Dem Effort To Hold WH Aides In Contempt Builds Steam

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House Democratic leaders have begun privately surveying their members to determine their support for a criminal contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for shunning congressional subpoenas in the U.S. attorney investigation.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said the contempt motion could be brought to the House floor "as early as next week," but Democratic leadership aides cautioned that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not yet made any final decision on a vote. And one House aide close to the situaton said a vote was "more likely" in two weeks.

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- loki I'm a Fan of loki permalink
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Building steam??? The democrats are as phony as the Fema new conference. Pelosi and Reid are 2 of the biggest liars under Bush and Cheney. And Im super pissed at them for what they have done since we voted them into the majority. Pissed, and not just a little at the lying whore and back stabbing pimp. I have never voted republican, and Im sure as hell not going to trust democrats again. And now they expect us to believe they are going to do something, especially on something like this when on the real important things , like the Iraq invasion and wiretap they give Bush everything he ask for and even things he didnt ask for. Give me a break.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:19 AM on 10/27/2007

"building steam"......

Wow...sounds like the Dems are moving ahead with 19th century Railroad technology in their "rapid" pursuit of justice.....

Maybe, just maybe, we can get things going a bit faster? Considering that we're in the 21st century, you think they might move a bit faster.....

at this rate Bush will be safely retired in Nuevo Crawford in Paraguay safely sitting out WWIII blazing in the Middle East before anyone actually finds out about all of the laws he's broken......

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 AM on 10/27/2007

NOT NECESSARILY SOME SERIOUS ONES CAN BE READ AT:

http://360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1


AND EVEN A WHOLE LOT MORE CAN BE READ AT:

http://blog.myspace.com/tom_heneghan_intel = A

MUST READ ABOUT A LOT OF VERY INTERESTING & VERY

THOUGHT-PROVOKING IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATIONS GOING ON

NOT REPORTED ON AT ALL BY ANY MEDIA CHANNELS...

DEPTH

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:22 AM on 10/27/2007



Jim Carey in Liar, Liar -

"I hold myself in contempt!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:20 PM on 10/26/2007

criminal contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for shunning congressional subpoenas in the U.S. attorney investigation ...

Pelosi's decision - all criminal contempt resolutions having to do with the White House and/or any elected Republican is OFF THE TABLE
and those who have even suggested this will be formally censured and publicly rebuked.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:50 PM on 10/26/2007

nancy please go home and play grandmother. you are sitting back women 50 years with your incompetence as a leader.

hillary will finish the job when she bombs iran and it backfires on her like bush jr.

at least we americans have jeb waiting in the wings. love those clintons and bushs.

no one else is qualifed to run america like those two names. after jeb we can have the bush twins.

americans smartest people on earth just ask one.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:10 PM on 10/26/2007

I'd ask you rescorcher, but you are certainly not one of the sharpest knife in the drawer.

If you're not an American, why are you here, and if you are American, why are you here?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 PM on 10/26/2007
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THis is pretty funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:07 PM on 10/26/2007

"Democratic leadership aides cautioned that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not yet made any final decision on a vote."

Prediction: Speaker Nancy Pelosi will proclaim that the "final decision on a vote is OFF THE TABLE".

Pelosi must go.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:32 PM on 10/26/2007

Impeach any and all of repukeicans that they can and hang the rest.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:59 PM on 10/26/2007

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I hear nothing, I see nothing ... Hogan's Heroes

Should the President Have the Authority to Extend Executive Privileges to Senior Aides? ---> http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=801
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 10/26/2007

The President is the "decider" ,and he will decide to extend his Executive Privileges until he has a full dictatorship . Pelosi and her Democrats won't notice because they didn't see "amnesty for illegals" in the deal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:11 PM on 10/26/2007
- Dap I'm a Fan of Dap permalink
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News Flash...

Dems order break-away rulers from Hollywood special effects store to slap the wrists of wrong doers in the Bu$h administration.

Senator Reid says it will play well to the chumps Oops... audience.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 10/26/2007
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Yes the chumps that believe there is a two-party system when in fact there is one.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 PM on 10/26/2007

Did we grow a spine?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:15 PM on 10/26/2007
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Yeah,


RIGHT.

They won't do shit, and we all know this...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:11 PM on 10/26/2007
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Of course the White House should be challenged.

America is disgusted with all the GOP's enabling.

After BushCo destroys the GOP, the Democrats

will have a Super Majority. Then, a realignment

can occur with elitist cons verses the populists.

Populism is the cure for the cancer of fascism.

ST2P

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:00 PM on 10/26/2007
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Honest, patriotic Libertarians should join with

social egalitarians, creating corporate laws

that level the playing field for small business

and rational socialism for public institutions.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 PM on 10/26/2007

Oh boy, more hollow threatening action from Pelosi and gang. Chasing Bolton & Miers is supposed to appease us in some way? Taking impeachment "off the table" and funding the illegal war in Iraq are just as traitorous as the actions of The Traitor in Chief & his vice-Criminal.

How is it possible that House & Senate Dems have absolutely NO CLUE how pissed off we are?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:53 AM on 10/26/2007

>How is it possible that House & Senate Dems have absolutely NO CLUE how pissed off we are?<

Maybe they know, but they just don't care. For some reason, our duly elected representatives seem to feel perfectly free to pursue their political and other ambitions while we, the people, having been forced to live in what amounts to a Christian madrassah for the past 6 1/2 years, are expected to sit back and let them work in "mysterious ways."





    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 PM on 10/26/2007
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Yes. Poor, poor harriet.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:10 PM on 10/26/2007

Go for it JOKER!!!!!!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 AM on 10/26/2007
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Go away crustybutt

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:03 PM on 10/26/2007

Bush is the Joker in the old school Batman photoshop job. Crusty, always wrong and proud of it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:40 PM on 10/26/2007

CrestedButte: Still stupid after all these years.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:43 PM on 10/26/2007
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Gee democrats, why don't you just THREATEN to do it, like you have done on every other issue?

We didn't elect you to complain and then fold on every violation of the constitution and law. We expected you to live up to moral liberal values, not just talk the talk. THAT is what got you elected, why are you turning your back on America?

Is it just politics? Do you think that folding will help you get re-elected?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:04 AM on 10/26/2007
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