[Dog]

Oh my god...this is bigger than we think.

[Dog]

Cap....there is something going on...bigger than we are being told. For this threat to be made is off the scale.

[Mo1]

The House threaten to cut off funds???

[Joe 6-pack]

"Oh my god...this is bigger than we think."

The fact that William Jefferson (Democrat, Louisiana) was working his shady deal with Nigeria brings two words to my mind:

yellow cake.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If the roles were reversed, you can bet that Jefferson would already be crushing rocks at Leavenworth.

[JasonC]

It is simple - 90% of them are on the take and they all have dirt on each other. They all need to be sent to the big house for 10-30 years. Which they will not do quietly. None of them have any idea of the stakes or the historical moment, or they would realize that is the merciful outcome.

[MNJohnnie]

Have you thought this out? The logical progression you are on is basically to claim Congress is immune from prosecution based on being elected to Congress. You basically are arguing for a Legal Nobility that would have superior rights under the law. We say no.

WE as a people have formed a Civil Government. That Govt is structured so it has 3 branches. Executive, Judiciary and Legislative. All three are STILL members of our Civil Society. They are NOT some how magically promoted to some form of superior level of citizenship based on the office they hold. They are citizens first, office holders 2nd. Based on that principal, they are subject to all the same laws and rules as any other citizen. They system is so structured so that the other branches serve together as a check on the third.

Unless you have been taking serious hardcore drugs recreational for decades, you know the authority of the Executive has been largely pruned back by the Judiciary and the Congress since Watergate. They are use to getting away with it.

So Congress wants to expand its power once again. To claim it is NOT a Co equal branch but the SUPERIOR branch of Govt. That it cannot be in any way called to account by either of the other two branches. Utter nonsense.

No one is above the law. NO one. A legally executed Warrant is NOT magically prohibited from being served on a Congress-critter simply because Congress critter proclaims themselves above the law. To do so would violate the Equal Protection Clause. The Congress critter are a citizen. Subject to the same rule of law as any other citizen. To argue any other way out of some misplaced notion of "preventing future maybe abuses" is nonsense as well. Law does NOT work on the bases of "What if" it works on WHAT IS. What IF your What if NEVER happens? We deal in what IS, not What IF.