Posted on 07/12/2007 11:32:18 AM PDT by HOTTIEBOY
WASHINGTON — A House panel cleared the way Thursday for contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she obeyed President Bush and skipped a hearing on the firings of federal prosecutors.
Addressing the empty chair where Miers had been subpoenaed to testify, Rep. Linda Sanchez ruled out of order Bush's executive privilege claim that his former advisers are immune from being summoned before Congress.
The House Judiciary subcommittee that Sanchez chairs voted 7-5 to sustain her ruling. The next step would be for the full Judiciary Committee to issue a finding that Miers, Bush's longtime friend and former Supreme Court nominee, was in contempt. Ultimately, the full
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Contempt of Congress... what a joke. Bush should just pardon anyone accused of this “crime.”
How about contempt FOR Congress?
It is not a crime. Thye might want to pass out copies of the Constitution to Congress. They really need to read it.
Really. Well, they’ll lose that fight in court. Next.
Do you think he’ll pardon her, or let her twist slowly in the wind and commute her sentence the day before she is scheduled to go to prison?
Tough.
I hold great contempt for this kind of witch hunt. The POTUS can fire any of his attorneys general...period.
>>>>>>>>>>Do you think he’ll pardon her, or let her twist slowly in the wind and commute her sentence the day before she is scheduled to go to prison?<<<<<<<<<<<
There it is again......
Whatever he does is just not good enough, is it?
It occurs to me that GWB might be in run-out-the-clock mode on this one. All things considered, this could be tied up in the courts until he is out of office.
Bush wages war on international terrorists while the Democrats wage war on him. A disconnect with reality has always been a liberal failing, but this one is going to cause a catastrophe on American soil.
The democrats that are after him are surely watching every move.
He is careful before he does stuff and these people are doing nothing but wasting our money with this witch hunt when they could be doing what Pelosi promised to do ~ ADDRESS SOME REAL ISSUES AND STOP WASTING MY MONEY!!!!
How about contempt for a “bunch of knothead windbags”.
They - the Dims either do not even know or understand the Constitution, or know they are lying. They can call anything they want “out of order”; simply naming something with that attribute does not make it so in reality, when the crux of the matter is not what do they want to do, but what does the Constitution give them the right to do.
Can the president simply order his justice department to place subpoenas on the private correspondence and conversations of representatives of Congress, between themselves and their staffs and advisers, just because he wants to know the private deliberations that members of Congress went through, to reach some decision they made; a decision that was legally theirs to make? No.
And neither can the Congress simply go on a fishing expedition to pry into the President’s staff on a matter that the President has the power to make without consulting Congress - firing United States Deputy Attorneys General. Constitutionally the President is not even required to show cause for their firing.
On this same Constitutional basis, and in order to hide the political motivations behind why he wanted some Deputy Attorneys General fired when he gained the White House, BJ Clinton, in a historically unprecedented move, simply fired them all.
The Dims have no Constitutional grounds for their actions, but they are well aware that the LameStreamMedia and most of the public do not know that; so the appearance of scandal is worth the effort in their constant political warfare.
Harriet Miers has “Contempt of Congress”? What the Hell...most American citizens have contempt of Congress. Why should Miers be any different?
How different would it be written by the MSM if it was a Republican committee going after a Democratic President.
I would anticipate it would read along these lines: On a party-line vote, arch-conservative Committee Chairman ABC, continued his activities to challenge the long-term presidential privilege. Leading scholars [i.e., whoever supports the Democratic position]blasted the vote as undermining the Constitutional separation of powers.
It would be worth it if Bush did pardon them just to watch the democrats go into spasms - complete with bulging veins, spit flying out of the corner of their mouths etc. Could you imagine if they took this to court and actually managed to win, then Bush simpled issued full pardons to those that would not appear before congress?
It would be like Bush telling them, If I win... I Win! and If I lose... I STILL win!
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