So True
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 01:32AM Now I'm sure I sound like I'm complaining, but all I can compare it too is Gov. Jim Gilmore, the last GOP governor. Gilmore was raked over the coals for actually trying to do what he campaigned on . . . cut taxes and get rid of the car tax. Yet over and over the media portrayed Gilmore as a bumbler, and ideolouge, an inflexible tyrant. Yet all he was doing was attempting to keep his promises. The difference is the letter after each of their names.
What just kills me most about Tim Kaine is his inherent dishonesty. I feel like he thinks were stupid. He cynically promises one thing full knowing that he will go directly in the other direction. Perhaps people just don't pay enough attention to local Virginia politics, but Kaine has constantly got away with one lie and broken promise after another.
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My god, are you f'ing serious? He didn't commute all death sentences, he just said we're going to have a moratorium until the Supreme Court decides the lethal injection case that is before it right now. The court has issued a stay in every case that has come up since they took the lethal injection case and has all signs point to them doing it for every additional case that happens before the case is decided.
Why the hell should we not just say we won't execute anyone until they decide? Why go through the trouble of having the AG's office have to prepare briefs for the Supreme Court, the jail have to prepare for the execution on the off chance that the Court doesn't grant a stay and the poor condemned man having to wait for a stay that is extremely likely, but not completely guaranteed? Virginia has in fact executed multiple people since Kaine took office. He has kept his pledge. If the Court rules that lethal injections are legal and Kaine doesn't lift the moratorium, he will have broken his word and we should call him on it. But this decision just common sense and it will save the state time and money. Why not do it?
The previous commenter is 100% correct. What Kaine did in this matter is absoultely sound management of the state. No promises have been broken.
Do you guys defend the unborn with the same passion as the guys on death row?
(A) The two issues are not equivalent.
(b) This is primarily a defense of Tim Kaine against your spurious attacks. He is taking a prudent step in light of a pending Supreme Court case. He hasn't ended the death penalty permanently; he hasn't commuted this particular person's sentence.
Governor Kaine is not taking a prudent step in light of the Supreme Court case. As our AG has stated the Governor stayed the executions of ALL those on death row...even if they haven't chosen to be executed by lethal injection (that is the crux of the case before the Supreme Court).
Kaine broke his word to the people of Virginia to uphold the laws of Virginia...pure and simple.
False. Pure and simple. Since there are no other scheduled executions that are not subject to judicial stays, no other cases have been affected. No promises have been broken.