Democrats Are Going To Have To Rough Bush Up A Little

   It now looks as if George Bush and the Democrats are going to go a few rounds and if things go as planned, Bush will be getting his ass handed to him!

   AP

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer   March 20,2007

WASHINGTON - A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.

Democrats' response to his proposal was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides.

"Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability," said Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bush, in a late-afternoon statement at the White House, said, "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants. ... I have proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse."

Bush said his White House counsel, Fred Fielding, told lawmakers they could interview presidential counselor Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and their deputies — but only on the president's terms: in private, "without the need for an oath" and without a transcript.

   No transcript so that the Bush Crime Family members have no record of their remarks for later use against them?

 

Bush said he would aggressively fight in court any attempt to subpoena White House aides.

"If the staff of a president operated in constant fear of being hauled before various committees to discuss internal deliberations, the president would not receive candid advice and the American people would be ill-served," he said. "I'm sorry the situation has gotten to where it's got, but that's Washington, D.C., for you. You know there's a lot of politics in this town."

  Candid advice? Did I read that one right? If Bush has actually listened to any advice from anyone and the Iraq mess is one of the fiascos that came from that advice, the Bush advisors should be fired and so should Bush being being dumb enough to listen to them! I'm sorry, I forgot that he is dumb enough! What was I thinking?

 

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