If you are busy and intent on spreading the lie that Democrats aren't DOING anything . . .

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06/24/07

Showdown imminent between Bush, Congress

White House faces subpoenas to turn over information.

By Michael Doyle / Bee Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and the Democratic-led Congress are on a collision course over White House secrets, a sensitive conflict that is as old as the country itself.

Bush has invoked his war on terrorism to claim unprecedented and virtually unlimited executive powers, unchecked by Congress, the courts and at times even the Constitution.

He has declared that he is free to interpret or ignore laws as he chooses. He has refused to hand over his aides' e-mails to congressional investigators and has declined to let administration officials testify to congressional committees. He nearly provoked a mutiny in his Justice Department by asserting a right to spy on Americans without first getting warrants.

With Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee action approving subpoenas related to Bush's warrantless wiretap program, congressional Democrats now have hit the administration with more than two dozen subpoenas.

Unless some compromise is reached, the courts are the next stop in what probably will become a constitutional crisis.

As part of their investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, the House and Senate judiciary committees want the testimony of former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former deputy political director Sara Taylor. They've been called to testify in mid-July.

The committees also seek thousands of documents.

Among other things, they demand: "Agreements, contracts, letters or other correspondence, facsimile or e-mail transmissions, telephone messages, logs or records, memoranda, notes, diaries, graphs, formulas, models, bulletins, computer printouts, transcripts, analyses, returns."

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How is it benefiting the accountability folks claim they want to see to go around knocking every move Congress makes (as many are doing here)?

The most pernicious lie is that our Democrats aren't doing anything about the malfeasance of the Bush administration just because they haven't moved to impeachment.

WHERE WILL YOUR FOCUS BE AS OUR DEMOCRATS CARRY OUT THESE OTHER IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF THEIR OVERSIGHT?

Will you be supporting these actions which could very well lead to prosecutions? Will you join them in their demands for compliance to the flurry of subpoenas from our able investigative committees directed at the White House?

When the shit flew at the Clinton administration there wasn't one republican or conservative operator who didn't promote and defend each and every move Congress made against the White House. This time around, with Bush in the hot seat, many seem satisfied to just proclaim the efforts of our Democrats as ineffectual from the start; no support, just sour grapes because they haven't chosen to adopt some half-assed swing and miss.

But there are MANY confrontations brewing which threaten MANY quarters of this administration. Anyone who tells you that our Democrats are somehow enabling Bush, or letting him off the hook, just because they haven't yet completed these investigations, has no damn idea what they are talking about.

Let's get behind the actions of our Democrats already underway with the full force of our advocacy to effect the accountability we all seek.