How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row?
(From The Guns of Brixton by The Clash)
1) UPI: Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus for the goat rapists
A battle is shaping up between Democrats and the White House over the Military Commissions Act, signed into law last month by President George W. Bush.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to give habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.
A spokeswoman for Leahy told the newspaper the bill would be intended to repeal portions of the law that prevent some detainees from pursuing federal court challenges to the government's authority to hold them indefinitely.
Spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told the newspaper the goal is to "try and do something to reverse the damage."
Scott L. Silliman, Director of the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University School of Law, told the newspaper an attempt to amend the law could set up a partisan showdown in Congress, and possibly a presidential veto.
Let us hope so, kiddies.
Civil rights attorneys (After all, freedom from goat rape is not in the constitution. - F.G.) filed a constitutional challenge to the act after Bush signed it Oct. 17, the Journal said.
A BONUS It Takes A Village To Staff A Gestapo Unit Update:
2) WSTM-TV: Senatrix Hitlery Schicklgruber (N-NY) outlines legislative priorities, deflects 2008 talk
...She also said Democrats would focus on improving the quality and affordability of health care.
It seems Her Braininess is still smarting from her failed putsch from the previous century.
Next, a perfect example of the type of commie creep soon to control congress...
3) KESQ: Henry Waxman: List of Bush programs to investigate is too long
The Democratic congressman who will investigate the Bush administration's running of the government says there are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue.
Ah...bipartisanship!
And finally, Hello Cayman Islands!
4) BusinessWeek: The Democrats' Playbook for Business
Taxes. Sparks could fly here. Democrats are talking about repealing the 2001 income tax rate reductions for the highest-income Americans, probably those families earning $200,000 or more. Democrats want to use the money to give parents a tax credit for college tuition costs or other middle-class tax relief. This is a nonstarter with the White House, but it could be the beginning of protracted negotiations.
The President has the ultimate weapon: the veto. Democrats have a hammer, however: Bush's tax cuts are set to expire by 2011. He may want to cut a deal to save some of the tax cuts while he's still in office rather than risk a complete loss down the road.
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