Once again Bush decides that ‘protecting’ one of his ‘good ole boys’ from questions designed to get to the truth is the best course of action for tis country. The integrity of the U.S. Attorneys Office is in the balance. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been ineffective at shaking Gonzales from his perch what does Rove have to afraid of?
Getting to the bottom of anything in this administration is the nearly impossible. Actually, we know the truth, but getting these guys to own up to it is what is impossible.
Bush blocks every investigation and hides behind ‘executive privilege’. Why is he covering up what a few simple questions will uncover. That is, assuming Rove would actually be adult enough to tell the truth. It cannot possibly shed any illuminate anything worse than he has already been guilty of.
It is a simple matter of whether or not Rove had anything to do with the wrongful firings of attorneys. If he is guilty then make him answer for it.
Bush has come up with the lame excuse for evoking this privilege by saying he is trying to 'protect' his ability to receive 'candid' advice. Giving advice is not criminal, acting on advice that results in wrongful termination is criminal and that responsibility lies squarely on you Mr. president. Aren’t you intelligent enough to know when advice can result in criminal activity? Aren't you moral enough to know what is right and what is wrong despite it's legality? Didn’t you know that firing attorneys for political reasons was wrong? If you are getting advice from someone who doesn’t care about the legality or morality of your actions then he should be discarded immediately. Don’t protect this low-life.
Taking this man’s ‘advice’ has put the U.S. Attorney General on the hot seat, has added to the pile of evidence against you that you are nothing without advisors, and at best it just shows that you have to be led around by the nose like a puppet. Don’t you have any original thoughts that you can call your own? Who is actually running this government, aren’t you tired of just being a mouthpiece? Have you no pride?
In response to the committees subpoena, White House counsel Fred Fielding has the unabashed temerity to chastise the Senate Judiciary Committee for not ‘asking nicely’ for information. As if they could expect the White House to answer truthfully.
Karl Rove had no problem discussing this matter with the media until he was told he needs to discuss the matter under oath. As soon as he realizes that someone doesn’t like what he said and begins questioning him on the facts behind his comments he clams up. He is all puffed up with importance by having been associated with something that gets into the media until someone calls him on it and then he shrivels away and hides behind ‘his daddy’. This is the behavior of a petulant child. The statements he made contradicted the U.S. Attorney Generals version of the events and as such deserve to be investigated. Bush is acting as a parent trying to protect his child from those who are rightfully seeking justice.
The White House already has invoked executive privilege to block previous testimony by former White House political director Sara Taylor and former White House counsel Harriet Miers, who skipped a hearing in the House two weeks ago, and to keep Chief of Staff Josh Bolten from turning over documents subpoenaed as part of the inquiry.
The panel voted to cite Miers and Bolten for contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas. An action that would get anyone else thrown in jail. But this is the 'justice system of the double standard'. The decision on whether to pursue any action on those citations lies with the Justice Department. So we already know what will come of this.
The privilege claim can be challenged in court. But Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, has said the courts would be unlikely to resolve any challenge before Bush leaves office.
So, once again, the highest ranking republican on the committee has taken all of the steam out of committee chairman Leahy’s power by saying nothing will come of it so why bother. The ‘good ole boy’ network at its best. Specter deserves a big pat on the head and a treat from Bush for being a "good, obedient 'public' servant".
Bush claims the firings was handled properly yet three top Justice Department officials resigned and the U.S. Attorney General lied by saying ‘he doesn’t recall’. Bush’s version of what is proper differs greatly from what any morally responsible person of integrity determines to be proper.
By Gonzales choosing to hide behind his self-proclaimed weak memory’s ability to recall something as important as interrupting eight peoples lives, he has trivialized the lives of these same eight people.
Just another event that defines this poor excuse for a human being.
Gonzales says ‘I may have created confusion’. I laughed when I read this. He is trying to be contrite by saying this. Notice he didn’t actually admit to creating confusion, he says he ‘may have’ created confusion. If he is sincere, and somehow I doubt this possibility, he needs to go before the committee and ‘correct his testimony’, in other words, ‘undo his lies’. But of course we know he won’t do this. This ploy is nothing more than a political show for those naive fools who still believe in him.
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