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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:40 PM Original message |
For Quite Some Time Now We've Wanted A Constitutional Showdown. Well Here We Go. Buckle Up Tight, |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. But don't forget about the 4th Branch. |
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PreacherCasey (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Indeed. The media is the frontline in this war. eom |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. Andrew Sullivan on KO said that the GOP is all but dead |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. As Plaid Adder said the other day, most Congress critters are lawyers |
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mloutre (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. good point about that. they'll circle the wagons against the anti-lawyer actors. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. How sad that, despite ruined schools, devastated army, flooded city, broken budget... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. And far more Democrats than Republicans are lawyers, too. |
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Kool Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 12:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
35. I agree. |
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Grandrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. Works for me. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. My current Watergate relativity factor is about 100. |
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Trekologer (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. It may parallel |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Bring It On |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. I agree and this is my kind of ride. :) |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 08:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Let's Just Hope The Outrage Goes In The Right Direction. :o) |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 08:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It's the prelude to a game of "chicken" on a grand scale. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. OK Corral, here we come. I'm completely on board. |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 12:16 AM Response to Reply #10 |
34. Hah! Perfect. "OK Corral". I'm in AZ & my grandson's name is Wyatt. Bring it on. BRING IT ON. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Maybe some of us will never find victory in our local battles against |
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heatstreak (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. kick - good stuff |
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mloutre (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. yup. deja vu all over again. 34 years later, specifically. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. could be, but I'm betting it ends with a whimper not a bang |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. You're saying we're expecting a late Fitzmas, but we'll only get April Fitzool's Day? |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 09:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. something like that |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Go to thinkprogress.org Clinton staffers testified to Congress many tiumes. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:07 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. right and Clinton also invoked executive privilege several times |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. The history of executive privilege law? |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. here's a history written by the CRS in 1999 |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:43 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Can't Argue With A Thing You Said. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:49 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. agreed -- the political equation is the key equation |
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ProgressiveFool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 11:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Respectfully, I don't agree |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 11:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I don't think the Democrats have overreached either |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
23. I don't know if Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia care a whit about the public |
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sampsonblk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
30. kick - good stuff |
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WHAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-20-07 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
32. It depends, what do you mean by "the public"...? |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 12:01 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Subpoenas going out on Wed and Thursday, House and Senate. |
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understandinglife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
36. "We need to make sure that's us." For sure. For the sake of ALL HUMANITY. |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 10:59 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I Can't Help But Think That The Precedent That Will Be Set By Him Getting His Way Would Be |
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