Mitch McConnell on "unfortunate partisanship" surrounding Mukasey: "Dems got what they asked for"

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Comment by Senator Mitch McConnell, (R-Kentucky)
google news commentJudge Mukasey Deserves a Full Senate Vote This Week - 1 hour ago

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement after a bipartisan majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to report to the Senate floor the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to serve as Attorney General of the United States:

"Democrats asked the President to nominate a new Attorney General; he did. They asked for consultation; they got it. They asked for someone like Judge Mukasey to be nominated, and the President in fact nominated Judge Mukasey - almost seven weeks ago.

Judge Mukasey is highly qualified and supported by a bipartisan majority of the Senate. He was deemed a consensus choice when he was nominated, and he still is today. Unfortunately, the nomination of this good man ran into the partisanship that affects all-too-many of those who volunteer for public service.

Judge Mukasey has waited almost seven weeks for a vote. This process has gone on long enough. Judge Mukasey deserves to have an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor this week. And I believe he will be confirmed with strong bipartisan support."

now tell me something I don't know.

anybody who doesn't know whether waterboarding is torture (see geneva conventions) and has been for how many centuries? who needs a classified briefing? is, qed, too damned stupid and far too partisan, to be the AG.

and if you can't figure it out, you are too stupid to hold your office.

And if torture is "supported by a bipartisan majority of the Senate," then I think I need to move to some other country.

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution gives a very clear answer on that. No person can be compelled to give testimony against him- or herself. The only purpose for waterboarding is to force a prisoner to testify -- against himself. It is Mukasey's problem if he wants to be attorney general and can't read the Constitution. Mukasey refused to say where he stands on the crazy, long debunked theory of "unitary executive." The Constitution gives many specific and general powers to Congress and very limited powers to the executive. The oath of office requires the president to enforce laws. If Mukasey cannot read the Constitution that is his problem.

These are not partisan issues. These are constitutional issues. Mukasey fails Constitutional Law 101. He should go back to law school.