Will paddles McCain hard over McCain's less-than-informed criticism of the Guantanamo ruling:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...061602041.html

Will is a conservative who understands what "limited government" means, and why it still applies even during wartime -- especially in a "war" against something as amorphous as "terrorism."

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Best part:

I also like the quote by John Marshall because as a libertarian it's in the core of my being. You do not really have limited or separate powers when you can pass laws making your power unlimited.

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Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

All this pandering to the far-right by McFlippityFloppity is hurting his reputation.

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
"Did you know that Republicans are stupid and evil?" -Bill O'Reilly, Feb 2010

OH PLEASE! Like you would have voted for him anyway!

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If trees could scream would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?.........

We would if they screamed all the time and for no good reason! - Jack Handy

I still might. Election still several months away. Lotsa things can happen.

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
"Did you know that Republicans are stupid and evil?" -Bill O'Reilly, Feb 2010

I don't get your "woodshed" comment. It sounds to me more like he's simply trying to make the case that McCain doesn't really understand the ruling. Will says..." None will be released by the court's decision, which does not even guarantee a right to a hearing. Rather, it guarantees only a right to request a hearing. Courts retain considerable discretion regarding such requests." That's good news, IMHO---IF Will is correct on the reading of the ruling. However, considering at the end of the article George Will makes an unrelated admission of an error in something he'd stated about Cuba.....I'd say even George Will doesn't always get HIS own facts straight!!

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

That, too. But mostly he's making the case that McCain doesn't understand the foundational importance of habeas corpus.

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Perhaps so. But I agree with Scalia who said that "the nation will come to regret this court's ruling today." Add that to the fact that Obama wants to go back to treating terrorism like a common criminal offense as Bill Clinton did----and it's a recipe for disaster if he's elected.

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was unhappy: "I am deeply disappointed in what I think is a tremendously dangerous and irresponsible ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. ... The court has conferred upon civilian judges the right to make military decisions. These judges have virtually no training in military matters yet civilian judges, in some of the most liberal district courts in the country, will have an opportunity to determine who is a threat to the United States."

Exactly!! So, where do you think these detainees will choose to take their cases? Most likely the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco.

"Roberts filed a separate dissent, defending the alternative process to judicial hearings, calling them "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants."

I agree with Judge Roberts. So, these detainees who have never stepped foot on our soil and are not Americans or anything close, are being given OUR rights. They were given "the most generous set of procedural protections EVER afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants"------BUT apparently for the libs on the court (and George Will) this isn't enough.

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

Does anyone know how we handled enemy combatants prior to 9/11? What procedural protections did we give them previously, if any? Did we actually detain aliens classed as enemy combatants before Gitmo?

I'm curious as I have no idea. I mean, I would think we have, but it's not something I've ever heard addressed specifically.

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Maggie.