Just issue the goddamn subpoenas, Mr. Conyers.

[cali]

Same to you Mr. Leahy. I know and you know- hell, everyone knows that bargaining with this administration over this is absurd. They will not capitulate and let Rove testify under oath. Not in public. Not in private. Not under the sea or on the moon.

Don't bother saying stuff like this:
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, said subpoena authority is ``merely a backup'' while Congress negotiates with the administration. ``We are not going to move in a reckless or angry or temperamental way at all,'' he said.
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Same to you, Mr. Schumer:

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Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat leading the Senate Judiciary Committee's inquiry, signaled that lawmakers may accept a deal with Bush that would allow closed-door testimony as long as it's transcribed and under oath.

``We, hopefully, can work out a compromise,'' Schumer said in an interview. ``I can understand why he wouldn't want it in public even though there are good arguments why it should be in public. There are no good arguments not to have an oath and a transcript.''

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2A1E9x4XBtw&refer=home

Stop playing these coy little games to demostrate to the Press and the American people how reasonable you are, and how you really aren't going on a witch hunt.


Just issue the goddamn subpoenas.

Just do it.