"A cataclysmic fight to the death" over congressional subpoenas
yes, yes, i know... i've been beating this dead horse for weeks, but... we MUST NOT FORGET that the bush administration laid out its unequivocal strategy for how it would respond to any congressional attempts at exercising oversight or exacting accountability BEFORE the november elections...
you can go to the bank on the fact that bushco will be doing exactly what they said they were going to do, henry waxman notwithstanding...
mr. waxman's hopeful sentiment is touching, but surely he knows there are only two scenarios that are likely to transpire here... one, his committee will issue the subpoenas and they will be ignored by the white house (or justice department or the state department or whatever other executive branch agency they're directed to)... that will force a consideration to declare contempt of congress, a judgment that would require enforcement by the justice department... since the justice department is peppered with bushco infiltrators, that won't happen, and the case would eventually have to be pushed up to the supreme court, another bushco enclave, with a positive outcome equally unlikely... the other scenario is that the subpoenas won't be issued and waxman will continue to huff and puff and nothing will be accomplished...
so, what's a body to do...? hell if i know... what i keep hoping is that, subpoenas or not, several truly damning revelations (there would have to be more than one) backed by hard evidence come into the possession of one or more house or senate investigative committees that will blow the whole bushco criminal enterprise wide open... this business of working piece-meal with condi, gonzo, rove, et al, may be good for chipping away at the power base of these arrogant criminals, but, by the time such efforts bring down any walls, 20 january 2009 will be upon us, and the damage done between now and then may very well be irreversible...
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In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."
you can go to the bank on the fact that bushco will be doing exactly what they said they were going to do, henry waxman notwithstanding...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) sought yesterday to pressure the Bush administration into divulging sensitive policy information, scheduling a committee vote for Wednesday on his plan to issue four subpoenas for the information.
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"I never found it necessary to issue subpoenas to either President Bush's father's Administration or the Reagan Administration," Waxman said in a statement. "We were always able to reach an accommodation that respected our legitimate interests. I hope that will continue to be the case with this White House" and the information will be provided voluntarily.
mr. waxman's hopeful sentiment is touching, but surely he knows there are only two scenarios that are likely to transpire here... one, his committee will issue the subpoenas and they will be ignored by the white house (or justice department or the state department or whatever other executive branch agency they're directed to)... that will force a consideration to declare contempt of congress, a judgment that would require enforcement by the justice department... since the justice department is peppered with bushco infiltrators, that won't happen, and the case would eventually have to be pushed up to the supreme court, another bushco enclave, with a positive outcome equally unlikely... the other scenario is that the subpoenas won't be issued and waxman will continue to huff and puff and nothing will be accomplished...
so, what's a body to do...? hell if i know... what i keep hoping is that, subpoenas or not, several truly damning revelations (there would have to be more than one) backed by hard evidence come into the possession of one or more house or senate investigative committees that will blow the whole bushco criminal enterprise wide open... this business of working piece-meal with condi, gonzo, rove, et al, may be good for chipping away at the power base of these arrogant criminals, but, by the time such efforts bring down any walls, 20 january 2009 will be upon us, and the damage done between now and then may very well be irreversible...
Labels: Bush Administration, constitutional crisis, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, Henry Waxman, House Oversight Committee, Impeachment, Ronald Reagan, subpoenas, Supreme Court, White House
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4/21/2007
