Who is stopping Dean, Kerry, Hillary from continuing to speak up on it? [Good news! Yesterday Barney “My Boy Lollipop” suggested on Hardball that Karl Rove be impeached. For what crime, I haven’t the foggiest idea.]
Ok PJ, was 'impeach' Rove used by Bwarney? I gotta know, cause this would be hilarous.
Rove cannot be impeached, he was never elected to anything for heaven's sake. I really hope the Frankster said that.
"Hard"ball with Chrissy
BROWN: Welcome back to HARDBALL. I‘m Campbell Brown, sitting in for Chris Matthews.
Lawmakers on the Hill are lining up on either side of the CIA leak controversy and taking strong positions on the man at the eye of the storm, the president‘s top political adviser, Karl Rove.
Congressman Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia, says criticism of Karl Rove is a personal attack and politically motivated. Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat of Massachusetts, has made an official inquiry into whether the Constitution allows Congress to start impeachment proceedings against a high-ranking administration staffer like Karl Rove.
Welcome to both of you.
REP. BARNEY FRANK (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Thank you.
BROWN: So, Congressman Frank, impeachment proceedings? Are we not getting a little out in front of this story?
FRANK: No. It is not the impeachment now. By the way, during the Clinton impeachment, the Republicans kept saying, remember, impeachment does not mean the end of the process. It is the beginning.
But here‘s my problem. I must honestly say, I do not trust the president to do an independent investigation here. And that‘s where...
(CROSSTALK)
BROWN: It‘s not the president. There‘s a special prosecutor.
FRANK: Yes. But it is still also the president, because I don‘t think being convicted of a crime or to be the only—not being convicted of a crime or to be the only qualification for being deputy chief of staff.
Remember, one thing has happened to Karl Rove since he leaked the name· or of the identity of the CIA agent, not the name, but the identity. He got promoted to deputy chief of staff. The president has said, for example, he doesn‘t know exactly what happened. Well, if somebody worked for me and was accused of what Karl Rove has clearly been accused of, I would know what happened, because I would ask him.
And the president‘s reluctance to in fact find out from Karl Rove what happened makes me think that we cannot rely on the president himself to do this. And so, yes, there is a prosecutor. But I don‘t think being convicted of a crime is the only issue that ought to decide whether or not you become the deputy chief of staff for the president.