Fool’s News

Well, the Democrats are taking some action.  A little action.  In one of the shortest session in its history, the Senate’s final session of the year lasted a total of 12 seconds Monday.

Only one senator, Democrat Jack Reed of Rhode Island, was in the chamber to gavel open the Senate and adjourn it until January 3.

Monday’s event was the latest in a series of “pro forma” sessions the Senate has called. Pro forma means “for the sake of formality” and these micro sessions are part of the last political scuffle between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress.

Why?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced December 19 that he would keep the Senate open with a series of pro forma sessions through mid-January.

Talks had just broken down with the White House on a deal that would have allowed the president to make dozens of those appointments if he agreed not to appoint one controversial official, Steven Bradbury, as the permanent head of the influential Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

Bush declined to accept the Democrats’ offer, and Reid refused to approve Bradbury because of concerns about his involvement in crafting legal opinions for the administration on interrogation techniques of terrorism suspects.

Hmm…Bush failing to compromise.  That doesn’t happen, does it?

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

- Benjamin Franklin

But, in this case, I actually agree with him.

President Bush plans to veto a sweeping defense policy bill on grounds that language exposing the Iraqi government to damage suits stemming from the Saddam Hussein era would derail Baghdad’s efforts to rebuild the country.

Worse yet, the legislation would permit such lawsuits to be brought in U.S. federal courts.

Leave it to Americans…We claim to be bringing democracy to Iraq.  Before there’s even a working government or anything resembling peace, while American soldiers are still there, Congress wants to bring…. yup, you said it… litigation to Iraq.  God bless Democracy!

I can’t even tell you how disappointed I am in the Democrats to have put this in the defense spending bill.

The very last thing that American courts need – trust me, I’m a lawyer – is lawsuits against the Iraqi government, which wasn’t even in power during the crimes, clogging up our already jam-packed legal system.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Ugh.

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As of a couple weeks ago, I am mostly an Apple person.  After too many years of my system not responding and too many CTRL+ALT+DEL combinations, I thought I would give Mac a try.  This post is being written on my fairly new MacBook Pro.

I will be curious to see how this works with some of my legal applications.  Most companies do not work hard with many business apps for the Mac.

Wish me luck.  So far, so good.

Ciao for now.

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