My OperaWell done, Leahy.
Friday, December 14, 2007 8:57:15 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301736.html
What does this mean? In between gutting FISA, legislating torture by abrogating the article 1 powers of the Congress to legislate over the President's person - the judiciary committee has managed, in one instance, to charge the White House cronies for contempt, due to their fantastically ongoing six- year stonewall. Where the foundation is laid for burying the information sought until not only the president leaves office, but until the president and his family is long dead.
Regardless - what issue has actually made previously friendly and constantly caving republicans like Arlen Specter (who organised the last extension to the contempt charge vote in the judiciary committee, among other infinitely useless "negotiations" with the White House and the VP's office) turn to the stick? It's the way the White House has blatantly lied (and we can tell, since the stories do not add up with each other, or with the facts available. Not to mention how certain assistants have vouchsafed that - even they are /innocent/ and only unfortunate victims of this witch- hunt - they indeed may have been using government money to promote the GOP, as they thought this was completely proper (even though the law explicitly forbids it) - as the records they've filed of their activities happen to show) ... lied about how and why large parts of the attorneys serving in a federal capacity was purged in the middle of the presidential period, apparently due to certain "metrics" regarding "job- performance" that evidently has nothing to do with the various politically motivated charges some of them failed to seek - after instructions from the White House chief counsel and legal advisers.
(*intake of breath*)
Anyway. So well done, Patrick Leahy. "You gotta stand up". Good motto.
"The Senate Judiciary Committee approved contempt citations against Rove and Bolten on a 12 to 7 vote, rejecting the White House position that the work of two of President Bush's closest advisers is covered by executive privilege..
What does this mean? In between gutting FISA, legislating torture by abrogating the article 1 powers of the Congress to legislate over the President's person - the judiciary committee has managed, in one instance, to charge the White House cronies for contempt, due to their fantastically ongoing six- year stonewall. Where the foundation is laid for burying the information sought until not only the president leaves office, but until the president and his family is long dead.
Regardless - what issue has actually made previously friendly and constantly caving republicans like Arlen Specter (who organised the last extension to the contempt charge vote in the judiciary committee, among other infinitely useless "negotiations" with the White House and the VP's office) turn to the stick? It's the way the White House has blatantly lied (and we can tell, since the stories do not add up with each other, or with the facts available. Not to mention how certain assistants have vouchsafed that - even they are /innocent/ and only unfortunate victims of this witch- hunt - they indeed may have been using government money to promote the GOP, as they thought this was completely proper (even though the law explicitly forbids it) - as the records they've filed of their activities happen to show) ... lied about how and why large parts of the attorneys serving in a federal capacity was purged in the middle of the presidential period, apparently due to certain "metrics" regarding "job- performance" that evidently has nothing to do with the various politically motivated charges some of them failed to seek - after instructions from the White House chief counsel and legal advisers.
(*intake of breath*)
Anyway. So well done, Patrick Leahy. "You gotta stand up". Good motto.
