Posted on 05/15/2008 1:58:48 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON | Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday rejected Karl Rove’s latest offer to provide written responses to questions about the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
In a letter to the former White House adviser’s attorney, Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and several other Democrats said Rove’s written responses would not allow for give-and-take questioning.
They asked Rove to reconsider his refusal to testify in person and under oath, giving him until May 21 to respond.
The committee has threatened to subpoena Rove about allegations that he pushed the Justice Department to prosecute Siegelman, who was convicted in 2006 on corruption charges and sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
The dispute is the latest in a standoff between President Bush and Congress over testimony from current and former White House staffers.
Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham was among the Judiciary Committee Democrats signing Wednesday’s letter.
Remember Karl, if push comes to shove we’ve learned the hard way the correct response is “I don’t recall”.
I’d love to see Rove and a lawyer in front of a room full of these guys. Rove is obviously dozing off, and every few minutes the lawyer leans into his mic and intones, “My client takes the 5th.”
“Please state your name for the record.”
“I can’t recall.”
They left this tidbit out, ““We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.” So said Conyers.
The Democraps are pushing hard - and probably likely to succeed - to criminalize any opposition to their power and policies.
What if Rove did nothing but is leading them around to see how far they’ll go to make fools of themselves? What if Rove was never really a part of the Bush adminstration?
With the mountains and mountains of bad stuff the Democrats did, and do, and we got in with the WH and the Congress and we didn’t hold them accountable. I think Bill and Hillary and many of their associates should be in prison instead of amassing wealth. It just fries me to think of what they do to us and we just take it.
They’re just trying to keep Karl distracted for the next few months.
“Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and several other Democrats said Rove’s written responses would not allow for give-and-take questioning.”
Correction: Rove’s written responses would not allow for hours and hours of grandstanding in front of tv cameras by the committee members.
Mr. Rove should invoke the Nuclear Option: switch his affiliation to Democrat. They NEVER prosecute their own.
I don’t know. I think Rove live and in person has the potential to be fun. (Or not, if you’re Conyers and his Crap Crusaders.)
LOL, that would be about the ultimate Rovian maneuver.
I’d rather contribute to Rove’s legal defense fund rather than give a damn penny to McCain’s fund.
Listening to McCain and his speeches today has me seeing red.
No doubt Karl would agree to a little one on one action provided the Democrats agreed to come to the hearing sober.
You mean like the type of questioning Roger Clemens faced?
Imprecise questions like:
"In THAT conversation you had with xxxx back in 2000 OR 2001, did you discuss..."
They only had 2 coversations in 2 years? At the point the question was ventured, they were trying to establish that certain things had been said. "THAT" conversation could only have occurred on ONE date. If there were MULTIPLE conversations on the topic, that would be a different question. So WHICH conversation was Roger being asked about and in what year?
The whole mockery is designed to catch a person in a lie. The Congressmen are not held accountable for their witchhunt.
Meanwhile they still don't know that oral sex IS sex or what the meaning of IS is.
I don't doubt for a millisecond that Rove would LOVE to demolish the unbelievably stupid Siegelman conspiracy nonsense in the fetid faces of the pea-brained congressional moonbats pushing it. And I would LOVE to watch him do it. It's almost too damned bad he has the honor to uphold the principle of executive privilege.
"There will not be any need for a subpoena... Rove is not the we want..."
"There won't be a subpoena... we don't want Rove"
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