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Michael Mukasey's refusal to answer whether he believed water-boarding to be torture should scuttle his nomination to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer. The Senate should refuse to bring his nomination to the floor. President Bush needs to be told that while he may allow garbage to amass in his administration, the Senate will not.

Water-boarding is torture. Experts have said it and the majority of decent people who need no expertise to recognize torture have said it. For a nominee to stand in front of the Senate and refuse to acknowledge that it is torture is unacceptable.

Today's New York Times opined that the reason he refused to answer the question truthfully is that the Bush Administration fears criminal and civil prosecution should anyone admit that water-boarding is torture. Therefore, they can't have their nominee provide a clear answer in his confirmation hearings. President Bush went out today and said that it was unfair for the Senate to question Mukasey about a procedure that he hasn't been officially briefed on.

Garbage!

I'm personally tired of President Bush sending garbage up to the Hill and expecting Congress to hold their noses and vote.

President Bush has the authority to appoint garbage to his administration while Congress is in recess. Unless he sends a decent candidate up to Congress for his empty posts, the Congress should refuse to allow garbage to be dumped on the floor of the Senate.

It is nearly time to take the garbage out of the White House and it IS TIME to stop allowing Bush's garbage to stink up the Congress.

No vote for Mukasey. The stench is too strong.


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