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1 posted on 12/19/2007 5:04:55 AM PST by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike

Harry Reid IS a stink bomb!


2 posted on 12/19/2007 5:07:37 AM PST by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: IrishMike
An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "from something done afterward") or retrospective law, is a law that retrospectively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law...

Generally speaking, ex post facto laws are seen as a violation of the rule of law as it applies in a free and democratic society...

"The sentiment that ex post facto laws are against natural right is so strong in the United States, that few, if any, of the State constitutions have failed to proscribe them. The federal constitution indeed interdicts them in criminal cases only; but they are equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases, and the omission of a caution which would have been right, does not justify the doing what is wrong. Nor ought it to be presumed that the legislature meant to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense, if by rules of construction it can be ever strained to what is just." (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13th, 1813)

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The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.

5 posted on 12/19/2007 5:14:50 AM PST by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: IrishMike
Some special-interest groups would be very happy to see FISA expire.

Especially terrorists. Now they can plan more attacks.

8 posted on 12/19/2007 5:19:25 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: IrishMike

senator reid et al....

stinkers in action.


10 posted on 12/19/2007 5:25:44 AM PST by ripley
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To: IrishMike
Reid is an idiot but I get this feeling that the Republicans in the minority seem more proactive now than when they held the majority—it reminds me of the first two years of the Clinton Administration when the libs were in charge.
11 posted on 12/19/2007 5:26:38 AM PST by sierrahome (Hillary Clinton "America's Ex-Wife")
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To: IrishMike

Often times a stong oder will accompany a demonic presence.

12 posted on 12/19/2007 5:32:37 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: IrishMike

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823537/posts
Hunter calls for Reid to step down over ‘war is lost’ remarks


13 posted on 12/19/2007 5:35:01 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: IrishMike

Harry Reid is the best thing we have to keep the ‘08 election within grasp. Let him keep making a jackass out of himself and his party.


15 posted on 12/19/2007 5:42:21 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: IrishMike

Dana Perino needs to tell the PUBLIC, OVER and OVER, what kind of things Harry Reid does to the American People!!


17 posted on 12/19/2007 5:51:36 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: IrishMike

Its fun watching Reid grow smaller with each passing day.


22 posted on 12/19/2007 6:14:23 AM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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To: IrishMike

"Question: Now that Congress has left town, can Bush start appointing judges and other officials Harry Reid and his roving band of idiots have blocked?"
23 posted on 12/19/2007 6:19:50 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: IrishMike

If the telecoms didn’t break the law, they have nothing to fear from lawsuits.


25 posted on 12/19/2007 6:58:57 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: IrishMike

27 posted on 12/19/2007 7:37:02 AM PST by Gritty (Fighting the jihad in the courtroom means you’ll lose - Mark Steyn)
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To: IrishMike

How many times will he stab our troops in the back and get away with it?


29 posted on 12/19/2007 9:03:27 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com; http://starcmc.wordpress.com/ - The Enemedia is inside the gates.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
After they failed on Monday failed to block Republican efforts to retroactively bar lawsuits against telephone companies that helped the government monitor suspected jihadist communications after September 11, Mr. Reid pulled from the floor legislation to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the primary law governing the monitoring of electronic communications. Unless Congress acts, on Feb. 1 U.S. intelligence agencies will lose the ability to monitor at least some overseas terrorist telecommunications without first obtaining court approval.

35 posted on 12/19/2007 6:14:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The Democrats’ fatal flaw
Sedona.biz | 12/01/2007 | Robert J. Caldwell
Posted on 12/01/2007 5:53:21 PM EST by mdittmar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933362/posts

[snip] Joe Klein, a politically astute columnist notably hard on George Bush, writes this in the Dec. 3 issue of Time magazine: “If the Democrats want to win in 2008, they can’t be mealymouthed on issues of national security.” Klein then proceeds to cite two matters, Iraq war funding and surveillance of terrorist communications, about which Democrats have been “foolishly partisan.” Klein concludes by warning that if Democrats can’t credibly promise to “protect the nation against enemies, foreign and domestic ... they simply will not win the presidency.” [end]


37 posted on 12/19/2007 8:05:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: IrishMike

Bush is supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief, currently running a war on terror. Surveillance of possible jihadists is a crucial facet of that war. Therefore, Bush should be able to conduct surveillance related to the war effort without needing any okay from Congress. I wish Bush would tell Reid to go play in the street, but I’m not holding my breath.


39 posted on 12/19/2007 8:35:48 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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