> "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.

>