Posted on 12/04/2007 10:19:23 PM PST by STARWISE
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a committee vote Thursday on contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas.
Under Judiciary Committee rules, the vote could be postponed for a week, but Leahy said he intends to move the criminal contempt resolutions as soon as possible. Last week, he rejected the White House's executive privilege claim in preventing Rove and Bolten from appearing before his panel, calling it "overbroad, unsubstantiated, and not legally valid," setting the stage for Thursday's showdown.
Rove and Bolten were subpoenaed earlier in the year by the Senate panel as part of the investigation into the sacking of nine U.S. attorneys. President Bush, citing executive privilege, refused to make the two senior aides available for questioning by the committee.
Leahy predicted that the contempt resolutions could reach the Senate floor sometime early next year. Bush has also blocked Bolten and former White House counsel Harriett Miers from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. The House panel has voted out criminal contempt resolutions against both of them, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), concerned about divisions within her party over the issue, has yet to set a date for a floor vote.
If either chamber were to approve contempt resolutions, it would likely trigger a lengthy court fight over the extent of executive privilege and how far the president can go in preventing senior aides from appeared before congressional committees.
Leahy sets Thursday vote for contempt resolutions against Rove, Bolten
He is no one to talk.
NOUN:
1. A clown; a jester: a court buffoon.
2. A person given to clowning and joking.
3. A ludicrous or bumbling person; a fool.
ETYMOLOGY:
French bouffon, from Old Italian buffone, from buffa, jest, from buffare, to puff, of imitative origin
PING~!
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Take heart! Your tax dollars at work! /s
Morons.. The American public rates Congress as the lowest things on the planet, liking just about /anything/ more than it. Why they’d want to annoy the electorate even further I don’t know, but this type of trash is perfect for the Republican party.
This is perfect for the GOP. Its stuff like this that keeps the democrat congress rating lowest ever.
Maryland is the test case state for these maneuvers.
By a ‘fluke’ fove years age, voters actually put a Republican in the Governor’s Mansion for four yrars. What a shock to the Establishment Party, who still controlled both houses of the legislature and both big city newspapers.
As the Republican governor had inherited a deficit, he went on a cutting spending plan, and among other things, he removed people and positions from the state payroll. Some of these people were not civil servants but political appointees who served at the pleasure of the governor. Since there hadn’t been anything but a Dem governor for decades, they never considered that their jobs could be in peril. Also the previous Dem governor had converted hundreds of positions out of the civil service in another example of crooked politics.
Anyway, the legislature started “investigating” the firing practices of Governor Ehrlich. This demonization lasted for his entire governorship, with the aid of the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post. There was no “there” there.
See the MD4Bush stories.
Now Congress is doing the same thing to President Bush, via Rove, Bolten, Miers, etc.
This will put “criminaltiy” in the so-called news reporting all next year, in order to convince voters not to vote anywhere on any tickets for any Republican.
Leahy...
You should be charged with treason for leaking classified information while you were a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. You despicable p.o.s.
Rove to Leahy;
“Senator I assure you my contempt is limited to folks who think like you, not the whole of Congress.”
Translation: she doesn't have the votes to win and would look foolish to try. Why take a hit as speaker playing the part of the fool when Leahy will do it?
It’s obvious he doesn’t have anything better to do
I hope Rush talks about this on his program today. He has always hit Leaky Leahy for his DUmmie stunts.
Do any Freepers know, is Canada a state or are they just a possession like Puerto Rico?
When will they subpoena Clinton?
NM, I'm just being ridiculous and bipartisan..
We are being invaded from the South and all these useless slugs can do is play Watergate.
Off with their heads.
just e mailed Rush; Haven’t we heard for the last several years that we invaded the wrong country, we should have invaded Iran?
Thanks for the ping starwise. I have been decorating and not keeping up with the news!
Did like the ‘advice letter’ that Rove wrote to Obama though, lol, saw it on Drudge the other day.
</sarc>
Excellent, as always devolve!
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Watergate II for Hillary = misdirection time
Hope so, right now she’s still on the right side of the bars!!
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No -
She’s just living in a decorated cell!
OK, wonder if Martha Stewart showed up to do the decorating, lol.
The first presidential candidate that convinces me that he will bring this traitor and his dem cohorts justice, will get my vote.
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LOL!
Sounds like a “good thing”!
Maybe.
Don't want to be banned for life from FR for advocating . . .
I think Rove should testify, then answer whatever questions he is asked with prepared statements on each members failings. How’s that for contempt. It would be great theater because all of the networks would cover it as “here’s our chance to get Rove” when in fact he’ll turn the tables on them.
There, I corrected your post for you...
(I'm not being critical of your post... I'm agreeing. I think the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do and I agree that Iran is a really big problem, but illegal immigration from Mexico is, perhaps, a bigger problem)
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