That the minority party was allowed to ask question and alloted any time to speak.

you have to wonder how much of that was a response to the resent censure.

Also Lindsey, when you have a fighter on the ropes, don’t let him off. We would have been better served had you let Holder meander his way through one unintelligible -I can’t really answer that in public or everyone will know this is all about putting Bush on trial- answer after another rather than jumping in and answering for him. Let the snake squirm next time.

van jones and craig OUT the door. He recommended pardoning terrorist and clinton did for terrorists that didn’t want to be pardoned. holder is not competent to be holding the AG job. He had to negoiate with Ensgin at a Las Vegas meeting last week so holder and Ensign and Reid didn’t appear live on the same stage. It time to BEE GONE FOR HOLDER.

but I heard some of the audio this morning on Bill Bennett’s show. Nicely done by Lindsey Graham….kudos where kudos are due, even though I don’t care for his stance on most other things

This is what we need to see. Don’t excuse these clowns. Ask the hard questions and don’t let a non-answer stand. Push what you know. Use that nice backbone God gave you!!!

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of this on RCP Graham lays out how this causes confusion on the battlefield for soldiers when they capture a terrorist. Do they have to read him his miranda rights, can they interrogate or not. This subject has to be followed up on. Graham rightly displays this decision affects a lot more than a single trial.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/18/graham_presses_holder_on_reading_osama_bin_laden_miranda_rights.html

…that Holder is right near the front of the for being thrown under the Obamabus? President distancing himself from his decisions, check. Allowed to be caught totally unprepared, check. Normally sympathetic media starting to comment on his haplessness, check. Get out the sticking fork, he’s just about done,

There’s the inevitable lib trying to defend Holder. Admittedly he does a better job than Holder himself, but even he has to back into a corner and try to assert that it’s somehow “wrong” and “prejudgmental” to have a firm idea what to do with Obama if we capture him.

Forget waterboarding, let’s make Osama be Obama’s spin doctor for a couple of months and he’ll be begging for mercy.

we need more litigators on committees who know how to cross-examine witnesses. I’m a believer the questioner gets more bang for his political buck by actually examining a witness, rather than pontificating.

won’t allow KSM to be “released in this country.”

Everyone assumes that this means that if found “innocent” or “not guilty” KSM would just be put back into prison.

I think Holder just told Congress that KSM would be released ELSEWHERE.

Keep a SEAL Team handy. Let him be released. Problem solved.

won’t allow KSM to be “released in this country.”

Everyone assumes that this means that if found “innocent” or “not guilty” KSM would just be put back into prison.

I think Holder just told Congress that KSM would be released ELSEWHERE.

Keep a SEAL Team handy. Let him be released. Problem solved.

OH. Wait. I forgot who was President.

both scary and entertaining on different levels to watch isn’t there something that can be done to remove these idiots from screwing up the country?

Maybe… just maybe… putting KSM into the Federal Courts and watching everything get thrown out and him walk free would be enough for an impeachment?

on Graham’s part. He voted FOR Holder to be confirmed. Great to see a communist verbally taken down, but, Graham gains nothing by it. He also was great in the Sotomeyor hearings, and then turned around and voted for her confirmation. He’s still on the coal list for christmas as far as I’m concerned.

stand a man who makes me have heartburn 1/2 the time. He is so much like President Bush this way and I do mean 1/2 the time! I don’t like having my head wrenched RIGHT then left and I NEED Senator Graham to start ACTING like this ALL THE TIME!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

Holder, you get a call at 3am from a military commander overseas, they got Bin Laden. Commander asks you if he should mirandize him. What is your answer?

Today he was brilliant. Holder needs to be taken back behind the woodshed and have his butt beaten till he can’t sit down - some old school discipline. This was probably as good as we’ll get.

Here he is dead right, but tomorrow he will be terribly off-center about this same issue. He seems to lack any sort of philosophical foundation, causing him to veer all over the political landscape.

But, as the old saying goes about stopped clocks being right twice a day, I’m glad he nailed Holder this time.

He is one of our most articulate spokesmen when he is on the “right” side. He has a combatitive streak which makes him a good fighter when he is passionate about an issue.

I always liked him until he went in the bag for the lib McCain. With McCain’s influence diminishing, maybe Graham will rethink some of his positions that distance him from the base i.e. global warming extremism. I think he can be an ally.

bin Laden or Abdull abdulah, it makes no difference. The entire direction of this fabulously corrupt and dishonest bunch of vermin has been towards criminalization. But they can’t admit to the further extension of what has already been set in motion. As always, and regardless of issue, it’s so bad they have to lie.

This train left the station years ago. Once the Supremes decided that terrorists held at Gitmo had constitutional rights, this exchange was inevitable. Soldiers are already struggling under these kinds of rules of engagement. Graham’s performance was theater, it’s meaningless. Miranda for OBL? Of course - that’s the answer Holder probably gives in private. Otherwise anything OBL says can be supressed, and the soldiers can be sued for violating his rights. Don’t think so?

This decision by Obama (does anyone REALLY think Holder didn’t talk to him about it?) is going to come around and bite us on the who-know-what. War is war…not a law-enforcement issue. Of course, this bunch is so anti-war I doubt they would lift a finger to protect this country unless forced to by the enormity of the situation.

The precedents this sets, as Graham said, is dangerous on so many levels. While Graham usually annoys me, he is right on target in this. This will be used to further tie our troops’ hands on the battlefield, so we don’t hurt some poor jihadists feelings, God forbid.

I agree with a previous poster and their comment about keeping a SEAL Team on standby. A lead lobotomy for KSM and his ilk is almost too good for them.

1) While Lindsey Graham can be a pain in the @$$, he was spectacular here.
2) If we catch OBL, the military should hand him over to the CIA and never let the Obama administration know, get all the useful info we can and exterminate him from the earth.
3) We, without question have a fool as attorney general. I notice this exchange doesn’t seem to appear on HuffPo, Kos, or any MSM web site.

… it’s just you. But thanks to the dem’s hate crimes/defense bill, maybe you can charge Sen. Graham for the beating he just gave you.

Boy what got Graham so riled up? The guys not up for reelection for a while, I thought that would alow him to satisfy his moderate desires at will. Maybe having Sen. DeMint in close proximity has rubbed off a little. I suspect Goober just stuck his finger in the air, saw which way the wind was blowing politically and tried to get caught up in the wave. A temporary diversion from his usual placating ways no doubt but I can always hope for some permanence.

Amidst all the hand-wringing about the decision to bring GITMO detainee’s to NYC for trial (would it have mattered less had they been ordered to Omaha?) is the fact the decision was 1) purely political and 2) purely within the jurisdiction of only one man to make, Barack Obama.
Ashcroft reminded us that AG has no authority to order DoD to do squat…with their tribunals, POW’s, or tanks for that matter.
Only one person can order Gates to do that.
That’s one political lie revealed.

The only reason then is political. There is no legal basis for this change in venue and jurisdiction, as Sen Graham laid out clearly.
The debate then should be as to why, i.e, what were/are the political forces causing this?
I’m sure you can come up with several, me, I’m opting for the opportunity to have a show trial, exposing names and places to well-heeled Terror-Symps inside the ACLU, who will pass that information forward.
Politically, it’s a convenient table scrap to be tossed to the wadical wabbits of the weft, but like Afghanistan, a throwaway, an issue Obama probably doesn’t care that much about. He’s probably just rolling the dice hoping it won’t come back to bite him, but if it does, Holder’s testimony was is the sword he’d need to impale himself..with his grandstanding that it was his and his alone decision, and then guaranteeing conviction, by hook or by crook, while touting to the world the fairness of American judicial system.
Keep the pressure on, for there’s still a 50/50 chance the heat will get too hot, and the decision reversed. Better an early sword than a later one…plus a reminded that we can still move events out there.
The greater the wedge we make can make between OBama and the wacky weft (he generally mirrors) the greater the wedge we drive between competing impulses inside Obama’s soul itself…his narcssistic preening, his moral cowardice, his need to please his benefactors, his desire to get even (you can list many more, I’m sure.
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I need some help,A couple days ago I read Or I heard that Eric Holder was running for Californias Governors Seat I just cant remember where I saw this. Can you help me.

I’m no fan of Graham, but he was spot-on. Have you read Krauthammer’s op ed today in the Washington Post? I blogged on this the other day, right here: http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/world-trade-center-bombers-to-be-tried-in-new-york-civilian-courts/, but I’m no Charles Krauthammer . . .

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Graham is a great actor. His “performance” was just that. He knew the news stations would pick it up and broadcast it. It means nothing! Graham is another Arlan Specter. When the crunch comes he will line up with BHO and stab conservatives in the back, again! Look at his record. It’s time to wake up and vote these RINO’S out!

…grasping at straws attempt to answer a question. Any answer that begins with, “It depends…” basically means that he doesn’t know jack. Holder came across as the lame, out of his league hack that he is.

Obama, on the other hand, deliberately stretches out his answers (perhaps not to be thorough so much as to meander around and kill time) so that he doesn’t have to answer as many questions. If a reporter simply asks O about something that he is already on record as having addressed in the past, he can still kill 15 minutes or so on it.

Reporters should never ask Obama anything but yes or no questions.

Obama is, ironically, transparent. He has several well-worn phrases that let you know that he’s about to tell a whopper of a lie, such as: Let me be perfectly clear…; Good morning; Good afternoon; Good evening; etc.

Plus, Obama is downright annoying (like a fly that wakes you up in the morning before you’re ready to do so), while Bill Clinton at least gave you a little show, lip-biting and seeming to tear up in sadness (because he had been caught at something or other). Obama will raise the emphasis at the end of a phrase, eg, I want to be perfectly CLEAR…(dramatic pause often)…(lie begins) (10 minutes of expository free-form lying) (lie ends).

Electrifying rock star? Obama is BORING. He KNOWS that we know he’s lying, so he doesn’t but the effort into it that Clinton did.

He had NO answers, a total dress-down by Goober Graham. Holder is being pushed in the path of the Obama bus.