Audio: Laura Ingraham and John Bolton take on the Medellin case
posted at 10:20 am on October 11, 2007 by Bryan
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I toyed with putting up the red meat graphic for this one.
I posted about this case yesterday, and Ramesh Ponnuru’s article on it is the most thorough around. It’s an outrage that the Bush administration is siding with the International Court of Justice against US states.
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New World Order, anyone? Are we at war with Eastasia? Or is it Eurasia?
God, pleease help us!
Ignorant Mensan on October 11, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Ponnuru never questions Bush’s motives, or explains the administration’s rationale. What kind of analysis is that? We don’t know why he’s doing it, but I would have hoped Ponnuru took a stab at answering that question.
JiangxiDad on October 11, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Our crap politics, take 5,743.
Jaibones on October 11, 2007 at 10:33 AM
Outrage, to say the least! What happened to the guy. He signed over 150 executions when he was governor. All of a sudden he wants the ‘International Court’ to make American legal decisions? I can barely see his devotion to the illegals, but to a rapist double murderer gang banger? The guy will be remembred for crap like this and not any good things he did in his Presidency. Doesn’ he realize this?
countywolf on October 11, 2007 at 10:34 AM
John Bolton for President!
Ignorant Mensan on October 11, 2007 at 10:34 AM
It’s getting harder to be skeptical of the North American Union when El Presidente Jorge is doing crap like this.
I do not and will not recognize the International Court’s authority, and I refuse to subject myself to any authority other than the one(s) I elected.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on October 11, 2007 at 10:39 AM
E-CON!!
Bigfoot on October 11, 2007 at 10:46 AM
International Court? WTF?
NO!
Reading another blog I came across an anagram OSCE as it relates to the EU. Not being familiar with this organization I decided to google it.
Since when? Tentacles of the EU/Eurabia mindsweep reach across the Atlantic? At last check, the USA is still part of North America and I’m not appreciating this inclusive characterization. Am I misreading something?
heroyalwhyness on October 11, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Being a conservative doesn’t mean we have to trust George Bush. It is easy to see why the left hates him so much. The Bush families are politicians, first and always. He is merely the lesser of two evils. Nothing more and nothing less.
volsense on October 11, 2007 at 10:57 AM
O/T — for some reason the picture of Bolton made me think of the Kids in the Hall “I’m crushing your head! I’m crushing your head!” skits…
Anyway, this entire situation just reeks of hypocrisy! In 1999, Stanley Faulder (of Canada) was executed for the murder of 75-year-old (former?) schoolteacher Inez Phillips. She was tortured, and her skull was crushed.
Governor Bush’s comment at that time?
I just cannot figure out what is going on in this country anymore.
:shakes head in total disgust:
lan astaslem on October 11, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Yeah!! He’s got more balls than the entire Republican field, and definitely more than W.
Plus, he is the walrus. Koo koo ka joob.
thirteen28 on October 11, 2007 at 11:05 AM
LAURA JUST ANNOUNCED ON HER SHOW THAT SHE WILL SIT IN FOR ELIZABETH HASSELBECK ON THE VIEW ON NOVEMBER 12!!!
Brat on October 11, 2007 at 11:14 AM
No way.
Jaibones on October 11, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Rosie’s lucky she’s not there anymore. She had a hard enough time with Liz, who while being a classy babe, is not the battle-tested veteran that Laura Ingraham is. Kind of makes me wish Rosie was still there just to see Laura crush her.
thirteen28 on October 11, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Holy cow!! Gotta be sure to record that…
lan astaslem on October 11, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Man you got to love that John Bolton…..
doriangrey on October 11, 2007 at 12:05 PM
No kidding, Rosie would have had a heart attack…
doriangrey on October 11, 2007 at 12:06 PM
I think Bush hates his own country. He certainly hates its people.
PRCalDude on October 11, 2007 at 12:12 PM
John Bolton has to be one of the most intelligent people in US politics, and he’s not even a real politician. The next Republican president (whoever or whenever that might be) would be either out of their minds, or a total politic cronyist, NOT to make Bolton Secretary of State or give him some other powerful advisory position in the Cabinet.
MadisonConservative on October 11, 2007 at 12:25 PM
We can add this to the list of government incompetence. As Peggy Noonan put in one of her columns around the time of the Shamnesty Bill, I am one of those who have lost faith in Mr Bush to function as a competent president.
The only card he has left in his deck is the battle against Islamo-fascism.
Weebork on October 11, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Now, now, now, you should not say something like that or some will accuse you of having that dreaded mental condition called “BDS”!!!.
You have already said it though, but have no fear as I am here to save the day! And you!
I will take all the heat off you!
*
Bush’s Ten Plagues:
First Plague: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq.
Second Plague: Propagating the Islam is a great religion of peace and American troops must die for them doctrine.
Third Plague: Putting Chertoff and Myers and other incompetents in charge of our security.
Fourth Plague: The Bush/McCain/Graham/Kyl/Kennedy axis of weasels.
Fifth Plague: Stabbing the working men and women of America in the back.
Sixth Plague: Selling the Unites States of America out to agri-business, the Chamber of Commerce and other plantation owners.
Seventh Plague: Burdening Americans with massive amounts of imported crime, drugs and welfare dependents from a foreign country.
Eighth Plague: Trying to legalize and institutionalize serfdom in the nation of Abraham Lincoln.
Ninth Plague: Aiding, abetting and facilitating the ruling class in Mexico to ethnically cleanse much of their lower class.
Tenth Plague: Trying to destroy the party and coalition that Ronald Reagan build.
To be continued as it appears to be a work in progress. There may end up being more than Ten Plagues as El Presidente Jorge Arbusto still has 15 more months as Commander Guy to go.
Update, update, update!!!
We now have the Eleventh Bush Plaque!
Eleventh Plague: Taking the side of the International Court over that of his own country to save a foreign murderer of Americans from the death penalty that he use to like so much.
MB4 on October 11, 2007 at 12:41 PM
I’d like to add to that. Aren’t we being ethnically cleansed as well? I mean, the Mexican TFR in this country is somehting like 3.4, where ours is like 2.1. Aren’t Americans being run out of entire states by these people asserting their culture and bringing their lawlessness? Bush just loves it.
PRCalDude on October 11, 2007 at 1:13 PM
You mean, where he runs around saying how Islam is a religion of peace and quoting Surah 5:32 to us?
PRCalDude on October 11, 2007 at 1:14 PM
He (Bush) is a disgrace. To do this in the context of Campeon & Ramos doing time for shooting a mexican drug smuggler. Even Fienstein pleaded to Bush to commute their sentence.
Sergei on October 11, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Yup.
MB4 on October 11, 2007 at 1:23 PM
What if you weren’t ethnically pure to begin with? Can you still be cleansed?
dedalus on October 11, 2007 at 2:06 PM
I think Bush is coming at this from his expansive view of executive powers. His view might be that the U.S. signed the treaty and congress ratified it. Article VI says that treaties are the supreme Law of the Land, and the Texas AG agreed yesterday that Texas is subject to federal laws. There is nothing in this treaty that the justices have yet identified as unconstitutional. Given that we expect reciprocity with regard to the other 112 treaties we’ve signed, and the president needs to negotiate additional treaties, Bush believes, I think, that he is strengthening the hand of the president.
dedalus on October 11, 2007 at 2:19 PM
It is so hard to believe that W has caved to the Left – on this and so much else recently…. but the evidence is there. Still, it’s just so, so hard to believe.
Halley on October 11, 2007 at 2:23 PM
It’s hard to argue with you MB4, especially when you have the duckies in a row, nicely. I believe he’s so burnt from the U.N., foreign partners over Iraq, loss in 2006 “go it alone” that he wants to, misguidedly on this one, as it is a states issue and should have nothing to do with the Vienna convention, that he is giving this a try. I predict he will lose big at the SC. Of course the lefties are silent on it, internationalist one-worldies elites that they are (see Hillary, Barak, and Johnnie). This is a dual sword for them.
And still, agreeing with you list of 11 plagues, there is one blessing still. He.Is.Not.John.Kerry.
Entelechy on October 11, 2007 at 2:46 PM
Bigfoot, please forgive my ignorance, but what does “E-CON” mean?
Ignorant Mensan on October 11, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Like father, like son. Unfortunately.
New World Order. Globalism.
The war on islamic terrorism is merely an irritating distraction to their real goals.
I’m embarrassed to have been so fooled by “W” for nearly 5 years, thinking he wasn’t a ‘chip off the old block’. The one saving grace, as Entelechy said, he is better than the alternative.
LegendHasIt on October 11, 2007 at 3:48 PM
F*CK the Vienna Convention. Kill Medellin. Do it now!
georgej on October 11, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Bush is not a gov. anymore he’s president. The motivation for him now is that if a U.S. citizen is under death sentence in Saudia Arabia or Iran at least he can say he listened to the international court in this instance to get them off the hook. I dont like this either but if it saves some poor American soul languishimg in a foreign jail under death sentence its a price that has to be paid.
fryclint on October 11, 2007 at 7:05 PM
I’m starting to reevaluate my abhorance to John Conyers impeachment desires.
Helloyawl on October 11, 2007 at 10:35 PM
John Bolton is a giant.
Erudite, succinct, and eloquent.
I hope Fred finds a cabinet position for him.
TheSitRep on October 12, 2007 at 8:25 AM
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