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Well, that's just swell. The President of the United States has just told the United States Senate to get stuffed.
In short, here's the scoop: Attorney General Alberto "The Waterboarding Kid" Gonzales fired a number of US Attorneys for "poor performance", apparently with White House approval.
It turns out that that these particular US Attorneys all had very good ratings and almost all had good to great performance evaluations.
It also turns out that every one of them either refused to back down from ethical investigations against Republicans or refused to pursue unwarranted investigations against Democrats.
It's pretty clear that Gonzales lied to Congress when they first tried to investigate this stupidity.
The White House and the Attorney General's office are only handing over some of the papers requested by the Senate, and now the President has said that no officials of the Executive branch will respond to Congressional subpoenas.
And who pursues the scofflaws who refuse to appear before Congress? Why, that would be...
wait for it...
the Attorney General's office.
If this all plays out the way the principals are indicating they're going to play it, then Congress will only have one option remaining.
Impeachment.
Stay tuned.
In short, here's the scoop: Attorney General Alberto "The Waterboarding Kid" Gonzales fired a number of US Attorneys for "poor performance", apparently with White House approval.
It turns out that that these particular US Attorneys all had very good ratings and almost all had good to great performance evaluations.
It also turns out that every one of them either refused to back down from ethical investigations against Republicans or refused to pursue unwarranted investigations against Democrats.
It's pretty clear that Gonzales lied to Congress when they first tried to investigate this stupidity.
The White House and the Attorney General's office are only handing over some of the papers requested by the Senate, and now the President has said that no officials of the Executive branch will respond to Congressional subpoenas.
And who pursues the scofflaws who refuse to appear before Congress? Why, that would be...
wait for it...
the Attorney General's office.
If this all plays out the way the principals are indicating they're going to play it, then Congress will only have one option remaining.
Impeachment.
Stay tuned.
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Date: 2007-03-21 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-21 04:07 am (UTC)Crazy.