Are you following this conversation?
“It is not the Congress who appoints a special counsel. It is the Attorney General of the administration in power.”
Duh!
First the President is co-equal with Congress.....
Are you seriously expecting Eric Holder to appoint a Special Council to investigate Obama’s eligibility, especially since the Democrats hold a supermajority in Congress?.... OK....uh
Second is that the current Republican members of Congress have very little power....they were even shut out of the deliberations on HCR.....yet you think that they can exert pressure so hot that the AG will appoint a Special Council.....Oh..ah... OK!......
The point of the Nixon, and Clinton Special Councils, was that the Congress was held by an insistant opposition party, that forced the AG’s hand.......something you apparently want to ignore.....
In Bush’s case, with a Republican held congress, I believe it was his principals/morality, (and bolstered bt the Knowledge of his innocense) that allowed him to respond to calls by the left, and their MSM enablers, and appoint a SC without fear of an adverse finding.....
“Have you heard any Republican member of Congress or any official of the Repubican Party call for a Special Counsel to be appointed to look into Obama’s eligibility?”
No I haven’t, but there are many others that have questioned Obama’s eligibility (including me).....and they have been pillored as nut cases by the media.....pols are smarter than to hold themselves out to that situation.....
Question do you think that the MSM would report such a call as anything other than a partisan attack by desparate right wingnuts .....(Heck even you have called them “aluminum foil hat wearers”)?
Maybe the answer to that question is that the Politicians are reluctant to hold themselves out to media ridicule (I ain’t holding my breath waiting for this type of a political solution anyway....are you?), and are waiting for results of the 2010 elections to make themselves heard on this issue (if ever).......if more and more people discuss the issue, and if the political landscape changes to our side in 2011, and if the MSM moderates its blind support of Obama, we may see some pols grow a pair....a whole lot of ifs.......so again..... I ain’t holding my breath.....
The fact that Janet Reno appointed Ken Starr to investigate Bill Clinton still seems appropos to me as an historical precedent.
The Democrats don’t have a “super-majority” in Congress. Ever heard of Scott Brown of Massachusetts?
When US Attorney (and Bush appointee) Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, it took the Democrat-controlled legislature in Illinois about one month to impeach Blagojevick and remove him from office to minimize the political damage to the rest of the Illinois Democrats. Obama and Holder could have replaced Fitzgerald with a Democrat appointee, but they haven’t.
Remember that none of the issues that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton began as “federal” issues. If there were to be a Grand Jury investigation in any of the 50 states concerning Obama’s eligibility, he could be forced to testify under oath. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice concerning his Paula Jones sexual harrassment Grand Jury deposition.