Tick… Tick… Tick… Paging Jack Bauer…
If this story in the Wash Post this morning is true, the FBI and DOJ may have a humdinger of a public corruption case operating against Congress right now.
You might need to register to read that. In short, anonymous federal law enforcement sources stated to the Post that Alberto Gonzales, Robert Mueller and Paul McNulty (the DAG, or Deputy Attorney General) all threatened to resign if President Bush orders the Jefferson papers returned to Congress. That’s a Saturday Night Massacre level-threat, over the WH reluctance to push a case relating to a #Democratic# member of Congress. If you found that puzzling, you weren’t the only one.
It seems to me that were this an ordinary corruption case, they wouldn’t threaten such draconian action. I am with Insty, who thinks that the Feebs may have stumbled into public corruption on a scale that… that is grand enough that even Republicans are running scared and willing to jump to the defense of William Jefferson. My liberal friends insist that it’s a Republican culture of corruption, my Republican friends insist it’s a Democratic Culture of Corruption, and my conservative and libertarian friends tend to agree with me that it’s a centralized government culture of corruption. I guess we’ll know more within a couple months, and if the corruption is widespread and bi-partisan, you can expect to see a voter revolt this fall.
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The way I see it, having never missed an election I wasn't physically able to make (missed an election only because my absentee ballot came to me too late), if I decide to not show up at the election ballot... Then I figure hundreds of thousands of conservatives will have also decided not to.
Congress has proven itself to be too corrupt to care about their own constitutents. They only care about what gives them increasingly more control over the American People and thus more power for them.
Not to mention, crippling congress isn't exactly a bad thing. a few years without these guys tooting their own horns, and people realizing "you know? The world didn't end, maybe we don't need all this insane legislation every year." And that includes all the onmibus packages.
This seems to apply equally to the Dhimmicrats as well as the RINO's!
This is about immigration. No Bush loyalist would threaten Bush with disloyalty, even ex post facto. Gonzales, with Bush's approval, is trying to beat up Hastert to pass that immigration monstrosity.
Unfortunately, Hastert handed them the stick, by being wrong on the Debate Clause and tin-eared.
Hastert is correct however to be concerned about any future President like say, the Maoist/Methodist She-Bitch From Hell, who might send over an FBI Director Craig Livingstone to paw through legislators' desks--much like Conyers wanted to paw through Cheney's Energy files.
Belive me, I share your frustrations. But I'd note that 32 Republican senators voted against this pig, and 22 voted for it. In the House, almost all Republicans voted for the enforcement bill. It is Democrats who were almost unanimous in both houses. There is a difference between the parties.
Let me urge your readers to write their Housemembers. This Senate bill is so bad, I can't even describe all the Beltway badness contained in it. Really; take some time this weekend, sit down and write your congressman to stop this disgusting sell-out of the American people. Or sentence your children and grand-children to a country you won't even recognize.
Advisor: Sir, the peasants are revolting.
King: You said it, they stink on ice.
However, this is a nation that is supposed to be "of, for and by the people" so I'm relatively literate, and I can voice my problem with this idiotic argument that there was ever some congressional immunity of investigation, this isn't even prosecution, this is investigation.
Anways.
One of the references about the nature of law, was the use of "common law" and in many states, and in fact at the federal level, there were many references to english, law, and all that jazz in order to automaticaly assume a said nature of law, until the congress got around to defining one for itself.
One of those common laws, and though I can't recall a specific mention of it within the congress is one of the highest favors in all of the concept of western democracy. It is often said that the birth of democracy, as a real form of governance, is enshrined the magna carte.
But I'm still wondering why Denny-Boy got so flipped out in the first place?