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  johnpi 8:43 am on February 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: human rights (381), Kazakhstan (3), Republicans (60), right-wing morons (71), US congress (4), US Democrats

  Republican congressman Darrell Issa from South California says the democratically elected Democratic congress is ‘exactly the same’ as Kazakhstan’s dictatorship.

  Issa made the comment at a hearing to Kazakh foreign minister Kanat Saudabayev:

  I want to share with you something here today. Washington, D.C., is exactly the same. This is a one-party town, even though there are people who are not Democrats. And this town has decided to have representation, at least one member of the council, who is chosen simply to represent minorities.

  Issa has also nominated Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev for a Nobel Peace prize.

  Kazakhstan has been described as an authoritarian state and one of the “least free countries in the world” by Freedom House, a human rights organization.

   

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  johnpi 10:04 am on December 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: democrats (9), guantanamo (73), guantanamo bay (33), US Democrats

  Guantanamo closure delayed again.

  The White House wants to buy a maximum security prison in Illinois to hold the ‘detainees.’

  The federal Bureau of Prisons does not have enough money to pay Illinois for the center, which would cost about $150 million. Several weeks ago, the White House approached the House Appropriations Committee and floated the idea of adding about $200 million for the project to the military spending bill for the 2010 fiscal year, according to administration and Congressional officials.

  But Democratic leaders refused to include the politically charged measure in the legislation. When lawmakers approved the bill on Dec. 19, it contained no financing for Thomson.

  The Democratic party will have nobody to blame but themselves in the mid-term elections when their supporters don’t show up at the polls due to discouragement.