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Conyers: 'We're closing in on Rove'
Politico ^ | 5-15-08 | Ryan Grim

Posted on 05/15/2008 10:57:21 AM PDT by kingattax

Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.”

Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn’t, said Conyers, “We’ll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We’d hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested.”

Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, among other things.

“We want him for so many things, it’s hard to keep track,” Conyers said


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; abuseofpower; bds; conyers; getrove; partisanwitchhunt; rove; siegelman
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To: Spouting Horn

Gotta admit, I can’t stand the guy. Rove, I mean. But I hate the Conyers duo with every last one of my guts.


61 posted on 05/15/2008 1:06:59 PM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: GOYAKLA; SunkenCiv

Nothing came up when I googled “conyers extradition” and nothing appears in the wikipedia artice about it (gee, what a surprise) but it sure sounds familiar. Civ, could you take a look at post #40? You beat the tar out of me when it comes to history.


62 posted on 05/15/2008 1:18:33 PM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: weegee

Luckily they will have Secret Service protection for life. Also, no sworn law enforcement officer is going to attempt to arrest someone based on a town hall vote in the city of Smelly Hippie, VT.


63 posted on 05/15/2008 2:07:23 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: kingattax
Either that or go and have him arrested.”

I almost wish he really would arrest Rove.

This whole shell game of political whoremongering would all come crashing down.

Since Rove has left the WH he is far more valuable to the MSM as an inside political man than sitting in some jail on assclown trumpeted up charges.

I do belive the MSM would support Rove and start asking Conyers some real tough questions on what his motivation really is?

64 posted on 05/15/2008 2:15:36 PM PDT by Popman ("When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.")
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Thank God that Congress is addressing the issues that effect every day Americans.... /s

Well, he is in a way, 30 % of the country are suffering from moonbat fever and dream to see Rove do the perp walk.

To a moonbat, Rove is the problem with the country

65 posted on 05/15/2008 2:18:59 PM PDT by Popman ("When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.")
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To: Polyxene
Rove is gone from the White House, and the RATs are still obsessed with him!

They hate him because Karl beat them twice in presidential elections, and are afraid he may do the same in another election so take out Rove. The Dems are vindictive little worms, especially when they perceive a person is an effective opponent. Remember Tom Delay or Newt Gingrich.

66 posted on 05/15/2008 2:20:33 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: EyeGuy

You reminded me of going to see Jules Feiffer’s very conflicted, but excellent play about the McCarthy era
a few years ago, slightly off Broadway. It was called
A BAD FRIEND. Before the play began, there was a newsreel/montage sequence projected onto a scrim in front of and over the stage. Various images of Mc Carthy came on , and as the audience was still filing in, I couldn’t resist clapping lightly at the sight of Joe.....you should have seen the querulous looks I got from this NYC audience.... Surprisingly good play, considering Jules’s political stance on most things, (which was never doctrinaire Leftist, anyway),


67 posted on 05/15/2008 2:41:23 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)
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To: kingattax
Well ya know, the way Dems keep winning and we keep teaching 'em a lesson, I guess this seems to be the will of the people.

Count me disappointed.

68 posted on 05/15/2008 3:55:09 PM PDT by drc43 (US won despite us... NOW what?... Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Jack Black

NOPE. Secret Service protection for all presidents after Bill Clinton is only 10 years.

It was changed in the 1990s.

I say impeach Bill Clinton and strip him of his taxpayer funds.


69 posted on 05/15/2008 4:47:17 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: Red Steel

Which reminds me. Tom Delay’s case still hasn’t come to trial. And I think Ronnie Earle has stepped down.


70 posted on 05/15/2008 4:49:32 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: kingattax
We’d hold him in contempt.

I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutal.

71 posted on 05/15/2008 4:51:42 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: RedEyeJack

With all due respect, it doesn’t just “point that way”.

Joe McCarthy did what he had to do to uncover a REAL and GRAVE danger to our government. He was hounded by his enemies who were in collusion either actively through their outright assistance or passively through their focused ennui towards communist infiltration at all levels of the government.

Nobody should have “called” McCarthy on ANYTHING.

What should have been happening was that people like Alger Hiss, Owen Lattimore and John Stewart Service should have been shown the door at at worst (Which in the case of Lattimore and Service was what McCarthy was suggesting) and at best, should have been hanged for treason, particularly Alger Hiss. People seem to forget that Alger Hiss and people like him were passing military information to the Soviet Union.

Joseph McCarthy was an American hero. He was slandered and defamed by the same type of people who practice the same types of tactics on their enemies today.

I was one of those people who unthinkingly believed about McCarthy what my teachers taught me in school, and what I saw in the newpapers, magazines and on television over the years.

When I read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason”, I was perplexed. I was puzzled why her account of the famous encounter between Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy was so completely and diametrically different from the accounts I had grown up with and been taught.

Those accounts weren’t just a little different, They were COMPLETELY different. So I did what the Internet allows you to do these days: I researched. I obtained the transcripts of the actual hearings, and read them.

Ann Coulter was spot on in her characterization of that hearing, and the others as well. After I read that, I began to read everything that didn’t appear to be completely slanted against McCarthy. I read three separate books on Venona, and then capped it off with the book that was, for me, the most important political book I have read in my life.

“Witness”, by Whittaker Chambers.

I was completely astounded by that book, and it explained a lot of things for me. It explained why the Left viewed Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy the way they did, and why all three of them, Chambers, Nixon, and McCarthy were villified and slandered by a poisonous and biased media.

I have a web page on my site devoted to this issue at:
http://web.mac.com/rlmorel/iWeb/Site/Whittaker%20Chambers.html

What is perhaps most disturbing of all is to see that the Left practices the exact same form of character assassination warfare today that it practiced fifty years ago against Whittaker Chambers. Exactly.

So, nothing personal against you (and thank you for that very civil response on your part) but you should think twice when you express viewpoints that reinforce and propagate the liberal viewpoint about who McCarthy was and how he ran his meetings. It is false.


72 posted on 05/15/2008 5:11:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: kingattax

Conyers is an insect.


73 posted on 05/15/2008 5:33:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: kingattax

This from the idiot that taught Kwame Kilpatrick everything he knows.


74 posted on 05/15/2008 5:36:53 PM PDT by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: Ann Archy
the DUMBEST man in politics

I beg to differ!


75 posted on 05/15/2008 6:39:07 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: grellis; GOYAKLA

The extradition request was passed over by Gov Engler as well. The case to which you refer has to do with some POS who escaped after sentencing and imprisonment, and fled to family in Michigan.


76 posted on 05/15/2008 11:32:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Witch hunt ping. Thanks grellis.

Rove, you magnificent bastard!


77 posted on 05/15/2008 11:34:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: rlmorel
Guess I hit a nerve. Thanks for the detailed description.

Point remains however... McCarthy was taken to task for the way he ran his hearings. He was publicly humilated and driven from office (rightly, as we have been told for two generations, or wrongly as you point out). On point, Conyers appears just as obsessed but no one is paying any attention... I personally think someone should ask Patrick Fitzgerald... Sir, have you no shame?

78 posted on 05/16/2008 2:47:38 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: caisson71

You could sell tickets. LOTS of tickets. Making money kicking Conyers’ BUTT! Wow what a concept. The American way.


79 posted on 05/19/2008 7:27:12 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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