Snow Flashback: ‘I’m Not Going To Tell Congress What They Can And Can’t Do’
Snow Flashback: ‘I’m Not Going To Tell Congress What They Can And Can’t Do’
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow appeared on the morning talk shows on all the major networks and repeated his talking point that Congress “has no oversight responsibility over the White House.” A sampling of his statements:
There’s another principle, which is Congress doesn’t have the legislative — I mean oversight authority over the White House. [CNN, 3/22/07]
First, the White House is under no compulsion to do anything. The legislative branch doesn’t have oversight. [MSNBC, 3/22/07]
Congress doesn’t have any legitimate oversight and responsibilities to the White House. [Fox, 3/22/07]
But back when he was asked whether the conservative-led 109th Congress should be investigating members of the Executive Branch, he was singing a different tune:
QUESTION: What is the president’s opinion of a request by Republican leaders in the House to launch an investigation of Sandy Berger’s involvement in the removal of classified documents from the National Archives?
SNOW: There were questions last week, about investigations involving Republican members. Members of Congress have their own oversight obligations. They may proceed as they wish. They’re a separate and co-equal branch of government and I’m not going to tell them what they can and can’t do. [Briefing, 10/16/06]
Watch a compilation of Snow’s talking point:
More at TPM Muckraker, Crooks & Liars, and the Carpetbagger Report.
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Tony should have lunch with Scott McClellan, who was a willing guest on The Daily Show to lament how the loyal Bushies lied to him - after which he made a huge liar out of himself in front of the American public…
From his demeanor, I’m guessing Scott is more likely than ever before to be voting Democratic in 2008.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 pmChecks and balances?!?!?! HELLO!!! EARTH TO SNOW!!!
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pmThese guys will be looked on with disdain by future generations - thanks to the internet and the trail it leaves behind. I don’t think that the powers that be fully comprehend that we can check what they’re saying.
I wonder if they realize how obvious their lack of integrity is.
I feel no sympathy.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pmWho cares what Snow says or believes. The real and only question is what is the law. In this case, the administration has the right to fire any attorney they want anytime they want. Furthermore, the administration has the right to deny the congress in this matter. While I feel the adminstration is not correct, they are still completely legal. Congress should stop with the show trial crap that costs us tons of money and use their time to change the laws that allow Bush to do this in the first place. That I approve of 100%.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 pmSnow is going to be a busy man the next few months now that the Bush Administration is being held to a higher standard of honesty and accountability. I have to admit he has been tasked with the tough job of convincing Amerca that Bush aides don’t need to testify under oath, in public, and with transcripts. Everyone else does, but they don’t.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 pmWelcome to the deck of the SS LyingBastard Tony.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 pmSoon you’ll be gutted and filleted like the flopping piscatorial putz you truly are.
Tony Snowjob is a totally irrevelant tool for Bush.
Obstruction of justice is a crime that the supreme
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:20 pmcourt is to decide.
I have said before that Tony Snow is being consistent - a consistent media whore, that is!
Tony has ALWAYS done what his pimps have demanded of him. He shows his bare back side whenever it is required. He just has more pimps in this current, corrupt administration, so he never seems sure as to who to show it to. Of, course, WE always get a view!
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:22 pmi saw this on TODAY, upon waking up this morning…
at least it got the blood flowing faster… earlier…
but i can’t believer they let him get away with that statement…
the nerve! … imagine that…
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:24 pm.
I wonder which Constitution he is getting that crap from ?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:24 pmWhile I feel the adminstration is not correct, they are still completely legal.
Comment by Roger_Roger — March 22, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
Thanks, R2, for your profound legal scholarship. Also for thoroughly investigating and determining that ant potential charges of Obstruction of Justice are completely unfounded. Can you enlighten us with the basis for your findings? Or is that “classified”?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 pmThat damn documentation. Any wonder why they don’t want transcripts?
Who you gonna believe, Roger_Roger or your lying eyes?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 pmWait, was Berger an advisor to the current President? Executive Privilege applies to the office of President. Also, while Congress has oversight over executive agencies, it has no oversight over the President other than the specific checks and balances in the Constitution. What is so hard to understand about that?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 pmPRESS SECRETARY, n. A White House official who lies when the president is unable to do it for himself. (Source: The Devil’s Dictionaries–Bierce & Bufe)
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:27 pmRoger_Roger:
Yer’ full o’ shit.
“In this case, the administration has the right to fire any attorney they want anytime they want.”
Maybe so, but if in doing so, they obstruct justice, or more importantly, if the reason they do so is to obstruct justice, Congress has the right to drag their asses on the carpet for it. Subpoena, impeach, indict, try, convict, imprison. That’s how it goes. Can you get this fact through your thick freekin’ skull?
Congressional action is the specific and only remedy to a criminal presidency. Got it?
I can’t see what you stand for. You know as well as the most liberal among us that these guys are criminals and are in the process of destroying our country, yet you cheer.
What a dick you are.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:29 pmThat damn documentation. Any wonder why they don’t want transcripts?
Comment by Tuber — March 22, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
and why they want to eliminat NET NEUTRALITY…
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:30 pm…
Congress can impeach the President — they cannot subpoena him.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:30 pmNasty Trolls defending a media whore - ain’t that just like ‘em?
Pitiful.
UNDER THE BRIDGE, NASTY TROLLS!
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 pmJake:
It’s a criminal enterprise. What’s so hard to understand about that?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 pmIn other words, “We’ll tell you what the law for us is today. But be forewarned, it will change tomorrow - or the next time I open my mouth.”
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:33 pmI saw Harry on CBS interviewing Snow-job this morning and it was just too precious, I swear to God. Harry didn’t let Tony talk over him or have the last word, either. Tony exasperatedly shrugged his shoulders, heaved a great sigh and rolled his deep-set eyes, like a cheap, two-bit actress. What a nice way to start off the day, seeing a putz like Tony having a bad one. -heh, heh-
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:34 pmJake - this issue isn’t whether or not congress has the right of oversight - the issue is Snow’s flip flopping as it suits his agenda.
Go get some fresh air once in a while eh?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pmHow ironic that today’s neocons are all about situational ethics. I think it’s because they are not really conservatives, but corporatists. Corporate culture is amoral and so are corporatists.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pmI think I am starting to get it. Only godless, decadent democratic presidents need oversight – not godfearing, honest, hardworking republicans. Sort of like only heathen brown people need waterboarding to get the truth out of them. Fine white christians like Karl Rove automatically spout the truth with every breath. N9ow if we could only get them say this out loud.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:38 pmTony Snobjob is absolutely irrelevant.But his deceptions, lies and manipulations of the truth are relevant.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:44 pmCpnJustice:
You mean like it is O.K. for Democratic Presidents to fire U.S. Attorneys for political reasons, but it’s not O.K. for Republican Presidents?
Namtillaku:
You’ll have to point out the flip-flop, then, because I think it is fairly consistent to say Congress has oversight over the National Archives (even when it comes to former NSA) but no oversight other than specified in the U.S. Constitution over the President and his White House staff.
Dreary Urbanite:
Even “godless, decadent democratic presidents” have the same Constitutional protections I’ve mentioned, i.e. impeachment and not Congressional subpoenas against Bill Clinton.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:45 pmUrbanite, as Stephan Colbert says, “people tell me I’m white and I tend to believe them because policemen call me ’sir.’”
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:46 pmCongress can impeach the President — they cannot subpoena him.
Comment by Jake — March 22, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
Actually Congress can call for a special prosecutor, and they can subpoena the President. Or do you forget Ken Starr already?
So you’re just Jake’ing off and play word games - *sshole.
Don’t forget, that it wasn’t believed the President had to sit before a grand jury before the Clinton fiasco. So your *belief* about what can and can’t be done is just your *opinion*.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:48 pmAnyone not on the “Ignore List”?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:49 pmSnowjob is paid to lie/spin/blame he just doesn’t do a good job. Now if Nixon has used the Bush policy there would have been no Watergate hearings. Clinton was to be impeached as he didn’t object to Congress asking for all his staff and him to testifiy in public form. I wonder what’s Bush trying to hide. Gonzales is usiing kids to teach them to lie and saying lying under oath is ok. Sounds alot like Fingers Foley approach to abusing kids while holding office. Now we see that all the talk about Republicans being religious and born again is really a front to do Satan’s work. To hear Bush tell it the American people should shut up and mind their own business. he is President and he doesn’t have to tell anybody and thing and he can commit crimes and steal when ever he wants and the public can’t do anything about it.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 pmYou mean like it is O.K. for Democratic Presidents to fire U.S. Attorneys for political reasons, but it’s not O.K. for Republican Presidents? Comment by Jake — March 22, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Strawman. You never established this *counselor*.
You’ll have to point out the flip-flop, then, because I think it is fairly consistent to say Congress has oversight over the National Archives (even when it comes to former NSA) but no oversight other than specified in the U.S. Constitution over the President and his White House staff. Comment by Jake — March 22, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
B*llsh*t. Would you care for me to cite you a copious amount of claims by prominent GOP officials that claimed the opposite when Clinton was in power?
Even “godless, decadent democratic presidents†have the same Constitutional protections I’ve mentioned, i.e. impeachment and not Congressional subpoenas against Bill Clinton. Comment by Jake — March 22, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
How exactly did that “subpoena” against Clinton happen again? Through Congress calling for a special investigator? We have more evidence of a *crime* today, than we ever did in Whitewater.
You’re an idiot Jake. Stop m*st*rb*ting to your own ignorance - it’s disgustingly obnoxious. And it just makes you look like a hypocrite.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pmHe basically just said that checks and balances don’t exist.
Damn, did he even take government in high school>?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pmAnyone not on the “Ignore List�
Comment by Jake — March 22, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
Get a life, and stop Jake’ing off to your fantasies here. Your GOP porn is just as disgusting as your hatred.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:51 pm#26,
Since you have been all over the threads today promoting murder, torture, rape, corruption, and you have absolutely no understanding of the Constitution, why would you expect anyone to listen to you?
In fact, I ask that the group please ignore the hatemonger “Jake”. I plan to.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 pmJake - reading comprehension has never been cited as a strong point of trolls, and you’re no exception.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:56 pmSnow has to the worst of the Bush Press Secretaries. By worst I mean funniest. By funniest I don’t mean funny ha-ha. I mean funny, ugh.
Off topic: Good home page on Huff Po right now. There is a story about GOP Rep saying that Iraq is as safe as Detroit or Chicago and right below it is the video of the UN Chief ducking behind the podium because they are being shelled.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:56 pm#34
Tuber,
Jake……Jake who?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 pmXbot:
In which civics class did you (mis)learn that Congress can subpoena the President of the United States?
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 pmI wish I cared about what this phony balony has to say. If this is our “official” connection to who’s on first, we are in serious trouble.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 pmJake……Jake who?
Comment by dlet —
That’s more like it. :)
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:58 pmCongress can impeach the President — they cannot subpoena him.
Comment by Jake
If a District court can supoena Clinton and force him to testify, Congress can as well.
Clinton’s advisors had to testify before Congress 47 times. Executive Privilige did not apply because the issues were not Military, diplomatic or National security secrets that were involved.
and for the crap you pulled in the Elizabeth Edwards thread:
Go to hell, you sorry excuse for a human being.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 pmYou are right, Tuber.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:00 pmJake is a POS, truly, and should be ignored.
Tony Snobjob is absolutely irrelevant.But his deceptions, lies and manipulations of the truth are relevant.
Comment by Hector Garcia — March 22, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
very well said.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:01 pmJake……Jake who?
Comment by dlet —
That’s more like it. :)
Comment by Zooey
Yeah I will ignore the sorry excuse of a person from now on also.
Firehead as well.
The crap in the Elizabeth Edwards thread had me seeing red.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pmJake……Jake who?
Comment by dlet —
If we ignore it, perhaps it will go away?
Hi, Zookeeper/Zooey! I posted something on Wayne’s behalf on today’s ThinkFast thread if you’re interested…I have to head home now to watch Keith.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:03 pmHe basically just said that checks and balances don’t exist.
Damn, did he even take government in high school>?
Comment by Xbot
Snowflake has selective memory problems. If this were a Democrat run administration, and he was still shilling for FOX, instead of the WH, he’d be having a coronary on the air about all this crap.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:03 pmOne hopeful aspect to all of this is that maybe now the whitehouse press “corpse” might finally grow a spine and really start challenging this deceiving press secretary.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:05 pmXbot,
The idiot on your case pontificated that a President could not be arrested.
He was proven wrong.
You are a most welcome addition and role model for other teens out there.
Thanks for your contributions.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm….someone please send the SPCA…..when my owner gets mad at the neighbor’s kids playing on his lawn he kicks me. He won’t confront his neighbors though because he is a weak and pathetic man…….yowwwllll….please send help……
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 pmOh crap, Jake is invoking The List ™.
Could this be rachel’s new persona? We haven’t heard from her in a while.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 pmSnow makes Stewart and Colbert look like funeral directers in the comedy department. Perhaps he can sign up with The Comedy Network and make real money!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 pmOh Sh*t, Spudge!
How would jake know about any ignore list since he was not here when rachel was?
Good pick-up.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:09 pmYour a lying fool tony!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:13 pmOnly difference, we won’t see the likes of a rebuttal on the national news channels.
Just like we won’t hear or see the likes of a story about imprisoning a nine year-old, hyjacked off an airliner in Porto Rico by american authority, and just released to the Canadian Gov.
sorry for the tangent.
Never disparage anyone as cruel to animals without proof. If Jake has a dog, acat or even a goldfish, I am sure that he treats it as a friend. Even W loves Barney - the Human race be damned.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 pmHow come toni can’t just make sense of the sceme of things?
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pmSnowjob’s behavior and mannerisms are growing increasinlgy creepy and bizarre. He’s coming off like a creepy version of an old time snake oil saleman. Have I used the word “creepy” enough to describe Snowjob? That’s because to me, he is a creep, and watching him in action gives me the creeps, heebee jeebees, makes my skin crawl.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pmCreepy Snow. A liar with the personality of a Funeral Home Directer.
Is it 2009 yet?
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:19 pmTwo days in a row he has contradicted his own words — amazing how the dance changes when the shoe is on the other foot.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:20 pmacat s/b a cat in my #54.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:20 pmI can’t take it anymore.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:20 pmOverthrow the Bush Mafia!!!……………
Congress can impeach the President — they cannot subpoena him.
Comment by Jake
That is next on the list dipshit…
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pmWaltTheMan:
We actually have a golden retriever.
Sachem515:
Not yet — just under two years — 22 months to be exact, before January 20, 2009.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 pmP.S. for anyone not on the “Ignore List” — has Pelosi put impeachment “back on the table” while I wasn’t looking? I thought she was still struggling to get the votes to even pass a measure that CONTINUES the war . . .
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:28 pmThe crap in the Elizabeth Edwards thread had me seeing red.
Comment by Wayne
I just finished reading all that crap. The trolls posting on a thread like that is despicable.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 pmThere has only been one other poster in the years I have been posting on this site that has invoked The List ™ I am going to start taking bets now.
I have 34 million electrons that I am willing to put up. Any takers?
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 pmSpudge,
That assh*le is not rachel. She’s been around a bit, though.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:40 pmUnder President Clinton there were about 1,000 subpoenas issued to his people. His aides testified before congress 47 times. There were 140 hours of testimony on Clinton’s Christmas card list.
We got eight solid years of Whitewater (in which the Clinton’s lost a few thousand dollars in a condo deal two and a half decades before he was president).
There was Travelgate, Filegate, and Nannygate (his appointee for AG did not pay social security taxes on her nanny two or three decades in the past).
We got three or four investigations into Vince Foster’s death—each one carried out by Clinton’s enemies and each one saying what the previous one said.
There was the Lincoln Bedroom Scandal. Now, all of a sudden, there is Separation of Powers. I cannot stand this much hypocricy.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 pmI’m not so sure, Zooey.
Jake was not here when the Ignore List came about.
Spudge - that’s a lot of negativity! ;)
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:52 pm#62 - Jake,
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pmWhile I have spared with you on occasion, I do not believe that anyone should be accused of cruelty to animals without proof. Even the KKK redneck that burns crosses on his black neighbors’ front lawns would still treat his hunting dogs with utmost respect - not to say that you fall into that category.
I wish your Golden Retriever a pleasant and long life.
My # 69, spared deserves two p’s.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 pmMy 70 (or whatever) p s/b r.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 pmI’m not so sure, Zooey.
Jake was not here when the Ignore List came about.
Comment by trueblue
I think it’s a coincidence.
If nothing else, rachel was on OUR side.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:14 pmYou guys are positive that rachel isn’t pretending to be a troll again?
Well, no matter who it is, they are really really stupid. That is why I think it is a put on. Nobody can really be that stupid, but then again, our trolls are always setting stupidity records.
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 pm# 67 How many of those were not under OATH?
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 pmThey have a ticket to L-I-E…. Thay have a ticket to Lie-Lie-Lie…
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 pmThey have a ticket to lie… And we don’t care….
My-people-don’t-care….
Thanks, WaltTheMan (I guess).
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:46 pmThey have a ticket to L–I–E… They have a ticket to Lie-Lie-Lie…
They have a ticket to L-I-E… And we don’t care….
My-people-don’t-care….My-people-don’t-care
Lies on top of Lies. My people don’t care!
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pmTony Snow = CUA!!!
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 pmAfter his stint as WH Propagandist is done…
…I wonder if Tony Snowjob will get any kind of product endorsement contracts?
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 pmJake’s the biggest liar of all, and he don’t care….YEAH!
He lies to himself all day… Spews talking points all day-day-day…
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 pmHe LIES to himself all day…. and WE DON”T CARE…
Tony Snowjob = Enemy of the State
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 pmTony Snowjob = Enemy of the State
Comment by big papa
Tony Snowjob = Enema of the State
I fixed it for you, big papa. :)
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 pmI was going to say something about _ugggh_ snowjob, but “Enema of The State” is fitting, indeed.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 pmWhat I am trying to say is that, for instance, a question of a Christmas card list is far less significant than: every reason for taking us into an unnecessary counterproductive war costing the lives of 658,000 humans and $2.3 Trillion being a known lie twelve months before given.
For pete’s sake, I can’t even get anyone to agree with that. You just say ” a lie is a lie, so what they all do it”.
The hypocricy is mind-boggling. You are beyond all reasoning.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pmYOUR EXCELLENT ACCOMPANYING PHOTO OF Tony “Colostomy-Bag” Snow-JOB-Man SHOWS HOW, MORE AND MORE, HE RESEMBLES THOSE TALKING WOODEN VENTRILQUIST DUMMIES OF YORE LIKE Charlie McCarthy(tm) and Mortimer Snerd(tm) WHO WERE NOT ONLY SMARTER THAN PHONY-Tony, BUT PRETTIER, TOO!!!!! AND WHAT CAME OUT OF Charlie and Mortimer’s MOUTHS MADE A HELL OF A LOT MORE SENSE, TOO!!!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET YOUR DAILY BITCH-SLAPPING FROM MY E-MAILED FIST, BITCH-Tony?????
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 pmre: #85
No joke: Cheney’s Secret Service code name is “Edgar” as in Edgar Bergen—meaning W is Charlie McCarthy.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 pmComment by Zooey #82
Thanks Zooey… :)
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 amI remember Democrats and the media going crazy when the Executive Branch searched and sezie Congressman (D) William Jefferson’s house and $90,000 in cash he had stashed in his freezer…..
I remember that the Democrats were crying about seperations of powers and claiming that the Executive Branch couldn’t investigate the Legislative Branch….
now the tables are turn, right? and Democrats are stepping on their own words that the spewed while the whole William Jefferson debacle.
hmmm….seems Democrats believe in seperation of powers when it comes to defending one of their own corrupt, but could careless about it when it goes the other way.
and yes, Republicans are being hypocrites too.
such dirty, filthy politics….no wonder most Americans are so ignorant about it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 am“telling” isn’t crooked enough for Tony and the crew - they much prefer using insinuation - that’s about as close as they can ever get to a straightforward statement on anything - I think it’s in their “how to talk to the public and the press” handbook.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pmThe issue isn’t the legality of firing the attorney generals–though it is relevant to point out that the politicizing the executive branch is unconstitutional.
The point is demonstrating that this administration once again: (1) failed to act appropriately (firing AG’s because they are investigating Republican officials, even if not illegal, is poor judgment) (2) lied about it, and (3) another example of this administration acting against the overriding interests of U.S. citizens
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:43 pmThese white house whores piss me off sooooo much.
I almost wonder what the conversation is like when he goes home and eats dinner with his family.
Do they talk about “jihadists” and “evil liberals”…
Or do they talk about how they are screwing over the public and getting away with it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pmIt seems more and more like Bush and his cohorts believe that the rule of law does not apply to them. This administration will surely be remembered as the worst in the entire history of the United States. I’m sure that as death-bed confessions and declassified documents become available over the next 20 years that this fact will become more and more clear. Bush will be compared to Nero and our grandchildren will know that he ushered in an unprecedented era of corruption and corporate pandering. Over the last 8 years the executive branch has become more of a ministry of truth, and the president has become more of a dictator. Even the legitimacy of his claim to the position is dubious at best, given the recent convictions of members on the Ohio elections board.
Bottom line is that Bush is little more than a privileged frat-boy who never got his come-up-ins, but we all know that you reap what you sew. His time will come.
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pmI think that the general objective here is to restore more accountability from the Executive branch. The Patriot Act removed some of that accountability and has resulted in the abuses seen here (derailing ongoing investigations that could adversely affect the Republican party while appointing political allies without having to go through Senate approval while also ). This was perfectly legal at the time, but unseemly, which is why Gonzalez probably lied to Congress about the circumstances of the firings.
I’m in favor of further investigation because (a) the accountability of the presidency, both to Congress, but especially to the people, must be reestablished, regardless of the party in power. Practices such as private, unrecorded and non-binding testimony should be recognized for the deceptions that they are. (b) Abuse of the powers provided by the Patriot Act should serve to bring about a review of that document for the loopholes that it seems to have been drafted to provide.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 pmSome Republican out there please explain to my how you can accept a person saying one thing, then a few months later saying the exact opposite. Do you pull out your notebooks and update your list of what you should be believing at the moment? Do you go home and pull up a spreadsheet on your computer and change the cell that says “Congress: Good” to “Congress: Bad?” Are you that much of a sheep?
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