I am shocked. Shocked I tell you! Bush won’t let Ms. Taylor testify. I don’t know what to think. Hmmm.
Honestly I can’t say that he won’t allow his aides to testify right out. He will allow them to testify off the record and without going under oath. I can’t imagine why he’d do that. Hmm, again. Like how many licks it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, the world may never know.
In the standoff between branches of government, Fielding renewed the White House offer to let Miers, Taylor and other administration officials meet with congressional investigators off the record and with no transcript. He declined to explain anew the legal underpinnings of the privilege claim as the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees had directed.
“You may be assured that the president’s assertion here comports with prior practices in similar contexts, and that it has been appropriately documented,” Fielding wrote.
And once again Congress is threatening legal action. However, Sen. Specter put all of that into perspective for us lay folk.
Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Democrats’ threat of taking the standoff to court on a contempt citation was spurious because the prosecutor who would consider it is a Bush appointee.
“On a case like this, does anyone believe the U.S. attorney is going to bring a criminal contempt citation against anyone?” Specter said in a telephone interview. “The U.S. attorney works for the president and it’s a discretionary matter what the U.S. attorney does.”
Well, there you have it. Since the King appointed the U.S. Attorney that would presumably bring prosecute him, why bother trying. Honestly, might as well let the man reign and get over it all ready. But wait! Isn’t there some kind of thing you can do when the President is breaking the law and you, as Congress, can do to assure he’s prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Didn’t something like this happen before?
Oh, yes. Now I remember. Kenneth Starr had something to do with some kind of sex thing with Bill Clinton and that one chic and perjury. He was the SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. Oh my goodness, what a novel concept! Maybe someone should whisper that word in Sen. Specter’s ear, perhaps with a definition and some historical context.
As it is, Congress is once again flexing. Now they expect Ms. Taylor to testify on Wednesday instead of yesterday. I guess when tomorrow rolls around we can expect that Friday will suddenly and magically become the new deadline for legal action against the Executive. I’d take bets on this one too, but it’s getting too easy.
“The president seems to think that executive privilege is a magic mantra that can hide anything, including wrongdoing,” said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Senate Democrats’ 2008 election campaign operation.
No shit. Just think, if the Democrats who promised justice in November would get off their asses and stop stuffing their tails between their legs we might actually get control of Cheney and his puppet. Imagine that! (But don’t hold your breath.)
Bush proves me right- again
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you! Bush won’t let Ms. Taylor testify. I don’t know what to think. Hmmm.
Honestly I can’t say that he won’t allow his aides to testify right out. He will allow them to testify off the record and without going under oath. I can’t imagine why he’d do that. Hmm, again. Like how many licks it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, the world may never know.
And once again Congress is threatening legal action. However, Sen. Specter put all of that into perspective for us lay folk.
Well, there you have it. Since the King appointed the U.S. Attorney that would presumably bring prosecute him, why bother trying. Honestly, might as well let the man reign and get over it all ready. But wait! Isn’t there some kind of thing you can do when the President is breaking the law and you, as Congress, can do to assure he’s prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Didn’t something like this happen before?
Oh, yes. Now I remember. Kenneth Starr had something to do with some kind of sex thing with Bill Clinton and that one chic and perjury. He was the SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. Oh my goodness, what a novel concept! Maybe someone should whisper that word in Sen. Specter’s ear, perhaps with a definition and some historical context.
As it is, Congress is once again flexing. Now they expect Ms. Taylor to testify on Wednesday instead of yesterday. I guess when tomorrow rolls around we can expect that Friday will suddenly and magically become the new deadline for legal action against the Executive. I’d take bets on this one too, but it’s getting too easy.
No shit. Just think, if the Democrats who promised justice in November would get off their asses and stop stuffing their tails between their legs we might actually get control of Cheney and his puppet. Imagine that! (But don’t hold your breath.)
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