A Real Man Cites His Own Dog For Contempt
Show some stones, Senators. A special prosecutor would take forever to report, even if you got one installed. Most testimony would be in camera before a grand jury. It would take a round of testimony under oath to produce fresh lies for a perjury indictment, assuming a special prosecutor indicts him at all. Cite him for contempt and if that doesn’t work have the House impeach him. You could have cited him for contempt last week. Instead you’re going to spend next week whining about how the executive branch really ought to appoint someone to deal with the executive branch’s overreach. We are almost six years into this madness and you’re still waiting for someone else to do your damn jobs for you.
Comment by John Emerson —
July 28, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
I came here thinking this might be an interesting blog, but heckler convinced me that I was way wrong.
Comment by Mona —
July 28, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
John, I believe Jim has retired for the night, and I’ve asked him to ban this Heckler creature. She is very sick and is in legal trouble with some bloggers– including at last one wingnut bogger I do not like, but she truly is a disturbed person — and she is annoyed that Jim and I have been deleting her in other threads.
In the a.m., Jim will awake and he has the capacity to ban her IP address, as I do not. She is brand new here, and is not remotely representative of this blog. If she wants to post her depraved crap from now until Jim is back tomorrow, she can do so, because I myself am going to bed (and can only delete in my threads) — he has the ban keys and I don’t.
Comment by sab —
July 28, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
Well I’m not a constitutional expert, but I agree with you. We know that no one in DOJ is going to fall on his/her sword to appoint a special prosecutor. Comey was the last guy with the status/reputation/nerve to do that. Maybe Congress should try inherent contempt, because they are not going to get a special prosecutor.
I’m pretty much a Democrat, but I have voted for many Republicans in my day. Not any more. I used to think it was differences in ideology or world view. It seems to me now that Republicans are pretty much just a crime syndicate any more. I can’t believe that there are NO Republicans in Congress who will stand up to Bush and the DOJ. They don’t believe in law, or the Constitution any more. All they believe in is their pecking order on Congressional Committees, and their chances of landing profitable but pointless positions in right wing think tanks after Congress.
I’m not crazy about my local city councilman. I’d love to vote against him. But I have real concerns about voting for his Republican opponent, who is a marketing hot-shot in the locally based big company that makes HUGE contributions to the Republican party at the national, state and local level.
Comment by Frank —
July 29, 2007 @ 1:05 am
In order for them to show stones wouldn’t they have to have them?
Comment by Barry —
July 29, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
Also right now, it’s 100% clear that GOP senators are still supporting Bush. Their method is to avoid having things come to a vote which might embarrass him, but they’re still doing it. They’ll happily fillibuster significant Democratic bills, no matter what they say on camera.
That means that the Senate Dem leadership needs to push non-bill/law methods, to the max.
The only places where they can get anything done are those where a fillibuster doesn’t matter.
Therefore, they need to make those places their homes.
Comment by cfw —
July 30, 2007 @ 7:45 am
Congress can and should just appoint a private attorney to bring contempt charges, as allowed for federal judges by Vuitton. Federal judge is now doing just that in the Scruggs case in AL. Vuitton says first ask the US Atty to prosecute (there for contempt in violating orders re IP rights infringement), then judge hires his/her own counsel. Separation of powers means judges cannot be dependent on the executive branch, per the USSCT. Separation of powers means congress cannot be dependent on the executive branch. Simple, huh?