The Bring it on-er did it, and is anyone surprised? The cretin in chief has announced that he intends to violate the constitution again.
Nope, Congress, you don't get the testimony, or documents, you need for the president's oversight. The wall is going up to protect the criminals from prosecution, leaving very little choice for the congress in doing its job.
President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from former White House aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers.
It offered once more to make the pair available for private, off-the-record interviews on any role the White House might have played in the firings of several U.S. attorneys.
In a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary panels, White House counsel Fred Fielding insisted that Bush was acting in good faith and refused lawmakers' demand that the president explain the basis for invoking the privilege.
The latest move in the separation of powers fight between the legislative and executive branches came as members of Congress began returning from their Fourth of July recess. An atmosphere of high tension accompanied the resumption of work as a fight also loomed there between majority Democrats and some key Republicans and Bush over his Iraq war policy.
The law will have to be carried out by the legislative branch, since the executive branch has violated its oath to uphold and defend the constitution.
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Law-and-Order Electorate
It's very clear by now that any member of the Bush-Cheney administration is, by definition, a witness to criminal activity, if not a conspirator or a participant. Any current or former member of the administration who refuses to testify is concealing criminal activity.
It doesn't matter what the boss/prince/role model/object of affection has to say on the matter. Everybody should be required to testify. We're the victims. They're the criminals. They can speak up and distinguish themselves from the guilty pack, or they can demonstrate their complicity by their silence.
"Sun slated to appear in East"
"President Defies Law"...
But don't let's say "President" with Bush, eh? Let's reserve that word for Constitutional officers...
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Worse Than Watergate
Had really, really hoped that things wouldn't come to this, that John Dean was wrong, that somewhere along the way there was a wall of separation between Bush and the rest of them, that they had the good sense to keep him at a far enough remove to be at least plausibly free of criminal taint.
Apparently not. Even if he was legally clean before he is now neck-deep in obstruction of justice, no if, ands or buts about it. It is clear now that impeachment will be the only responsible course, the only means by which to reign in a criminal enterprise that has infected the entire Executive branch and is rampaging out of control. Sigh. I really, really didn’t want it to be so.
All those who want to say "I told you so" feel free.
This is going to be such an awful mess.