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Washington, DC is full of our blowhard Congressmen freshly back from their Independence Day holiday vacation and they appear headed with a confrontation with idiot Bush over his claims of executive privilege when it comes to the Bush Crime Family having to hand over documents and other data to the Congress concerning investigations. It doesn't help Bush that the Congress is pissed off because he commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby while everyone was out for summer break.
Republicans and Democrats are both questioning Bush and his flawed Iraq war policy with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, saying today that there has been a steady erosion of support for the president's policy in Congress because of the "tremendous loss of life among our troops" (June) and "the failure of the Iraqi government to pursue the political reforms that are necessary to quell the sectarian violence."
This should be an interesting week with the Democrats and the White House with a few investigations maybe heading towards contempt of court citations and possibly federal court if the investigators and the crooks in the White House can't come to any compromise over the requested documents and records.
_Monday is the deadline for the White House to explain why Bush is refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for e-mails and other documents on his aides' involvement in the firings of eight federal prosecutors last winter. The White House is not expected to comply with the deadline.
_In a pair of hearings Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will look at Bush's commutation last week of Libby's prison sentence for obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hear from former White House political director Sara Taylor about the prosecutor firings, according to Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
_The next day, the House panel is expected to turn to the prosecutor firings and has scheduled testimony from former White House Counsel Harriet Miers. It's unclear whether she will appear. Source
On Iraq:
"The president argued that we needed to undertake the surge in order to give the Iraq government the time, the space to pursue the political reforms," Collins said on CNN. "That hasn't happened. Instead it has been our troops who are making the sacrifice, who are bearing the burden, and that's why you see a real change in support for the Iraq strategy."
In Baghdad Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned that a quick American troop withdrawal could lead to civil war and the collapse of the Iraqi state.
It would seem that the Iraqi Foreign Minister is eating the same bullshit that Bush and others have been feeding the American people for the past 4 years. Living in the state of delusion must be nice at times! Maybe a real human being needs to go visit the Foreign Minister and take his rose colored glasses off of his face since they seem to be blinding him to the civil war going on around him.
Anyway, the Democrats need to forget about playing nice with the White House and contempt of Congress citations and just gather up the Sargent at Arms, the Feds, and the military if necessary, and go drag those in contempt out of their offices and lock their sorry asses up until the hearings and trials are completed. Problem solved!
These gutless Democrats had better start worrying about the battle that they will have to do with the American voter if they do not get off of their butts and do the job that we hired them to do!
