Now we are seeing oversight in the House and the Senate. With the Democrats in the majority, investigations have started. While the Republicans were in control, they just rubber-stamped everything Bush and Rove wanted, without questioning anything. Did this administration want billions of dollars of cash to hand out in Iraq? The GOP allowed it. Did this administration know about the conditions at Walter Reed? The Republicans covered it up. When this administration wanted to protect oil companies, banks, drug companies, the Republicans in the House and the Senate complied. Now the Democrats are discovering all the corruption and getting to work to clean things up. Thank you!
>Yesterday, I watched silly Sen. Inhofe, make a fool of himself while former Vice President Al Gore was testifying about global warming and climate change. Inhofe was rude, disrespectful, and idiotic. I am so glad Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer reminded Inhofe he was no longer in control of the committee. I wonder if Inhofe believes in gravity.
>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers has been very busy. Conyers, known as the patron saint of the Stephanie Miller Show, has threatened to use his power of subpoena. Go for it!
>Think Progress has remarks written by Tony Snow about President Clinton in 1998 concerning executive privilege:
....On 3/29/98, Snow published an op-ed titled, “Executive Privilege is a Dodge”:
Interesting, huh? Looks like Tony Snow is a flip-flopper!Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.
Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.
One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public’s faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold — the rule of law.
>The e-mails sent by the White House to the Senate and House of Representatives concerning the firing of the U.S. Attorneys, has a gap of 18 days. Those of us who lived through Watergate, recall the 18 minute gap in the the Nixon tapes. We know that Nixon was hiding something but what is this administration trying to hide?
