Comments on: P.S. I Love Yoo*

By: purpleOnion

purpleOnion — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:58:52 +0000

Who does Fred think his audience is? The fool must believe that his audience is in the bin with him.

By: Dr.BDH

Dr.BDH — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:22:01 +0000

Of course Ashcroft didn’t override the OLC opinion that torture is OK. He should have but he didn’t. Thanks, Whelan, for confirming my suspicion that Ashcroft was an evil hack.

By: purpleOnion

purpleOnion — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:26:32 +0000

Proof that Yoo, Gonzales, Cheney, and gang are certifiable sociopaths who must be institutionalized for everyone’s protection and to make their positions less attractive to other lunatics waiting in the wings.

By: gocart mozart

gocart mozart — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:55:15 +0000

If Holder’s OLC is of the opinion that Yoo, Gonzalez, Cheney, et al. have all committed war crimes, then they should go directly to a prison in the Hague. The OLC being infallible and all. Is that what Ed Whelen is saying? What say you Fred Hiatt?

By: SomeNYGuy

SomeNYGuy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:48:08 +0000

How long after Ed Whelan’s death was that photo taken?

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:38:19 +0000

The Cat said,

April 7, 2009 at 1:50

Why is Teh Sadlee still so slooooooooooow?

ummm…. zombie. Foot fell into the transfer gear. Hella mess.

Sorry.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:51:05 +0000

Fred Hiatt should be fired for publishing crap like Ed Whelan.

By: The Cat

The Cat — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:50:55 +0000

Why is Teh Sadlee still so slooooooooooow?

By: J—

J— — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:33:49 +0000

My favorite part comes at the end, in the little bio blurb.

Ed Whalen … served as principal deputy in OLC from 2001 to 2004. His portfolio did not include national security matters.

It wasn’t me! I wasn’t one of Cheney’s operatives in the OLC, I swear!

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:15:30 +0000

You know you’ve got a winner of an argument when you resort to a redoubtably stupid hypothetical like this douche.

“Imagine if in 2001, Bush declared everyone much watch Billy Ray Cyrus in Doc or be put in prison for 300 years…”

Shut up, wingnuts. God, shut up.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:06:28 +0000

And, appropriate an homage as her name might be
I’ve met a few blue-heelers and they’re noisy little tuckers.

By: Honus

Honus — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:11 +0000

An enabler of John Yoo and the torture memos is criticizing the Obama justice department. I’m gonna need some recipes and few Dusty Springfield links before the Trolls get here.

By: N__B

N__B — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:53:09 +0000

Waterboarding is all fun and games until someone gets an eye put out by a lawyer’s elbow.

By: PeeJ

PeeJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:30:38 +0000

Ed Whelan thinks people are st00pid™.

The office is, after all, exercising the advisory function the attorney general has delegated to it. But there’s a right way to overrule OLC, and then there’s Holder’s way.

Or perhaps he thinks we can’t read? That we can’t recognize the abuttment of two contradictory statements?

Ahh, thank you. So he’s just fucking evil. I keep forgetting my de La Rochefoucauld.

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:02:10 +0000

OT, but here’s a story that everyone but Mickey Kaus will love.

Hee hee! If there’s ever a match between the original Terminator and an Australian Cattle Dog, bet on the ACD. You can’t kill the ugly little buggers with a neutron cannon… and believe me, it’s been tried.

And, appropriate an homage as her name might be, I’d still bet a store-bought cookie that it’s a back-formation because the only word the puppy reliably responded to was “Tucker!” — as in, “Food’s up!”

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:37:10 +0000

OT, but here's a story that everyone but Mickey Kaus will love.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:35:28 +0000

Of course, Ashcroft never did anything like what Holder has done.

Nah. He wiped his ass with the Constitution, but he never went against his subordinates’ advice to do so.

Then again, when did he ever have to?

By: Stag Party Palin

Stag Party Palin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:28:57 +0000

Boy, the agony from Squealin’ Ed Whelan almost make you think that as a fellow traveller with John “Who Expected” Yoo he might just have something to hide. His logic is sure tortuous enough to give a real lawyer a migraine.

By: Zandar1

Zandar1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:59 +0000

If you can’t dazzle them with Crazy Frog ringtones, bury them with blart.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:21:48 +0000

Legal frivolity now, many victims of it having a sad later.