{"id":22983,"date":"2011-04-17T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22983"},"modified":"2011-04-17T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:05:06","slug":"democrats-recruit-gen-sanchez-to-run-for-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22983","title":{"rendered":"Democrats recruit Gen Sanchez to run for the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben and Ponsdorf send us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/17\/from-abu-ghraib-to-the-darling-of-progressives\/\">Hot Air<\/a> (see how I linked that, Hot Air?) in which Ed Morrissey reminds us of how the Democrats were upset that the chain-of-command of the pervs who staffed Abu Gharaib were not held responsible for the naked pyramids and junk-pointing antics of their subordinates. <\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that the very Democrats who made such a stink, have recruited their main target, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, to run for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson next year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes confirmed that Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the head of the Democratic Senate campaign committee, was referring to Sanchez Thursday when she said that Democrats were very close to announcing a candidate in Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/beltwaywhispers\/2011\/04\/16\/gopers-unfazed-by-top-tx-dem-recruit\/\">Red State<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When former President George Bush tapped then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to fill the nation\u2019s top law enforcement post, Murray joined Senator Maria Cantwell in opposing the nomination over his green-lighting of Sanchez\u2019s interrogation techniques.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2004 statement, Senator Patrick Leahy accused Sanchez of authorizing \u201cthe use of techniques that were contrary to both U.S. military manuals but also international law.\u201d \u201cGiven this incredible overstepping of bounds, I find it incredible that the reports generated thus far have not recommended punishment of any kind for high-level officials,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dicksmith at VoteVets is fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=4620\">referring to Allen West as a &#8220;war criminal&#8221;<\/a>, so I wonder what cute little reference he&#8217;ll have for the reconstituted and now-Democrat-endorsed Sanchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben and Ponsdorf send us a link to Hot Air (see how I linked that, Hot &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats recruit Gen Sanchez to run for the Senate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22983\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats recruit Gen Sanchez to run for the Senate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}