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House subpoenas Karl Rove in Justice Dept. probe
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/22/8 | LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 05/22/2008 11:39:31 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: fire and forget

Why isn’t this bunch of miscreants in Washington driving legislation towards drilling for oil offshore Florida, Gulf, offshore California, Alaska, etc. and setting in motion the construction of a whole lot more nuclear plants? It’s insane what’s going on with this bunch of democrats and they’re vortexing us into hell.


21 posted on 05/22/2008 12:11:56 PM PDT by yorkie01
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To: RedEyeJack
John Conyers continues his quest (obsession)...

You've got that right. Conyers should be looking into why democrat voters in Michgigan and Florida aren't having their votes counted. The last time they went after Rove they ended up convicting Scooter Libby. The democrat leadership is filled with bitter bile and don't care who they get as long as they can somehow snag a Republican. The days of the loyal opposition are long over. Democrats are officialy the anti-American party.
22 posted on 05/22/2008 12:23:34 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: fire and forget

It’s always darkest before dawn.

The real danger is the lack of leadership in the GOP.


23 posted on 05/22/2008 12:25:21 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: Brilliant

Civil conflict is just around the corner these days. That would be beyond stupid.


24 posted on 05/22/2008 12:27:43 PM PDT by alarm rider (Peace! through superior fire power....)
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To: yorkie01

The chicoms are perfectly welcome to drill in ANWR. Off Fla. off kali, anywhere in the gulf.


25 posted on 05/22/2008 12:33:32 PM PDT by Waco
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To: SmithL

Rove should just show them his lifetime pardon....and the finger.


26 posted on 05/22/2008 12:38:09 PM PDT by Niteranger68 (Do not run from the Republican Party. Take it back!)
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To: massgopguy

“That would be a serious error in judgement.”

I don’t know about that. My suspicion is that the conservatives and the GOP would just let it slide. Maybe Hannity and Limbaugh would spend a couple of days talking about it, but that would be the worst of it for the Dems.


27 posted on 05/22/2008 12:41:15 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
Rove will ignore the subpoena claiming his consultations with the President on the issue fall under executive privilege.

The committee members will use that as an opportunity to grandstand, but it's extremely unlikely that they will ever try to prosecute Rove for contempt of congress for ignoring the subpoena. If they do, it will likely take over a year or more, possibly several, for the courts to determine if Congress has the authority to force him to testify.

At that point, Rove can then start with the "I don't recall" responses.

Since these are political appointees that were let go, there is nothing illegal about them being fired, even if it was for political reasons.

So the question is are they going to continue with a multi-year investigation that is looking into if Congress might want to make something the Executive branch did illegal in the future.

Not a chance.

This is being done for political grandstanding, nothing more.

28 posted on 05/22/2008 12:41:56 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: SmithL

I LOVE watching Rove beat the tar out of the Liberal Congressional rabid ferrets with one hand tied behind his back.


29 posted on 05/22/2008 12:42:23 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: untrained skeptic

“Since these are political appointees that were let go, there is nothing illegal about them being fired...”

That won’t stop the Dems. Scooter Libby was convicted of leaking the name of a covert agent who wasn’t really a covert agent. The facts mean nothing to these people. As long as they control the system and have the power to put you in jail, they will.


30 posted on 05/22/2008 12:44:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SmithL
He is expected to face questions about the White House's role in firing nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.

No. He is expected not to testify since anything he would have to say would be clearly covered by executive privilege. The demoncRats and their lapdogs in the MSM are then expected to howl through the November election about how Bush is like Nixon invoking executive privilege to keep Congress from learning about their evil doings.

The Republicans need to demand that subpoenas be issued to all of Clinton's staff to find out about the White House's role in firing ALL of the U.S. attorneys when Clinton took office, to quash then pending investigations of demoncRats.

Every Republican running against a demoncRat incumbent needs to make this a national race against the "do nothing, good for nothing" demoncRat controlled Congress.

31 posted on 05/22/2008 12:53:54 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ("I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the tooth fairy." - John Edwards)
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To: Brilliant
Scooter Libby was convicted of leaking the name of a covert agent who wasn’t really a covert agent.

90% of the public probably believes that as well. It is not the case. Scooter was convicted of a "process crime" which had absolutely nothing to do with the original charges in the case.



Does anybody even know who Richard Armitage is?
32 posted on 05/22/2008 12:55:27 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Brilliant

don’t know about that. My suspicion is that the conservatives and the GOP would just let it slide. Maybe Hannity and Limbaugh would spend a couple of days talking about it, but that would be the worst of it for the Dems.

I don’t think the conservatives would sit by and let that happen. I for one wouldn’t.


33 posted on 05/22/2008 12:56:37 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: fire and forget

I honestly believe that we now have more people in the cart than we have pushing and more are getting in every day. I keep wondering were John Galt found that gulch in Colorado.


34 posted on 05/22/2008 12:58:47 PM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: Bitsy

What would you do about it?

Now, if there was rioting, bombings, etc., maybe the Dems would back off, but that ain’t gonna happen.


35 posted on 05/22/2008 1:09:34 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Bob Buchholz

Can’t help looking each time I fly over the Rockies on a clear day. Funny you should mention it. I read Atlas Shrugged for a first time just a few months ago.


36 posted on 05/22/2008 1:14:38 PM PDT by fire and forget
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To: SmithL
OKAY, its my real hair!

Its not from the Hair Club For Men.

Its my real hair, I swear its Mine!

Its not roadkill its my hair!

Steroids, yes you are correct, I'm not on steroids!

I don't know anyone from Balco Inc.

Do I know Barry Bonds, No!

Out on bond, No I'm not out on bond!

Excuse me your democrat appointment Sir, but did you just put me out on a $100,000 dollar bond, for what?

Did I have aLL of my childhood immunizations? No, I haven't had my innoculation for cervical cancer.

I must admit to the committee that I don't even have a cervix, unless you count my wife's cervix which I get to jump on one a month.

Unless, of course "the red menance" is visiting our house at the time!

Hugo Chavez's assasination? I didn't think he was dead? I didn't even hear that he had been shot?

we're pretty sure he'll piss off the wrong Hombre's husband pretty soon and that will take care of that,comprende effe?

I don't know?

Was, I in cahoots with Oliver North?

Yes, we are both members of the Republican Party!

No, I don't have a condom you can barrow, Sir!

Maybe I need a fire proof lawyer soon?

37 posted on 05/22/2008 2:51:02 PM PDT by STD (Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: Brilliant

Scooter Libby was convicted of...what??


38 posted on 05/22/2008 6:48:51 PM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult and the Clinton Machine!!)
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To: Brilliant

I’m just never going to give up no matter what!


39 posted on 05/23/2008 6:53:29 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: SmithL

Do House subpoenas have any enforcement powers?


40 posted on 05/23/2008 11:01:59 AM PDT by John123 (Obama said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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