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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Posted by Jim Hightower

Bush’s approval rating is down to a new low of 24 percent in the latest Zogby Poll. Before Democrats gloat, however, note that Congress’s approval rating is down to – brace yourself – 11 percent.

If the Democratic leadership wonders why they score so low, they might whisper the name, Michael Mukasey. Bush’s attorney general appointee was supposed to restore the rule of law to the politically-prostituted justice department, but he stumbled at his senate hearing by refusing to say whether waterboarding is illegal torture, even though it clearly is a war crime under both U.S. and international law. Mukasey also asserted that Bush has the autocratic authority to ignore or negate any particular law – a direct affront to congress and the rule of law.

Yet, the Democratic congress didn't say no to Mukasey’s nomination. Indeed, Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein led the way to approve him, allowing Bush, once again, to trump both the rule of law and the public will. The two Democrats zeroed in on the waterboarding issue, meekly saying that Mukasey assured them in private that if congress passes a bill outlawing this method of torture, he would uphold it.

Hello… senators – waterboarding is already outlawed! Plus, if you pass another law to “re-outlaw” it, Bush will either veto it or ignore it. And if Mukasey won’t go public with his private “pledge” to you, why on earth would you believe him?

Meanwhile, what about Mukasey’s much more audacious assertion that the president can subvert the laws of our land, thus making congress subservient to the executive branch? Bad enough that congressional leaders wouldn’t take a firm stand on torture, but how pathetic that they so easily surrendered their own constitutional powers to Bush.

The Democratic congress’s approval rating is so low because... well, they deserve it for so gutlessly betraying us.

“On Mukasey: Saying No to Schumer’s Yes,” The New York Times, November 7, 2007

"Voters unhappy with Bush and Congress,"www.news.yahoo.com, October 17, 2007

“A Vote for Justice,” The New York Times, November 6, 2007

“Nominee Secures 2 Key Democratic Votes,” The New York Times, November 3, 2007

“Nominee Describes Harsh Interrogation as Repugnant,” The New York Times, October 31, 2007

“Taking All the Credit, and Then Counting the Cost,” The New York Times, November 1, 2007

 
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