Encouraging, but while the printer was hot, Conyers' committee also should have sent one of those subpoenas down to SmarTech Corp in Chattanooga, TN which runs the gwb43.com and all of the rest of the RNC enterprise architecture.

Wait, doesn't the RNC have executive privilege?
It says so in the constitution, right?

Sorry Jake! The term you are looking for is Executive Criminality! Baby!

The GOP is the largest organized crime operation in history. The entire Republic party should be indicted as accessories, and RICO'd off to Gitmo, where they can play their twisted and repressed pyscho-sexual rape and sadism fantasies out for real. Careful with that soap, Jake!

Nah, poggy -- see if GWB ate lunch at the RNC once, executive privilege even extends to the lettuce in his sandwich. Anything George touches is sanctified.

This, of course, only is operative for Republicans.

If the White House is trying to extend executive privilege to the RNC, a partisan political organization, doesn't that necessarily infer a Hatch Act violation?

Wikipedia sez: "The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity."

Who the hell is this Jake D? I'm just a lurker, but even I can reconginze a clownn when he shows up.

It's time to shit or get off the pot -- as my daddy used to say. Impeach everyone who's impeachable -- Bush, Cheney, Gonzales -- and file contempt charges against the rest.

Dems are no longer coming across as judicious but effete.

Stop the threats already. DO SOMETHING!

sorry for the repeat posts...computer problems

Scribe57 asks, "How exactly does a political party claim "executive privilege?"

Answer: When the party believes it has the right to take over the executive branch of the federal government. Remember the permanent republican majority that Karl is creating.

"Executive Privilege, baby!"
Is this the real Jake,or is this the Sears Jake?
I keep hoping that the D s get tough with the R s
C s(criminals).
code word rain as in :
And all the children are insane.
Waiting for the summer rain

Nancy needs to put impeachment back on the table. I juat watch Bill Moyer's Journal which was a discussion between Moyers and John Nichols from The Nation, and Bruce Fein from American Freedom Agenda.

The lesson I learned is that impeachment is NOT a constitutional crisis, impeachment is the cure.
Don't mistake the medicine for the disease.

IMPEACH BUSH / CHENEY 07

Why doesn't the HJC cut to the chase and call for the emails Patrick Fitzgerald has gathered that are relevant to this case? He would seem unlikely to stonewall, delete/expunge evidence, or hide behind the ashes of the Constitution.

Posted by: injusticeforall
Date: July 13, 2007 4:34 PM

Because, apparently, none of those emails are relevant to this case. The Plame matter did not include politically-motivated prosecutions of political opponents, and firing AGs who would do that, or who insisted in keeping with blind justice on prosecuting Republican corruption.

Take my word for it: the Congress knows a whole hell of a lot more not only about how Congress functions, and aboveboard investigation is conducted, and how to function in accordance with democratic due process of law -- Leahy and Conyers are lawyers, Leahy, and other members of both Seante and House committees, are former prosecutors -- than do you.

Moreover, Congress has much more evidence than the public -- and the Bushit criminal enterprise -- know about. See the following:

http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

In short, Congress is way ahead of you.

"It's time to shit or get off the pot -- as my daddy used to say. Impeach everyone who's impeachable -- Bush, Cheney, Gonzales -- and file contempt charges against the rest."

The Democrats don't (yet) have sufficient votes to impeach -- because of foot-dragging REPUBLICANS. Stop being a pro-Bushit troll: bash the foot-draggers.

"Dems are no longer coming across as judicious but effete."

The Democrats know what they are doing. You are clueless.

"Stop the threats already. DO SOMETHING!"

Subpoeans are as serious as a heart attack. It is a Federal felony to ignore such. It is additionally a Federal felony to insturct another to ignore subpoena.

The Democrats, not being Republicans, or ignorant jocks, operate in conformity with law.

Posted by: unpoetaloco
Date: July 13, 2007 6:33 PM

"So let's get the courts involved, pronto."

Before which judges, Mr. Uninformed?

"Heads we win, tails they lose."

Really?

"They've done about as much damage as they can already (outside of Iraq)."

There is more damage they can do.

"Have the courts deliver a precedent. When we win in '08, either we've got an open government, or we can shove things through Washington and they can't say "boo."

"I don't think even the most die hard gooper wants Hillary, Barack, or John to have Bush's power."

Are you incapable of connecting the known dots? The politicization of the DOJ is one element in Rove's intent to establish a "permanent Republican majority" -- a dictatorship with the outward appearances of democracy. The primary focus of that is to control elections so the majority elected is always Republican.

When will you be informing yourself about the Siegelman case?

Posted by: MasonMcD
Date: July 13, 2007 8:45 PM

Are you incapable of connecting the known dots?

I think you misunderstand me. If Bush stooge judges rule in his favor, and let him have these powers, then fine. Hillary or whoever also has those powers in '08. And we'll have the House and Senate.

But we need it decided *now*, not after Bush is gone.

A republican will *not* be elected in '08.

The dems are pursuing a deliberate, methodical strategy to keep GOP and Bushco corruption in the news and on a slow boil until prime election season. Then, having proven to the entire voting populace that the Bushco DOJ is a cesspool of dirty tricks, lies and vote-stealing, THEN AND ONLY THEN will they move this up into high gear and go after the WH directly. It's not the strategy me and ten thousand other hotheads are calling for, but it is a strategy. What is at stake is the entire two-party system. If Karl Rove wins, there won't be any more real elections as far as the Dems are concerned. Look what they have gotten away with already, in 2000 and 2004. You have to admit the Dems are certain about what is at stake. It's up to the ordinary people to keep pressure on them to fight for the rule of law and the principals of democracy. Always has been.