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Glenn Greenwald has a list of them and some of them are pretty funny. He includes one from 2006 from the terminally invertebrate Arlen Specter:
"What the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years" --Sen. Arlen Specter on the Military Commissions Act, in a speech he delivered on the Senate floor almost immediately before voting in favor of that bill (that was actually from September, 2006, but I cheated and included it anyway because it's my all-time favorite political quote).
That quote tells you everything you need to know about Specter.
Comments
Maybe he thought that was what was good about the bill...
Posted by: Gary Bivin | December 29, 2007 1:36 PM
He's referring to the Magna Carta and habeas corpus?
Posted by: Dr X | December 29, 2007 3:29 PM
Well, not quite everything. From House OKs bill on terror suspects (The San Diego Union-Tribune):
The quote looks quite different in that context.
Posted by: Dangerous Dan | December 30, 2007 4:56 AM
Not really. The amendment failed and Specter voted for the bill anyway.
Posted by: noncarborundum | December 31, 2007 10:52 PM