Despite Karl Rove's concerns that his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee could become a "show trial," the deal he cut assures that his testimony, at least initially, will be conducted in private. John Conyers promises to get to the bottom of Rove's role in the US Attorneys scandal, but will Bush's Brain be asked about the outing of Valerie Plame? The prosecution of Don Siegelman? His cozy relationship with Jack Abramoff? The Rove deal allows Obama to sidestep weighing in on Bush's very broad claims of executive privilege. White House Counsel Greg Craig says Obama is "very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened," but doesn't want to "do anything that would... weaken the institution of the presidency." After reading the chilling secret Bush memos released this week, the idea of a less unbridled executive branch doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
Behind close doors? Too late!
What he has done was build this up so he can hide from the Public, allowing him private testimony is a terrible example to set, this sends a bad message to all Congress calls before them.
ENOUGH!
you are another reason women should rule the world and Rove is another reason men should not.
Happy International Women's Day 2009:
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/03/happy-international-womens-day-2009.html
Anyone interested in this matter MUST read Chris Floyd's amazing article on this weekend's CounterPunch on line edition, "Tangled up In Karl "on the multiple ties that Craig and his law firm have with Rove, Cheney and other members of that criminal organized known as the Bush White House.
Craig had NO BUSINESS becoming involved in the Rove matter, and an attorney for one of the whistle blowers on the Alabama case has demanded that he recuse himself from the matter. Its unbelievable. Washington is such a slimy swamp.
When the Senate hearings about a truth commission were held, the Republicans said that the mechanisms exist in the Judiciary to deal with the problems cited. Well, lets get to it! We citizens must demand, in the press, the streets, and in communications to our representatives that all crimes committed under the Bush Administration be exposed, prosecuted, and punished in order to restore America to its Constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law.
We allowed eight years of fear to squelch free speech and watched as our country faded from the world stage as a beacon of hope. The young voters who placed faith in Obama to restore that leadership must not let up now that he is in office. Those of us old enough to have lived through the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the Reagan, Gingritch right wing turn must offer our experience and lessons learned to help them.
is exactly what they did to Clinton. The release of the secret memos, which are very
damning is a little suspicious, and makes me wonder if Obama and Holder are letting
public revulsion build to where the public is demanding an investigation, and the only
place the republicans can find sympathy is in the dictionary, between two other choice
words. I find it hard to believe that a constitutional lawyer, like Obama, would want it
swept under the carpet.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.... Bush's Brain wants to be sure he doesn't find himself embroiled in a "show trial" and according to White Hous counsel Craig, President Obama is "sympathetic' to those who seek the truth, but doesn't want to do anything that would weaken the presidency?
Please, Please, Please..if you get the chance, let those in power including the President know that what may seem to "protect the office of the president", upon Second Glance, "may weaken the republic".
Have a great week,
Vince
You cannot be an effective President if you don't look back!
There is evidence of crimes committed by the Bush administration and even Barack Omama
needs to know what they are!
When the Business Plot, an attempt to engineer an armed coup against the US, was undertaken by Prescott Bush and corporate America Roosevelt failed to hold them accountable and I am certain that failure along with the other scandals the Bush's were involved in directly contributed to the current situation. (Google Business Plot).
Where is Smedly Butler when we need him?
Rove is no patriot....
overthrow FDR. Over the last number of years, with the connivance of Lee Hamilton, we
gave Reagan a pass on the October Surprise, and let Bush Sr. off the hook for perjury on
both the October Surprise and the Iran-Contra affair. I'm afraid all it did was encourage the
republicans to think they could get away with the criminality that Bush-Cheney exhibited.
Unlike McCain, General Smedley Butler was a true American hero, while McCain was
simply a POW who always forgets to mention the other guests of the Hanoi Hilton.
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
Reagan we have been establishing an unholy alliance between corporate America and our
government. What most people fail to realize, is that this is the exact definition of fascism. The
secret memos that were released last week, make this abundantly clear.