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Re: #Showdown begins today: Congress versus criminals         

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Author: Jim Alder
Date: Jul 10, 2007 08:21

"Kevin Cunningham" mindspring.com> wrote:
> "Jim Alder" ssnet.com> ...
>> 3607 Dead finestplanet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6766690,00.html
>>>
>>> Congress Returns, Ready to Take on Bush
>>
>> Eager to. I doubt they're ready to.
>>
>>> Monday July 9, 2007 11:46 AM
>>> By LAURIE KELLMAN
>>> Associated Press Writer
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressmen returning from their Independence Day
>>> break are ready for battle with the White House, with Democrats
>>> decrying President Bush's commutation of former aide I. Lewis
>>> ``Scooter'' Libby's prison sentence and fighting Bush's latest claim
>>> of executive privilege.
>>>
>>> Both events occurred around Congress' vacation, inflaming an intense
>>> battle between Democrats and Bush over his use of executive power.
>>
>> Oh no! And they were getting along so well before now!
>>
>>> Several Democrat-led investigations are playing out this week as they
>>> head toward contempt of Congress citations and, if neither side
>>> yields, federal court:
>>>
>>> -Monday is the deadline for the White House to explain why Bush is
>>> refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for e-mails and other
>>> documents on his aides' involvement in the firings of eight federal
>>> prosecutors last winter.
>>
>> Another 'investigation' of another non-crime.
>>
>>> The White House is not expected to comply with the deadline.
>>
>> Don't blame him. All they want is a list of names of everyone mentioned in
>> an email or mentioned in a document so they can interrogate them for a few
>> days and hope they make a mistake like Libby did.
>>
>>> -In a pair of hearings Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will
>>> look at Bush's commutation last week of Libby's prison sentence for
>>> obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case.
>>
>> They're going to 'look at it'? What's to look at?
>>
>>> The Senate Judiciary
>>> Committee is expected to hear from former White House political
>>> director Sara Taylor about the prosecutor firings, according to
>>> Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
>>>
>>> -The next day, the House panel is expected to turn to the prosecutor
>>> firings and has scheduled testimony from former White House Counsel
>>> Harriet Miers. It's unclear whether she will appear.
>>
>> Lots of things are unclear, like why President Bush can't do his job
>> without a flock of Democretins crawling up his ass looking for anything
>> they can pretend is a crime.
>>
> So whats a "pretend crime"?

Your conception, Kev.
> Libby was convicted by a jury of his peers and
> by a repug judge.

With at least one jurorwho didn't belong - a reporter with an agenda and
preconceived guilty verdict. And since when did you start believing Republican
judges? Hell, you can't even type the word Republican without turning it into
an insult. You're pathologically blocked from doing so.
> It went to an appeals court and they had no problem with
> it so he was and is guilty as charged. So were's the pretend crime? Is it
> evading service of process? Is it conspiring with others to evade
> prosecution?

It's not having an infallible memory after days of questioning.
> If I were defending a repug I'd get my client soooo far away from any
> repugs.....

If you were defending me, I'd shoot myself.

--
President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania
that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship,
provided they learn Spanish. - Ann Coulter
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