Maybe it’ll work. And maybe it won’t work. But whichever way it falls out, we can still point out the cartoonish logic and unbridled cynicism of the president’s last ditch election ploy.
The president is now warning that “time is running out” for Congress to pass his Kangaroo Court bill.
It is of course more or less a perfect replay of 2002. At least then there was a notional, if bogus, argument for urgency. Now? Time is running out to set up military tribunals to try suspected terrorists who we’ve had in custody for two, three, four, in some cases I think even close to five years with no particular need or urgency to try them at all. But right now, seven weeks before the election time is running out because when Congress comes back in December it’ll be too late.
By then I guess we’ll have had to release them and give them a clean suit, two hundred bucks and release into some American city.
Time’s running out!
And that from the same guy who wants a permission slip from the Pakistani government to hunt down Osama bin Laden.
