Lucille
05-24-2012, 10:28 AM
The Neo-Trotskyites are the scourge of the nation. Too bad the country is lousy with them, particularly in Washington and on both sides of the aisle.
Neocons Smear Bob McDonnell over NDAA Measure (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/neocons-smear-bob-mcdonnell/)
Former Bush/Rumsfeld speechwriter Marc Thiessen sandbags Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post for deigning to sign the legislature’s near-unanimous NDAA interposition measure:
…McDonnell’s national security credentials have come into question, thanks to his mishandling of a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly that disassociates the commonwealth from the military detention of al-Qaeda or its terrorist affiliates who happen to be U.S. citizens. The bill, HB 1160, would effectively bar Virginia state troopers from arresting a terrorist like Anwar al-Awlaki if they knew he would be put in military detention. McDonnell didn’t raise a finger to stop this odious legislation as it made its way through the Virginia legislature. As a result, it passed 97-3 in the House of Delegates and 39-1 in the state Senate.
The indefatigably fair Matt Lewis doubts it ruins his VP eligibility. I’d go even further and say that signing the bill gives him the best chance of any VP short-lister to court the Ron Paul faction.
LOL... What about "[many of us believe that] the VP is meaningless, and we'd many of us would rather eat glass than vote for Obamney" don't people get?!
There are two big x factors there, however. The first is the orthodoxy of the GOP foreign policy elite, and the second is the Ronulans’ [;p] intransigence. And the case could easily be overstated; Thiessen and the WSJ editorial board have gone to great lengths to portray McDonnell as the state executive version of Justin Amash, which is ridiculous given the margins by which the measure passed.
Regardless of Thiessen’s deluded assessment, the General Assembly’s vote makes it quite clear that if he had been imprudent enough to “raise a finger” against the bill, his veto would have been overridden anyway. Comparing the GA’s vote to Congress’ makes no sense, it requires a breathtaking suspension of logic to assert they, “voted to have the state employees of Virginia lay down their arms in the war against al-Qaeda.” In addition, the bill’s sponsor Bob Marshall is a social conservative from a Northern Virginia district that receives a great deal of defense funding.
McDonnell defied the neoconservative establishment by going against the wishes of Ed Meese and Michael Chertoff (a Romney advisor and MEK supporter) when they urged him in writing to veto the bill. This is about ensuring that the VP pick, whoever it should be, will toe the acceptable national security line.
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All this leaves aside the question of the proper role of the states in light of the federal government claiming the power to indefinitely detain its citizens. Conservatives used to value federalism, but now leaders on the right would rather state executives be unthinking vassals to the national security state, thwarting their own constituents.
Most of them are. (See Tea Party darling Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of the anti-NDAA legislation.)
Neocons Smear Bob McDonnell over NDAA Measure (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/neocons-smear-bob-mcdonnell/)
Former Bush/Rumsfeld speechwriter Marc Thiessen sandbags Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post for deigning to sign the legislature’s near-unanimous NDAA interposition measure:
…McDonnell’s national security credentials have come into question, thanks to his mishandling of a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly that disassociates the commonwealth from the military detention of al-Qaeda or its terrorist affiliates who happen to be U.S. citizens. The bill, HB 1160, would effectively bar Virginia state troopers from arresting a terrorist like Anwar al-Awlaki if they knew he would be put in military detention. McDonnell didn’t raise a finger to stop this odious legislation as it made its way through the Virginia legislature. As a result, it passed 97-3 in the House of Delegates and 39-1 in the state Senate.
The indefatigably fair Matt Lewis doubts it ruins his VP eligibility. I’d go even further and say that signing the bill gives him the best chance of any VP short-lister to court the Ron Paul faction.
LOL... What about "[many of us believe that] the VP is meaningless, and we'd many of us would rather eat glass than vote for Obamney" don't people get?!
There are two big x factors there, however. The first is the orthodoxy of the GOP foreign policy elite, and the second is the Ronulans’ [;p] intransigence. And the case could easily be overstated; Thiessen and the WSJ editorial board have gone to great lengths to portray McDonnell as the state executive version of Justin Amash, which is ridiculous given the margins by which the measure passed.
Regardless of Thiessen’s deluded assessment, the General Assembly’s vote makes it quite clear that if he had been imprudent enough to “raise a finger” against the bill, his veto would have been overridden anyway. Comparing the GA’s vote to Congress’ makes no sense, it requires a breathtaking suspension of logic to assert they, “voted to have the state employees of Virginia lay down their arms in the war against al-Qaeda.” In addition, the bill’s sponsor Bob Marshall is a social conservative from a Northern Virginia district that receives a great deal of defense funding.
McDonnell defied the neoconservative establishment by going against the wishes of Ed Meese and Michael Chertoff (a Romney advisor and MEK supporter) when they urged him in writing to veto the bill. This is about ensuring that the VP pick, whoever it should be, will toe the acceptable national security line.
[...]
All this leaves aside the question of the proper role of the states in light of the federal government claiming the power to indefinitely detain its citizens. Conservatives used to value federalism, but now leaders on the right would rather state executives be unthinking vassals to the national security state, thwarting their own constituents.
Most of them are. (See Tea Party darling Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of the anti-NDAA legislation.)