Posted on 02/06/2006 12:24:28 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Hopefully Gonzales will tell her, "open your own hearing on that topic if you want - but I'm here to talk about the NSA".
For starters, please understand that the above article is an Editorial by our local "progressive" rag; in other words, it's a FREE commercial for Feingold. *Rolleyes*
"Why are Republican lawmakers were so adamant that Alberto Gonzales testimony be NOT under oath?"
Do you have something that says that Republican legislators didn't or don't want Gonzales under oath for these hearings? I don't see anything about being under oath or not in this Editorial. I don't know the procedures when someone testifies in front of a commiittee. Are they always to take an oath first? I don't know. I testified before a finance committee made up of WI Legislators during Operation Desert Storm, and I wasn't put under oath. (And Feingold was on that committee as he used to be one of our legislators before we unleashed him on the entire United States, for which I apologize.)
Just because Feingold wants it, doesn't mean that the Republicans are completely opposed to it. There are plenty of RINOs to go around at any hearing held by any committee.
More likely IF Feingold is demanding Gonzales be "under oath" it's so the Dems can try to trip Gonzales up, then start in with the "Gonzales Lied," cr@p.
Why would they operate any differently as they did with Judges Roberts and Alito? It's their standard m.o. and they are so blatant in their hatred for the Bush Administration, it's palpable.
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