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*** INHERENT CONTEMPT UNDER CONSIDERATION!***

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*** INHERENT CONTEMPT UNDER CONSIDERATION!***
I got a message from Waxman in my inbox this morning. He is talking about bringing impeachment charges over the matter of "Executive Privilege" AND
(and this is where I fell off my chair). .He is bringing up the possibility of charging former White House Council Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten with

INHERENT CONTEMPT

and sending the House Sergeant at Arms to bring Miers and Bolton in.

(This means he doesn't NEED the Justice Department to bring them in. He can have them brought in himself!)

This is a change, kids.. and a pretty big one. The House power of Inherent Contempt hasn't been used since 1934
from Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress
Procedures
Following the refusal of a witness to produce documents or to testify, the Committee is entitled to report a resolution of contempt to its parent chamber. A Committee may also cite a person for contempt but not immediately report the resolution to the floor. In the case of subcommittees, they report the resolution of contempt to the full Committee, which then has the option of rejecting it, accepting it but not reporting it to the floor, or accepting it and reporting it to the floor of the chamber for action. On the floor of the House or the Senate, the reported resolution is considered privileged and, if the resolution of contempt is passed, the chamber has several options to enforce its mandate.


Inherent contempt
Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation.)

Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned (under Supreme Court rulings), Congress created a statutory process in 1857. While Congress retains its "inherent contempt" authority and may exercise it at any time, this inherent contempt process was last used by the Senate in 1934, in a Senate investigation of airlines and the U.S. Postmaster. After a one-week trial on the Senate floor (presided over by the Vice-President of the United States, acting as Senate President), William P. MacCracken, a lawyer and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics who had allowed clients to rip up subpoenaed documents, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.


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   Rec'd! Bring on the Sergeant At Arms! This I'd love to see! nt  babylonsister   Mar-09-08 08:17 AM   #1 
   Frogmarch!  Usrename   Mar-09-08 11:25 AM   #19 
   No, not a dungeon,  yankeeinlouisiana   Mar-09-08 04:23 PM   #65 
      do they have the metal toilet bolted to the wall with no privacy? That's what counts  yurbud   Mar-10-08 03:26 AM   #130 
   Read again slowly!  rucognizant   Mar-09-08 12:32 PM   #27 
   This is the House.. . . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 12:33 PM   #28 
   The article says  MonkeyFunk   Mar-09-08 02:31 PM   #40 
   I'd love to debate this  laylah   Mar-09-08 03:34 PM   #50 
   I would love to bash you and insult your intelligence for saying that.  IronLionZion   Mar-09-08 09:42 PM   #98 
   I'll believe it when I see it.  Dr.Phool   Mar-09-08 05:10 PM   #68 
      I agree...utterly disappointing.  femrap   Mar-09-08 06:19 PM   #77 
      I'm not holding my breath either.  Golden Raisin   Mar-09-08 07:02 PM   #84 
   Considered? Just Do It!  KharmaTrain   Mar-09-08 08:24 AM   #2 
   Can someone please tell Waxman that Bolten and Miers are using STEROIDS?  jgraz   Mar-09-08 08:26 AM   #4 
      Lol. The sad insane truth. That's gonna be junior's great big 8 year legacy of "reform".  chill_wind   Mar-09-08 03:19 PM   #47 
      I think I may do that myself! He's my Congressman, after all!  calimary   Mar-09-08 06:28 PM   #80 
      (wexler). . .n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:39 PM   #114 
   *** INCIPIENT BACKBONE UNDER CONSIDERATION!***  jgraz   Mar-09-08 08:25 AM   #3 
   You are funny as hell. Steroids.  civildisoBDence   Mar-09-08 02:31 PM   #39 
      You and me both. I don't think I could quite manage 70%  jgraz   Mar-10-08 02:26 AM   #126 
   Less talk and more action.  democrank   Mar-09-08 08:28 AM   #5 
   Collars felt, scruff of the neck, and frogmarched, bum's-rush style, to the Chamber..!  KCabotDullesMarxIII   Mar-09-08 04:09 PM   #59 
   "bringing up the possibilty"? n /t  CGowen   Mar-09-08 08:29 AM   #6 
   Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!  Buck Turgidson   Mar-09-08 08:30 AM   #7 
   Let's go Henry!  malaise   Mar-09-08 08:31 AM   #8 
   (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:40 PM   #115 
   OK, elections are only 8 mos away-Let's do it!.Do Something! n/t  dmosh42   Mar-09-08 09:03 AM   #9 
   what is there to consider?....DO IT  spanone   Mar-09-08 09:04 AM   #10 
   The clock is working against him  SoCalDem   Mar-09-08 09:04 AM   #11 
   I've heard it discussed HERE. . I have never hear Waxman  annabanana   Mar-09-08 12:15 PM   #23 
   I read the same thing around a month ago. That Waxman said he is considering it.  robinlynne   Mar-09-08 12:49 PM   #31 
   Jesus!. . Not YOU TOO!. . WEXLER!!1!!11!. . . .  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:41 PM   #116 
   Bush's term ending  MonkeyFunk   Mar-09-08 03:17 PM   #46 
   It shouldn;t , but it WILL..  SoCalDem   Mar-09-08 03:25 PM   #49 
      *co can still be impeached and punished for war crimes after they leave  rosesaylavee   Mar-09-08 03:40 PM   #55 
      You Right my Friend  FATCATs   Mar-09-08 08:51 PM   #96 
      you forgot...  frogcycle   Mar-09-08 09:47 PM   #100 
   Your sig really got me....thx for the  femrap   Mar-09-08 06:23 PM   #78 
   Yep-off to Paraguay where they have an army to protect them from prosecution for their crimes...  TheGoldenRule   Mar-09-08 07:11 PM   #86 
   YeeHaa! K&R  trof   Mar-09-08 09:06 AM   #12 
   K & R  DeeDeeNY   Mar-09-08 09:14 AM   #13 
   Oh, Henry, just get off your ass and do it!  Jesuswasntafascist   Mar-09-08 10:33 AM   #14 
   Well, go f#@king get them, then! What are we waiting for?  Ilsa   Mar-09-08 10:53 AM   #15 
   Excellent idea, have the  vpilot   Mar-09-08 11:09 AM   #17 
   I'm getting a chubby just thinking about it.  alfredo   Mar-09-08 11:02 AM   #16 
   Sadly, that's all it is, imho. "Thinking Off"  TahitiNut   Mar-09-08 12:24 PM   #25 
      We'll see. We need to demand they act.  alfredo   Mar-09-08 03:36 PM   #52 
   Big Ass Kick & R  bluesmail   Mar-09-08 11:16 AM   #18 
   Thanks for sharing that, annabanana, but the time has come when you have to wonder  8_year_nightmare   Mar-09-08 11:42 AM   #20 
   That is too true. I think I deleted the same email w/o reading  kristopher   Mar-09-08 04:12 PM   #60 
   Waxman on impeachment: not til 09--09--why bother  librechik   Mar-09-08 11:44 AM   #21 
   A person need not be in offfice to be impeached -- PLUS...  johnfunk   Mar-09-08 12:22 PM   #24 
      exactly--but they are pretending they don't know about that  librechik   Mar-09-08 12:29 PM   #26 
   Talking means nothing. Actions mean everything.  notsodumbhillbilly   Mar-09-08 12:09 PM   #22 
   I may be wrong but....  A wise Man   Mar-09-08 12:36 PM   #29 
   Yes. Yes they can.. . . . . . .n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 12:47 PM   #30 
      Then maybe, just maybe  A wise Man   Mar-09-08 12:51 PM   #33 
      Everything is pardonable, except impeachment. So charging anyone in this  wiggs   Mar-09-08 05:19 PM   #69 
         No, Inherent contempt is not pardonable.  Lasher   Mar-10-08 02:04 AM   #124 
            Agree. My post was in response to a post about prosecuting these guys after  wiggs   Mar-10-08 02:28 PM   #133 
               Cool.  Lasher   Mar-10-08 03:26 PM   #134 
      But they won't.  emilyg   Mar-10-08 02:54 AM   #128 
   that would be . . . very interesting!  leftofthedial   Mar-09-08 12:49 PM   #32 
   Well, if he considers this long enough they'll be gone anyway. They've  acmavm   Mar-09-08 12:57 PM   #34 
   ... and then Nancy Pelosi will march over to the White House, grab Josh by the scruff of the neck...  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-09-08 12:59 PM   #35 
   I've hadmy hopes dashed so many times by Henery and John...  hootinholler   Mar-09-08 02:23 PM   #36 
   Dear Henry...  RobertDevereaux   Mar-09-08 02:27 PM   #37 
   (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:42 PM   #117 
   k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r  Swamp Rat   Mar-09-08 02:29 PM   #38 
   hee hee... Hiya Swampy!. . . . . .n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 02:54 PM   #43 
   Don't talk about it and publicize a "maybe". Do it!  BushDespiser12   Mar-09-08 02:35 PM   #41 
   "Talkin' ain't doin" n/t  indypaul   Mar-09-08 02:54 PM   #42 
   K,R,& called my rep to say SUPPORT THIS! nt  tbyg52   Mar-09-08 03:00 PM   #44 
   had my prefs showing GD-P. just turned them off and saw THIS!!!  nashville_brook   Mar-09-08 03:15 PM   #45 
   Within 48 business hours, no doubt...  tachyon   Mar-09-08 03:20 PM   #48 
   OMFG! If this happened, I would watch it till my eyes wore out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  hisownpetard   Mar-09-08 03:35 PM   #51 
   If they don't do it now, * will pardon them before leaving office and nothing can be done then. rec  williesgirl   Mar-09-08 03:38 PM   #53 
   I don't think they can be pardoned for a contempt charge.. . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 04:15 PM   #61 
   Somebody wake me up when it actually happens.  Warren Stupidity   Mar-09-08 03:39 PM   #54 
   remember we were calling for that a fucking year ago? inherent contempt.  orleans   Mar-09-08 03:41 PM   #56 
   My letter...  BushDespiser12   Mar-09-08 03:52 PM   #57 
   I will volunteer my services to bring Bolton and Miers to justice  sasquatch   Mar-09-08 04:07 PM   #58 
   just do it already  xxqqqzme   Mar-09-08 04:17 PM   #62 
   Do It, Waxman!  TML   Mar-09-08 04:17 PM   #63 
   A great idea!  f the letter   Mar-09-08 04:19 PM   #64 
   I Hear The Cubs Have A Good Chance At The Pennant This Year  DemocratInSoCal   Mar-09-08 04:43 PM   #66 
   THIS is why they've been taking so much time  knight_of_the_star   Mar-09-08 04:53 PM   #67 
   At long last!  yellerpup   Mar-09-08 05:27 PM   #70 
   Believe it when I see it.  utopiansecretagent   Mar-09-08 05:31 PM   #71 
   Thank God! It is about time!  MasonJar   Mar-09-08 05:32 PM   #72 
   Excellent, I hope he does more than just consider it ! n/t  AntiFascist   Mar-09-08 05:33 PM   #73 
   Waxman needs to get serious & set this in motion, now.  Disturbed   Mar-09-08 05:42 PM   #75 
   That will be a GREAT day!  ClayZ   Mar-09-08 05:38 PM   #74 
   "bringing up the possibility"!?!?! Just do it god dammit.  bluerum   Mar-09-08 06:04 PM   #76 
   Emails from Congressional Dems no longer impress me in the least.  kestrel91316   Mar-09-08 06:23 PM   #79 
   Anti-rioting e-mail.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Mar-09-08 06:32 PM   #81 
   WILL. NOT. HAPPEN.  GregD   Mar-09-08 06:49 PM   #82 
   Too late, Henry. Go back to baseball.  BuyingThyme   Mar-09-08 07:02 PM   #83 
   talk is cheap Waxman!  wildbilln864   Mar-09-08 07:11 PM   #85 
   WEXLER. . . . jeez. . . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:36 PM   #112 
      Jeez indeed! What do you mean?  wildbilln864   Mar-11-08 12:41 PM   #140 
   Yeah, I've heard that before.  progressoid   Mar-09-08 07:33 PM   #87 
   It's about darn time...  CubicleGuy   Mar-09-08 07:42 PM   #88 
   WOOT n/t  L0oniX   Mar-09-08 07:43 PM   #89 
   Can you give us an excerpt of your message from Wexler? nt  Truth2Tell   Mar-09-08 07:48 PM   #90 
   Here's the whole thing  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:19 PM   #105 
   Talk is cheap, Henry....  rateyes   Mar-09-08 08:17 PM   #91 
   (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:20 PM   #106 
      Your OP says Waxman.  Truth2Tell   Mar-10-08 01:04 AM   #119 
   Inherent contempt should be pursued against Mukasey.  Wizard777   Mar-09-08 08:20 PM   #92 
   WARNING,  bluesmail   Mar-09-08 08:23 PM   #93 
   ?. . .. . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:21 PM   #108 
      under consideration inherent contempt is a warning  bluesmail   Mar-10-08 08:17 PM   #138 
   The time for Consideration is passed.  SalmonChantedEvening   Mar-09-08 08:24 PM   #94 
   Put him on national TV with electrodes attached to his nuts.  pattmarty   Mar-09-08 08:28 PM   #95 
   I'm afraid to get my hopes up.  think4yourself   Mar-09-08 08:51 PM   #97 
   I really like the sound of that: 'Inherent Contempt.'  Octafish   Mar-09-08 09:46 PM   #99 
   Yada yada yada....more hot air and puffery from Waxman  ooglymoogly   Mar-09-08 09:50 PM   #101 
   wexler wexler wexler wexlerwexler. . NOT waxman. . . good lord. . n/t  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:38 PM   #113 
      well I'll be confused....why did you say you got a message from Waxman  ooglymoogly   Mar-09-08 11:02 PM   #118 
   I'll believe it when I see this.  alyce douglas   Mar-09-08 09:53 PM   #102 
   yes i'm sure this will happen  tripitaka   Mar-09-08 10:03 PM   #103 
   you are young here  annabanana   Mar-09-08 10:23 PM   #109 
   What about Bloody Red Rover?  lonestarnot   Mar-09-08 10:17 PM   #104 
   The Bush Junta will declare civil war and add Congress to the no-fly terrorist list  L. Coyote   Mar-09-08 10:20 PM   #107 
   DO IT!!! n/t  4dsc   Mar-09-08 10:23 PM   #110 
   The rethugs are ALWAYS climbing up on their soapbox and decrying we must live by the 'rule of law'..  Double T   Mar-09-08 10:29 PM   #111 
   political harassment but fun  Ztarbod   Mar-10-08 01:17 AM   #120 
   Miss the forest for the trees much?  blackops   Mar-10-08 04:05 AM   #131 
   Yeah, right.  Rosemary2205   Mar-10-08 01:20 AM   #121 
   let me guess, he was asking for money.  impeachdubya   Mar-10-08 01:34 AM   #122 
   Yes, Inherent Contempt and Impeachment. Go to it Mr. Waxman!  Missouri Blue   Mar-10-08 01:47 AM   #123 
   Forgive me if I don't hold my breath  davidthegnome   Mar-10-08 02:17 AM   #125 
   You'd think that something this important would be in the news  kma3346   Mar-10-08 02:34 AM   #127 
   Wax on!  yurbud   Mar-10-08 03:25 AM   #129 
   Round 'Em Up, and Proscicute Them  RoccoR5955   Mar-10-08 07:33 AM   #132 
   I'd like to see the original message from Waxman  AnnCatherine   Mar-10-08 03:48 PM   #135 
   Send the Nancy Disaster to cuff Miers and Bolton and drag them in.  The Stranger   Mar-10-08 03:52 PM   #136 
   before I see this on snopes.com  AnnCatherine   Mar-10-08 03:56 PM   #137 
   this is what needed to be done along time ago  lovuian   Mar-10-08 09:09 PM   #139 
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 08:17 AM
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1. Rec'd! Bring on the Sergeant At Arms! This I'd love to see! nt
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 11:25 AM
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19. Frogmarch!
Do they have a dungeon under the Capital to hold 'em in?
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yankeeinlouisiana Donating Member (984 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:23 PM
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65. No, not a dungeon,
but they do have a jail cell!

:bounce:
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 03:26 AM
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130. do they have the metal toilet bolted to the wall with no privacy? That's what counts
besides an amorous roommate.
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rucognizant (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:32 PM
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27. Read again slowly!
THE VICE PRESIDENT SERVING AS THE SENATE PRESIDENT! presiding over the procedings..............
How far would this go with CHENEY at the helm????????
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 12:33 PM
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28. This is the House.. . . . n/t
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:31 PM
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40. The article says
when it last happened, the VP presided. That's because it was the Senate that brought the charges.

This is the House, not the Senate. Cheney would have no role.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:34 PM
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50. I'd love to debate this
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 03:35 PM by laylah
with you; however, no profile does not warm fuzzies give. Welcome :hi:

edited to add this response was for rucognizant
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IronLionZion (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:42 PM
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98. I would love to bash you and insult your intelligence for saying that.
But you're lucky I'm not that type of guy. Have fun on DU. :hi:


Hopefully some progressive from the house will preside.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:10 PM
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68. I'll believe it when I see it.
Waxman and Conyers have been a continuing disappointment.
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 06:19 PM
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77. I agree...utterly disappointing.
And Harriet Meirs will make a sympathetic victim. I think Waxman and Conyers should pick on Rove...or even Rice. But Harriet? Geez, I felt sorry for her when she was nominated for SCOTUS and withdrew.

The Dems will look like BULLIES....pick on someone your own size, Conyers!
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Golden Raisin (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:02 PM
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84. I'm not holding my breath either.
When the train is stopped in the station the motorman needs to stop announcing the next stop over and over on the PA system and just move the f#!@ing train.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:24 AM
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2. Considered? Just Do It!
Enough wasting time...we all know the score here. This regime will delay, stonewall and obstruct. They're playing out the clock and it's long overdue for Waxman and Conyers to call their bluff. The only way they'll get this regime's attention and any answers is by tossing a few of these criminals into the Capitol cellar and let them sort out their "executive privilidge" there. The founders wrote it into the Constitution for a reason...and if there was ever a time to use it, it's now!
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:26 AM
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4. Can someone please tell Waxman that Bolten and Miers are using STEROIDS?
That should get his attention.
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 03:19 PM
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47. Lol. The sad insane truth. That's gonna be junior's great big 8 year legacy of "reform".Updated at 2:53 AM
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 06:28 PM
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80. I think I may do that myself! He's my Congressman, after all!Updated at 12:47 PM
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 06:29 PM by calimary
And I never hesitate to declare myself a loyal constituent whenever I call either his local or his DC office.

That's a GREAT one!

:toast:
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:39 PM
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114. (wexler). . .n/t
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:25 AM
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3. *** INCIPIENT BACKBONE UNDER CONSIDERATION!***
I'll believe in when I see it.
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civildisoBDence (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:31 PM
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39. You are funny as hell. Steroids.
I just hope you won't have to be 70% behind Hillary any time soon!

NewsprismBlog
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 02:26 AM
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126. You and me both. I don't think I could quite manage 70%
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democrank Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:28 AM
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5. Less talk and more action.
March `em in.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:09 PM
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59. Collars felt, scruff of the neck, and frogmarched, bum's-rush style, to the Chamber..!Updated at 6:56 PM
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 04:09 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
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CGowen (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:29 AM
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6. "bringing up the possibilty"? n /t
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Buck Turgidson (418 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:30 AM
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7. Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
n/t
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:31 AM
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8. Let's go Henry!
K & R
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:40 PM
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115. (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t
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dmosh42 (883 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:03 AM
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9. OK, elections are only 8 mos away-Let's do it!.Do Something! n/t
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 09:04 AM
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10. what is there to consider?....DO IT
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:04 AM
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11. The clock is working against him
I heard this tactic discussed MONTHS ago.. Bush is running out the clock and he's just goling to stall and stall and stall.. and then he'll smirk, wave & poof! he's gone..
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 12:15 PM
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23. I've heard it discussed HERE. . I have never hear Waxman
mention it seriously before.
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:49 PM
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31. I read the same thing around a month ago. That Waxman said he is considering it.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:41 PM
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116. Jesus!. . Not YOU TOO!. . WEXLER!!1!!11!. . . .
:blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:17 PM
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46. Bush's term ending
would have no bearing on this.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:25 PM
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49. It shouldn;t , but it WILL..
He will sidle off into the sunset, and congress will want to :
get down to business
put it behind them
look to the future
let bygones be bygones
not want to waste tax dollars

any number of excuses..

They always do this.. goes waaaaay back..

We WILL be seeing the lower-level Bush folks again.. count on it.. Look into Iran Contra and notice all the criminals who should have done jail time..and yet.they were Bush's trusted cronies for the last 8 years..

We let them off the hook and they came back with a vengeance..like they will again..
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:40 PM
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55. *co can still be impeached and punished for war crimes after they leave
the WH. It doesn't have to be this year. We have the rest of their lives to bring them to justice if it takes that long.

I hope our side is working out a deal about extracting them from Paraguay too.
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FATCATs (144 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:51 PM
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96. You Right my Friend
This is EXACTLY what will occur :(
So why do we work ourselves into a frenzy discussing it ?

Because even we can dream, Cant we :)
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:47 PM
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100. you forgot...
turn the page
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 06:23 PM
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78. Your sig really got me....thx for the
chuckle...glad I wasn't :spray:
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:11 PM
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86. Yep-off to Paraguay where they have an army to protect them from prosecution for their crimes...Updated at 12:02 AM
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 07:12 PM by TheGoldenRule
:grr:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:06 AM
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12. YeeHaa! K&R
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DeeDeeNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:14 AM
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13. K & R
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:33 AM
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14. Oh, Henry, just get off your ass and do it!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:53 AM
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15. Well, go f#@king get them, then! What are we waiting for?
And waterboard them while you're at it, I hear it's "okay" to do this rght now.
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 11:09 AM
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17. Excellent idea, have the
Sargent at Arms arrest them, perp walk them onto the House floor, tell them that if they refuse to talk they will be subject to an enhanced interrogation technique, i.e., water-boarding, now that Booo$h thinks its a valuable tool and legal.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 11:02 AM
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16. I'm getting a chubby just thinking about it.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:24 PM
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25. Sadly, that's all it is, imho. "Thinking Off"
:shrug: Congress would have to become vertebrates before they develop cojones.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:36 PM
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52. We'll see. We need to demand they act.
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 11:16 AM
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18. Big Ass Kick & R
I'm so tired of this flip-flopping
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 11:42 AM
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20. Thanks for sharing that, annabanana, but the time has come when you have to wonder
how seriously do our representatives take us. They've been sending out notices of serious action like this to us for years, letting us get fired up with hope of accountability & justice, & then they drop the matter. Perhaps the point is to evoke letters of support, but haven't we been writing & calling in on our own accord?

I'm way past the rhetoric; action is the only thing that will put some spark in me.
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kristopher Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 04:12 PM
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60. That is too true. I think I deleted the same email w/o reading
Stopped reading after 1st line with conclusion of SOSDD.

Now I wish I'd read it.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 11:44 AM
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21. Waxman on impeachment: not til 09--09--why bother
our BEST GUY

I can't tell you how angry I am about this statement from Waxman debating Bobby Kennedy Jr. last week. They have been stringing us along since 2006. We'll get a Scooter wrist slap out of this achingly slow drag ass process and then it will be just let bygones be bygones.
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johnfunk (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:22 PM
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24. A person need not be in offfice to be impeached -- PLUS...
... if the Senate finds them guilty they are BANNED from public office at the federal level.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 12:29 PM
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26. exactly--but they are pretending they don't know about that
and they won't. They are counting on the ignorance of the publioc and the general apathy, and rightly so. I am completely disgusted with these peopl. Even our heroes talk out of both sides of their mouths.
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:09 PM
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22. Talking means nothing. Actions mean everything.
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A wise Man (790 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:36 PM
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29. I may be wrong but....
can't congress charge bush and this administration with "TREASON", even after they leave his miserable office?????
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 12:47 PM
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30. Yes. Yes they can.. . . . . . .n/t
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A wise Man (790 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:51 PM
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33. Then maybe, just maybe
Nancy and the full congress may have this in mind. Lord I hope so, because there are going to be a lot of rethug congresspersons and senators leaving office following this disasterous president!!!!!
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:19 PM
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69. Everything is pardonable, except impeachment. So charging anyone in this
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 05:22 PM by wiggs
administration with a crime, before or after the term expires, will be problematic. GW will pardon a whole government full of people before leaving, in advance. And if not, at least two of the three candidates could conceivably pardon previous administration miscreants.

But, regardless, I really like the inherent contempt strategy (should have done it 6 months ago) because it may actually lead to testimony on issues. No other approach was going to yield testimony.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 02:04 AM
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124. No, Inherent contempt is not pardonable.
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the inherent contempt power is uniquely characterized by not requiring the cooperation or assistance of either the executive or judicial branches:

While it is true that the President can immunize persons from criminal prosecution, it does not appear that he has authority to immunize a witness from congressional inherent contempt proceeding. . . . A finding of inherent contempt against an executive branch official does not appear to be subject to the President’s Pardon power. . . .

Although the contemnor can seek judicial review by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the scope of such review may be relatively limited, compared to the plenary review accorded by the courts in cases of conviction under the criminal contempt statute.


Statutory contempt, in contrast with inherent contempt, provides for judicial trial of the contemnor by a U. S. Attorney rather than at the bar of the Senate or House. There are two kinds of statutory contempt power: criminal and civil. The criminal procedure is available to either House of Congress, while the civil procedure is available only to the Senate.

http://www.acsblog.org/separation-of-powers-crs-explain...

Criminal contempt is pardonable but civil contempt is not. An example of civil contempt would be the case of Judith Miller, who was imprisoned until she agreed to cooperate. This point is academic, however, since as noted above, the civil contempt procedure is not available to the House.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 02:28 PM
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133. Agree. My post was in response to a post about prosecuting these guys after
they leave office.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 03:26 PM
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134. Cool.
Didn't mean to come across picky but this a very important point in the scenario. But I don't think it matters except as an item of interest because I would be shocked if our Congress all of a sudden grew a spine. And I'm pretty sure after this year our Democratic president (if we have one) and Democratic members of Congress will end up falling all over ourselves to forget & forgive and 'Why can't we all just get along?' yada yada yada.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 02:54 AM
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128. But they won't.
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:49 PM
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32. that would be . . . very interesting!
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:57 PM
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34. Well, if he considers this long enough they'll be gone anyway. They've
been pretty damn good at dragging this shit out.

I'm not getting all wound up over this. Heard it before.
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 12:59 PM
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35. ... and then Nancy Pelosi will march over to the White House, grab Josh by the scruff of the neck...
... Oh, that's right - Nancy Pelosi.

Never mind. :(
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 02:23 PM
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36. I've hadmy hopes dashed so many times by Henery and John...
I just can't allow myself any joy over this until I see them in cuffs.

-Hoot
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RobertDevereaux Donating Member (612 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:27 PM
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37. Dear Henry...
...fucking DO it, already!
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:42 PM
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117. (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:29 PM
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38. k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r k&r
:patriot: :woohoo: :applause: :bounce:

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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 02:54 PM
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43. hee hee... Hiya Swampy!. . . . . .n/t
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:35 PM
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41. Don't talk about it and publicize a "maybe". Do it!
No more platitudes and ifs. Let's start the ball rolling and see if we can't return to a nation of laws.
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indypaul Donating Member (710 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 02:54 PM
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42. "Talkin' ain't doin" n/t
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:00 PM
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44. K,R,& called my rep to say SUPPORT THIS! nt
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:15 PM
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45. had my prefs showing GD-P. just turned them off and saw THIS!!!
man, the important stuff that is drowned out by the horserace and infighting is terrifying. big K and R. best news i've seen in years.
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tachyon (520 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:20 PM
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48. Within 48 business hours, no doubt...
:eyes:
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:35 PM
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51. OMFG! If this happened, I would watch it till my eyes wore out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 03:35 PM by hisownpetard
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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williesgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:38 PM
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53. If they don't do it now, * will pardon them before leaving office and nothing can be done then. rec
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 04:15 PM
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61. I don't think they can be pardoned for a contempt charge.. . . n/t
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:39 PM
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54. Somebody wake me up when it actually happens.
I have given up on this congress, despite the efforts of a few good men and women in congress to do the right thing, the majority appear to have no interest in any such risky behavior.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:41 PM
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56. remember we were calling for that a fucking year ago? inherent contempt.
ABOUT TIME isn't it?
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 03:52 PM
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57. My letter...
Congressman Waxman is currently considering the charge of Inherent Contempt for Harriet Meirs and Josh Bolton. I urge you to vigorously uphold the rule of law and pledge to support Representative Waxman in this measure.

We, as citizens, are charged with adhering to current laws. Why are government employees not held to the same standard?

The current mis-administration has no compunction with breaching its judicial obligations. And why should they? The Congressional oversight has uncovered many infractions, but does not impose the letter of the law in rectifying the situation.

Please support this measure and help return a semblance of Democracy back to this country.

Sincerely
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:07 PM
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58. I will volunteer my services to bring Bolton and Miers to justice
:evilgrin:
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 04:17 PM
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62. just do it already
I have grown old waiting for the democrats to do something - ANYTHING!
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TML (749 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:17 PM
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63. Do It, Waxman!
I would love to see this happen.
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f the letter (392 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:19 PM
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64. A great idea!
Hope it works.. can the justice dept override it?
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DemocratInSoCal (402 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:43 PM
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66. I Hear The Cubs Have A Good Chance At The Pennant This Year
I'll believe this when I actually see it.
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 04:53 PM
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67. THIS is why they've been taking so much time
Get public opinion on their side AND lay the legal foundation for such a move.
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yellerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:27 PM
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70. At long last!
Great News! :kick:
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:31 PM
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71. Believe it when I see it.
*yawn*
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:32 PM
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72. Thank God! It is about time!
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:33 PM
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73. Excellent, I hope he does more than just consider it ! n/t
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Disturbed (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 05:42 PM
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75. Waxman needs to get serious & set this in motion, now.
It is way past time for threats. Get it done!
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 05:38 PM
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74. That will be a GREAT day!
K and R
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 06:04 PM
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76. "bringing up the possibility"!?!?! Just do it god dammit.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 06:23 PM
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79. Emails from Congressional Dems no longer impress me in the least.
I'll believe they are taking action ONLY when I actually SEE some action.

Talk is cheap, and keeps the masses from rioting.
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 06:32 PM
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81. Anti-rioting e-mail.
Powerful stuff.

:)
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GregD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 06:49 PM
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82. WILL. NOT. HAPPEN.
Waxman was on AAR Ring of Fire Radio yesterday with Robert Kennedy Jr. Bobby just about had a conniption fit trying to convince the "mustache of justice" to do it as a civics lesson and Waxman stonewalled.

Don't get your hopes up. I don't think it will happen. As much as they soundly deserve it, and as much as the country needs it to happen, I just do not believe it will happen.
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:02 PM
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83. Too late, Henry. Go back to baseball.
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:11 PM
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85. talk is cheap Waxman!
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 07:12 PM by wildbilln864
I considered being a trillionair but decided against it, see. Freaking do it, don't talk about it! :grr: I bet he don't do shit. And by the way, Sibel Edmonds! When is he going to do anything regarding her and what she has to tell?
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:36 PM
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112. WEXLER. . . . jeez. . . . n/t
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-11-08 12:41 PM
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140. Jeez indeed! What do you mean?
Edited on Tue Mar-11-08 12:43 PM by wildbilln864
The OP says Waxman said "blah blah..."

Snip/
"I got a message from Waxman in my inbox this morning. He is talking about bringing impeachment charges over the matter of "Executive Privilege" AND
(and this is where I fell off my chair). .He is bringing up the possibility of charging former White House Council Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten with "
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:33 PM
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87. Yeah, I've heard that before.
The Waxman needs to just do it!

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CubicleGuy (210 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:42 PM
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88. It's about darn time...
... that the Sergeant at Arms was given something real and meaningful to do.

Do it!

Do it!

Do it!

Do it!

Do it!

Do it!

Do it!

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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:43 PM
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89. WOOT n/t
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 07:48 PM
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90. Can you give us an excerpt of your message from Wexler? nt
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:19 PM
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105. Here's the whole thing
Dear (annabanana)

Two weeks ago, the House took a bold step demanding accountability for the Bush/Cheney Administration by holding former White House Council Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten in Contempt of Congress for blatantly ignoring congressional subpoenas for over 8 months.

Though it was not a surprise, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, wrote a letter to the House of Representatives stating that he refuses to call a Grand Jury to enforce those contempt citations.

The Attorney General's letter, effectively claiming that members of the executive branch are immune from congressional subpoenas, calls for quick action.

Click HERE to watch my latest video discussing Mukasey's outrageous response.
http://wexlerforcongress.com/multimedia.asp?ItemID=239

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Judiciary Chairman Conyers have smartly decided to pursue a civil lawsuit to force Bolton and Miers to appear before Congress. We should pursue a lawsuit – but I think we can do even more.

While a court may order – months from now –that Miers and Bolten must appear before Congress, by then George Bush and Dick Cheney will have largely accomplished their goal of running out the clock on the investigation into this Administration's politicization of the Justice Department. Even a successful outcome in federal court might only mandate that they appear, at which time the witnesses are likely simply to continue their obfuscation by claiming executive privilege of the 5th Amendment in person.

The House of Representatives must re-establish its legitimate rights as a co-equal branch of government. Congress cannot allow its power to be summarily ignored and justice delayed.

The House was correct to hold these renegade White House officials in contempt, and much credit should be given to Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Conyers for pushing for that outcome. Now, we must go further: The House must immediately consider taking the following actions:


- Initiating impeachment hearings that would likely break through the reckless claims of executive privilege made by the Bush Administration.

- Approve a resolution that calls for an inherent contempt citation which would give the House Sergeant at Arms the power to bring Miers and Bolton before Congress.

As you may know, 17 of my colleagues, including four of my fellow members of the Judiciary Committee have joined my call for impeachment hearings.

This is not an issue between Democrats and Republicans. As members of Congress, we have an absolute duty to enforce the checks and balances prescribed by our Constitution.

We have ceded too much for too long, enabling George W. Bush to assume a unitary imperial Presidency. It is long past time to secure accountability for those who have, by all appearances, committed significant breaches of our laws and trust.

Mukasey's claims are simply the latest in a long line of outlandish legal arguments ranging from the idea that we can selectively cherry-pick from torture laws to the concept that the Vice President is no longer part of the Executive Branch (except, of course, when he needs to claim Executive Privilege).

Over the past months, I have received tens of thousands of emails and letters from you expressing your great support for my efforts. Your encouragement and activism on these causes are much appreciated. I continue to work hard on your behalf and hope you feel these updates are valuable.

With kind regards,

Congressman Robert Wexler


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rateyes (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:17 PM
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91. Talk is cheap, Henry....
DO IT!
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:20 PM
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106. (Robert. . . . Wexler). . . . n/t
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 10:20 PM by annabanana
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 01:04 AM
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119. Your OP says Waxman.
THAT would be big news. Nice to hear from Wexler, but it's not big news.
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:20 PM
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92. Inherent contempt should be pursued against Mukasey.
He should be held until the DOJ has completted work on the original Congressional Contempt Citation.
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 08:23 PM
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93. WARNING,
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:21 PM
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108. ?. . .. . n/t
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 08:17 PM
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138. under consideration inherent contempt is a warning
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:24 PM
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94. The time for Consideration is passed.
Please Mr. Waxman, charge these people now. Justice demands it.

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pattmarty (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:28 PM
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95. Put him on national TV with electrodes attached to his nuts.
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think4yourself (325 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 08:51 PM
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97. I'm afraid to get my hopes up.
n/t
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:46 PM
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99. I really like the sound of that: 'Inherent Contempt.'Updated at 12:21 PM
Bring in the whole treasonous lot of them, Waxman.

Then, it's "Next stop, Gitmo."

KR100
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 09:50 PM
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101. Yada yada yada....more hot air and puffery from WaxmanUpdated at 6:36 PM
Remember Sibel Edmonds. I think he'd rather grandstand on sports and hormones and other ridiculous tax wasting exercises about nothing. If past performance is any indication there will be nothing from this and that is a fact. He is trying in my opinion to rebuild his trashed reputation with his constituents after the sports fiasco which had no business whatsoever in congress.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:38 PM
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113. wexler wexler wexler wexlerwexler. . NOT waxman. . . good lord. . n/t
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 11:02 PM
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118. well I'll be confused....why did you say you got a message from WaxmanUpdated at 6:36 PM
Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 11:11 PM by ooglymoogly
I have great respect for Wexler and none for Waxman but your post appeared to me, as to many others, clearly about Waxman.

Your post;
I got a message from Waxman in my inbox this morning. He is talking about bringing impeachment charges over the matter of "Executive Privilege" AND
(and this is where I fell off my chair). .He is bringing up the possibility of charging former White House Council Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten with

So don't good lord! me. I did not get the letter.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 09:53 PM
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102. I'll believe it when I see this.
too many chances this Congress has had, and yet they have not stuck up for the Constitution or us.
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tripitaka (61 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:03 PM
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103. yes i'm sure this will happen
So much more important than seating Mich and Fla, this. I'm sure voters are reassured watching the Dems conduct themselves in this manner. I'm sure this is why Dems have been caving to Bush on everything, they were just eager to get to the point where they can really go after Bush. Yeah.

Seriously, some of you guys scare me. I mean it's nice to have ideals but at some point you're in Jonestown territory.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Mar-09-08 10:23 PM
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109. you are young here
read and learn
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:17 PM
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104. What about Bloody Red Rover?
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:20 PM
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107. The Bush Junta will declare civil war and add Congress to the no-fly terrorist list
you're grounded! :rofl:
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4dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:23 PM
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110. DO IT!!! n/t
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Double T (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Mar-09-08 10:29 PM
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111. The rethugs are ALWAYS climbing up on their soapbox and decrying we must live by the 'rule of law'..
except when their GD miserable asses are involved.
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Ztarbod (82 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 01:17 AM
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120. political harassment but fun
The reason for bring Harriet and Josh before Congress is to determine if the firing of politically appointed attorneys was politically motivated. Well duh, of course it was. Pursuing this issue is just stupid - but it is fun.
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OnyxCollie Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 04:05 AM
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131. Miss the forest for the trees much?
The political motivations behind the firing of those U.S. attorneys included blocking investigations of Jack Abramoff and Dusty Foggo, refusal to prosecute Democrats in swing states, and election theft, among other illegal activities.

Do about five minutes of research and see if you can advance past the "They serve at the pleasure of the President." meme.
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 01:20 AM
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121. Yeah, right.
When hell freezes over.

(hope I'm wrong - but I've lost faith)
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 01:34 AM
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122. let me guess, he was asking for money.
They're always "just about" to do something. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Missouri Blue (84 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 01:47 AM
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123. Yes, Inherent Contempt and Impeachment. Go to it Mr. Waxman!
With 10 months left of the most deplorable, awful presidency ever, it would be fitting and proper for it to end in impeachment for unconstitutional abuse of power, and lying over 900 times on the record in order to invade Iraq.

After Bush is out of office, we need to scrub the White House out with bleach.

Not to mention I'd be happy because I bet a conservative that Bush would be impeached. He said it would never, ever happen.

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davidthegnome Donating Member (442 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 02:17 AM
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125. Forgive me if I don't hold my breath
The only way those criminals will ever be brought to justice is if we storm the stinking castle.

Why are we trying to stomp on evil ants when we have a giant, evil gorilla smirking at us? Pah.
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kma3346 (409 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 02:34 AM
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127. You'd think that something this important would be in the news
I just Googled "inherent contempt" in Google news and got only six hits, and none from any U.S. newspapers or TV news sources. God, you'd think something like this would be everywhere. It just reinforces how much the corporate media has a stranglehold on the news that we're allowed to know about.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Mar-10-08 03:25 AM
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129. Wax on!
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RoccoR5955 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 07:33 AM
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132. Round 'Em Up, and Proscicute Them
:kick:
Bring them to justice, because justice delayed, is justice denied.
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AnnCatherine (1 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 03:48 PM
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135. I'd like to see the original message from Waxman
Could you forward the Waxman message to
annckeirns@hotmail.com?  I'd like to see the original,
please.  I'm hoping this isn't something I'll see on
snopes.com in the near future.  I didn't find anything like
this on his website.
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The Stranger (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 03:52 PM
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136. Send the Nancy Disaster to cuff Miers and Bolton and drag them in.
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AnnCatherine (1 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 03:56 PM
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137. before I see this on snopes.com
Could your send the message you got from Waxman in your inbox to justvegan@mac.com and annckeirns@hotmail.com ? We'd like to see the original, please.
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 09:09 PM
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139. this is what needed to be done along time ago
So waxman realizes he needs to challenge the whitehouse and the Justice Department
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