Conyers On Rove: "We'll Hold Him In Contempt"

Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: "We're closing in on Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass."

Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn't, said Conyers, "We'll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We'd hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested."

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Comments

[geobushono]

09:18 AM on 05/21/2008

OK JOHN & Huffpo, this PIVOTAL story is now 6 days old and there has been one comment in 24 hours...............It is time to either put it back into the Headlines, or just bury it as I suspect Congress has done.

[Ramirez]

10:20 PM on 05/20/2008

Conyers talks some of the best game on Capitol Hill.

[geobushono]

09:45 AM on 05/20/2008

this story is a week old.........and still no action.
all hat, no cattle.

[betz55]

10:56 PM on 05/19/2008

I believe the correct headline should be - "Someone's go to kick his fat a** " !

[indc]

04:08 PM on 05/19/2008

Conyers is always talking about what he says he is about to do, but never seems to go about doing anything about anything.... all bark, no bite, big talk, little or no action... he is very, very tiresome and becomes ever more unbelievable...

[research]

04:19 PM on 05/19/2008

agreed, Conyers: I love what you say, now please just shut up and do it!

Impeach!

[ThePublicRecord]

03:49 PM on 05/19/2008

http://www.pubrecord.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=8

McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'
By Jason Leopold
The Public Record

May 19, 2008

Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron Corp. manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001.

Clearing the way for that California price gouging, Gramm, as a powerful Texas senator in 2000, slipped an Enron-backed provision into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic platforms.

[Pookie2112]

03:17 PM on 05/19/2008

Sure, Conyers, sure Congress will hold the Pillsbury dough boy in contempt. Just like Congress was going to bring the troops home ... stop funding Monkey Boy's failure in Iraq ... I'll believe it when I see the Pillsbury dough boy being escorted in handcuffs by U.S. marshalls.

[SaulGoode]

03:11 PM on 05/19/2008

Conyers is a complete embarrassemnt. Remember the hearings he held on his own in the basement of Congress...with no authority in order to try to nab Rove in the Wilson-Plame non-scandal scandal?

What a clown.

Check out his wife, Detroit city council person, being destroyed in a debate by 6th grade girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzXy4hljac

[cruisepuppy7452a]

02:08 PM on 05/19/2008

Unless Rove is lying again, he isn't elligible for the protections of the white house. He is a civil servant. This means, yes, he can be tried as a citizen, forced to stand trial as a hostile witness. Bush can't pardon him, without indighting himself. Its simple math. The man is a crimminal, the worst kind who hides behind loopholes to prevent prosecution. There are only so many loopholes he can use. At some point the noose tightens and he either sings like a cannary or goes to jail. That is how conyers must play this.

[JohnTalbutt]

01:22 PM on 05/19/2008

Never seen so many trolls in such high agitation.

Most people want those who have violated the law and Constitution held accountable. This includes most Republicans. Congress member Conyers, with his great respect for due process, is a good man for the American people to have on their side. I would not give much credence to those who attack his integrity and courage.

[FlowerGirl]

12:46 PM on 05/19/2008

I, for one, aam tired of talk. Do it! Now!!
When we start putting such creeps in jail, the world will smell a bit cleaner.

[thromulese]

12:42 PM on 05/19/2008

It’s simple. If he doesn’t obey the law he should be arrested like anyone else would be.

Last checked, ignoring a subpoena is a crime.

Arrest him. NOW.

Come on Conyers get a spine. Do the right thing.

It is long past time to hold these lying, incompetent, corrupt war criminals accountable for their crimes.

[260Parkway]

12:23 PM on 05/19/2008

Ooooh, let me do it! Although it wouldn't be his a$$ I'd kick it would be that gigantic forehead of his!

[tlcutter]

11:02 AM on 05/19/2008

Conyers is a bufoon. He is a disgrace to the seat he holds. Only he could perform so poorly and still be there.

[shadow322]

10:24 AM on 05/19/2008

Wining Republicans!! Aren't they proud of where their party took this nation over the last eight years? We are a nation of laws and when laws are broken, it is the responsibility of the people to find out who, how and why.