Posted on 07/11/2008 10:18:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
WASHINGTON - Karl Rove had never been so agreeable.
The former chief strategist to President Bush was the only witness listed on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, and he proved to be uncharacteristically contained.
Rep. Linda Sanchez, chairman of the subcommittee holding the hearing, declared herself "extremely disappointed and deeply concerned" about Rove's behavior.
Rove was silent.
Sanchez spoke of his "role in the alleged politicization of the Justice Department" and his hand in "the unprecedented firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006."
Rove offered no defense.
"If such allegations were true," said Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah, the ranking Republican on the panel, "they would be very serious."
Rove did not dispute this.
There was good reason for The Architect's quiet: He was out of the country. He had no intention of appearing before Congress, and he had sent the panel the equivalent of a doctor's note - from no less a medical authority than White House counsel Fred Fielding - saying he did not have respond to the congressional subpoena.
So lawmakers decided to pull out one of the most feared weapons in their arsenal: the empty-chair stunt. They printed up a name card for "Mr. Karl Rove" and displayed it on the witness table. They put out a glass of cold water with ice, and pointed the microphone toward an empty wooden armchair.
"This meeting today is a travesty of a mockery of a sham," protested Cannon, paraphrasing the great authority on separation-of-power disputes, Woody Allen.
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Empty chair on one side. Empty suits on the other.
The sound of one hand clapping.
At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious..Rove would be a damn fool for showing up at any Congressional hearing..
Reads like a Monty Python skit.
It sounds like a bunch of overpaid political hacks wasting more of my money. Pass some legislation to drill for oil everwhere there is oil. Do something worthwhile you pack of idiots. Congress should close the door and go home as they would do no harm there.
The sound of one lip flapping!
I’m torn on the issue. On the one hand we have the usual clowns in Congress hitting us up for six-figure salaries for playing little girls’ tea party games. On the other, they’re not legislating while they’re doing it. There is that.
I suspect that one hand was making a different, more vertical and repetitive close fisted gesture.........
Personally, I’d like to see someone testify before these buffoons and do to them what Howard Hughes did. I just wish they’d call me up for some reason...
To paraphrase Rush, Rove would have nothing to fear from this looney and treacherous bunch with his whole brain tied behind his back.
No wonder Republicans aren’t faring well and Cannon lost his bid for reelection. Republicans should have used every minute of their mic time to ridicule the democrat chair for holding a hearing of a phantom while Americans are paying incredibly high energy prices and democrats dither. They could have railed against democrat resistance to recovering our own resources even in the face of economic pressure. What a friggin waste of time, what an unnecessary emission of excess CO2.
Is this the 'dirty Sanchez' I keep hearing about?
After reading this article, a 9 percent approval rating for Congress seems to be too high.
If I were Rove, I’d have sent a paper bag full of freshly produced $h*t to be placed in the assigned seat in the hearing room.
I suspect that one hand was making a different, more vertical and repetitive close fisted gesture.........
My guess is that Congress has gotten so good at this under the 'hands on" coaching of Bawney Fwank, they are actually able to switch hands and gain a stroke.
Quote: “Reads like a Monty Python skit.”
And now to comment on this hearing a cat, a duck and a lizard.
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