rich people will get scared and their pocketbooks will open up to the opposition. He'll be impeached in less than a week.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:26:55 -0800

@8,

Well, yeah. That's why he'll never use it to freeze the assets of Saudi royalty who finance bin Laden. This is only going to be used on people everyone hates.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:28:26 -0800

Oh, and who are mostly powerless.

Comment by SteveR

SteveR — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:30:09 -0800

If this country had any sensibility at all, we would've thrown this monkey in the trash bin years ago.

ITMFA!

@1- his HAND slapped? W needs to be taken out to the tool shed!

Comment by submit

submit — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:36:11 -0800

@ 11 - Sensibility is pre-9/11 thinking.

Comment by JessB

JessB — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:38:59 -0800

"The only thing Congress poses a significant risk of doing is Jack Shit."

Hear hear. Viva la revolution!

Comment by andy niable

andy niable — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:45:22 -0800

And the band plays on...

Comment by Katelyn

Katelyn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:49:53 -0800

This is really fucking scary.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:55:16 -0800

#11 The tool shed? W and Dick need to be sent to ass-rape prison.

Comment by chunkstyle

chunkstyle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:57:57 -0800

It seems to me that the property language is intended for use against people such as those who interfere with the movement of material. Think the Olympia protestors trying to block the shipments of body armor and the like from leaving the port.

Comment by Phenics

Phenics — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:56:20 -0800

What a horror. Did you also feel the temp drop with this news? The link I have below is a more than a little chilling as well and I hope (I hope, I hope, I hope) the former Reagan economist who wrote the story it links to might be the foil-hat wearing kook I would want him to be, but then, it reminded me of what Sandra Day O'Conner warned about 16 months ago...

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/170707_former_reagan.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/10/sandra-day-oconnor-warns_n_17093.html

Comment by maxsolomon

maxsolomon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:15:25 -0800

@ 11 & 16:

if he (and cheney) are impeached, but the senate doesn't convict, a al the mighty clenis in 1998, then all it amounts to is a slap on the wrist. or hand. whatever.

NO republican senator is going to vote to convict Bush & Cheney - they've propped this duo up for 7 years of utter incompetency. the trial will be for show only.

after all: President Pelosi, with her "San Francisco Values"? not in this millenium (although, if they tried it, they might like it...).

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:08:33 -0800

This just in (according to comcast.net):

"The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda."

They are getting a room ready for her in Gitmo.

Comment by Don

Don — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:29:47 -0800

You guys think there was an election in 2000? There wasn't. You think there was an election in 2004? Oops wrong again. This government was installed by the Corporations for the Corporations. The same Corporations that killed JFK. Oh yea did you know George Senior was in Dallas the day JFK was shot? Did you know he cant remember where he was on that day and still can't. Wake up America! There won't be an election in 2008! Just a dog and pony show! and yes they are going to have to admit soon WE ARE LIVING in an Up and Coming FACIST STATE!. Coming soon to a theatre near you!