Invoking history, Bush wants court out of subpoena fight

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_go_pr_wh/congress_contempt

If there's one thing Congress and the Bush administration can agree on, it's that they've got a fight of historic proportions on their hands.

The House Judiciary Committee is demanding documents and testimony from President Bush's closest advisers about the firing of federal prosecutors.

When the White House refused, the Democrat-led committee went to court. Lawyers called the president's actions the most expansive view of presidential authority since Watergate.

Late Friday night, the Bush administration responded with court documents of its own, similarly steeped in history. Lawyers called the lawsuit unprecedented. Citing George Washington and Grover Cleveland, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, they said these types of clashes get resolved without going to court.

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1. They'll be subpoenaed for the rest of their criminal lives

If repukes has any sense of self-preservation or any ability to look into the future, they'd surrender every piece of evidence that is asked for right now and beg for leniency. But, repukes have absolutely no vision except for their criminal reactions to their criminal behaviors.