Renewed push for slavery apology begins
From the Department of Self-Loathers:
When it comes to national security, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) simply cannot be trusted
That’s not new news to anyone who is a longtime reader of this blog – and heck, for that matter, anyone who reads a newspaper. When he was an unranked member of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Jay Rockefeller admittedly took a trip to three Middle Eastern countries – including Iraq ally Syria – and alerted them to his belief that the President had “already made up his mind” to go to war with Iraq. In 2005, after the NYT broke a story about the President’s use of warrantless wiretaps -which the NYT of course tried to portray as illegal, Rockefeller tried to act like he had been “helpless” to stop it, even though he’d known what was going on since 2003, and last year accused the President of “lying” about Iran’s nuclear intentions, even though anyone with a shred of a clue knows that Iran is not playing around when it talks about wanting to reconstitute its weapons program.
House Republicans walk out in protest over debate on FISA reform (MORE: VIDEO OF WALKOUT ADDED, EXPLANATION OF SCHEDULING CONFLICT/LANTOS MEMORIAL)
I’m not seeing video at Hot Air or anywhere else on this yet, but CNN’s got the teaser at the top of their page with a java link to the video.
Senate votes to limit interrogation techniques, Obama and Hillary can’t be bothered to show up
Gateway Pundit has the details on the Senate vote that narrowly passed Wednesday on a bill that bans an interrogation technique called “waterboarding” – a technique that, as GP notes, has saved lives.
RIP, Rep. Tom Lantos
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo, San Francisco), who served 14 2-year terms in Congress, passed away today due to complications from cancer, according to his official website. He was 80 years old, and a survivor of the Holocaust.