Opening up relations with Cuba is how you help Cuban people be less oppressed. Not opening up means you don’t care about them.

Castro has survived 45 years of US embargo getting rich, as you say. That’s the most patient piece of US foreign policy I can think of. (Contrast that with Bush, who had so little time for those UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.)

The reason for continuing the embargo is the Cuban-American vote in Florida plays a role in some of our closer elections — it is not to prevent Castro from becoming a wealthier individual.

While I agree that parental rights should prevail in in all cases like these, I don’t think it’s necessarily crazy to suggest that the kids relatives thought he’d have a better shot at life in the United States than he would in a communist island country like Cuba.

But that’s just me. Maybe Oliver thinks differently than I do.

Must explain why he also mentioned the “We’re in Iraq under false pretenses” argument during his screed.

Yep, he’s absolutely a Republican wolf in Democratic sheep’s clothing.

Well, when you say things like, “So you see, it is very important to me that  my side is in charge. It is more important that your side is not.” I get the distinct impression that you’ll do nothing to hold your party accountable as long as they hold power. Which is, again, why we currently see the mountain of scandals rocking the GOP power structure to it’s very core. Republican constituents, like yourself, let their party get fat gorging at the public trough. They’ve become more corrupt than the Democrats you constantly seek to villify. It’s taking a heavy toll on the American economy, our morale, and our image abroad. Hopefully in ‘06, it’s going to take it’s toll on the GOP, and conservatism at large, as well.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

pedro: Between Gonzales and Gore the issue is not which one has the better law credentials, the issue is which one is lying. Answer: Gonzales.

They are spending way too much money on silly, unnecessary projects of every type and description. This money is sucked out of the economy, where individuals and charitable collectives, not to mention small businesses could do much more with it.

They get involved in a war, which seems to have a good purpose, and still does, and then kowtow to those with last minute “stage fright.”

Another reason I dislike our system as it is currently constructed, is because it has mysteriously given leftists a proprietary sense that the government is “theirs”, to protect from the ravages of conservatives, as if conservatives are undeserving outsiders.

So you see, it is very important to me that “my side is in charge.” It is more important that your side is not.

The example of Janet Reno was, of course, not that two wrongs make a right. It was that the AG as political animal was not invented by the Republicans.

For the purposes of debate in these threads, it is fortunate for Republicans that the Clinton administration left no stone unturned in the “political sin” department.

Enablers like you are the reason our country is falling apart.
Evidence, please.

Ah…the old republican argument, two wrongs always make a right.

Former vice-president now gone chubby, who dropped out of law school says “no,no,no it’s illegal….”

Papers report both of these events, and the paper is supposed to call bullsh*t on the attorney general?

Tell soros he should be spending his sheckels elsewhere, the american people aren’t interested.

“As attorney general, Mitchell believed that the government’s need for “law and order” justified restrictions on civil liberties. He advocated the use of wiretaps in national security cases without obtaining a court order”

Yes, I’m sure John Mitchell also had a bevy of bed-wetting yes-men
nodding their approval. It doesn’t prove jack about what will be finally
decided about legality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell

And thank you Frank for showing us, once again, that you really don’t care about our system of government, as long as you think your side is in charge. The officials, appointed or not, are supposed to work for the American people, not lie and mislead them. Enablers like you are the reason our country is falling apart.

That’s right, politicians lie, and the job of the press is to call them on their lies.

And thanks, frank, for admitting that Alberto Gonzales is a lying partisan politician rather than our chief law enforcement officer.

I hereby take back my suggestion that you should be going to schools trying to talk young Republicans into joining the military.
Thank goodness. I was just packing up my old uniform.

Head on back to the Firehouse — I think Wednesday is “Stew Day”.
Or, are you auditioning for the “Hamburglar” today?

We all know Gonzalez is a smart lawyer, one who knows how to skirt the truth and clear his footprints with plausible deniability. He was doing that when he and his peer John Yoo ‘redefined’ torture so that the Bushies could see fit to get away with it. Now, though, he’s just openly hacking away.

I hereby take back my suggestion that you should be going to schools trying to talk young Republicans into joining the military. If the above comment is any indication of the sort of lily-livered parsing you’d be doing to sell your Master Dubya’s war, the kids will laugh you out of the room.