QUOTE OF THE DAY
“For the Democrats, it will surely end up being one of the darker moments of the Obama presidency — not because it’s necessarily so terribly meaningful (at least compared to ending Too-Big-to-Fail), but because it represents a new low on the utter-lack-of-balls front. The only reason we’re even talking about this Miranda issue is because a bunch of morons on talk radio made a big fuss about it, and if our president is going to go sticking his thumbs into the constitution every time he can’t take a few days of getting reamed by a bunch of overpaid media shills whose job it is to hate him no matter what he does, then we’re all in a lot of trouble.”
Matt Taibbi in a post brilliantly titled Miran-Duhhhhh! on the Obama administrations deeply craven suggestion that the DOJ may want to suspend Miranda/Escobedo for terror suspects — including those who may be American citizens.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:10 am
In which my love affair with Matt Taibbi continues…….
May 11th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
I agree. This is a slippery slope, and in all honesty, can be manipulated anyway a lw enfrocement agency wants to to take away an indivduals rights.