Waxman to RNC: Get your answers ready now.
By on May 1st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Waxman to RNC: Get your answers ready now.
House oversight chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) sent a letter today to Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, urging him to be ready to answer questions about specific topics at his hearing on May 8. Among other topics, Waxman tells Duncan he will need to discuss the names of all White House officials who have used RNC e-mail accounts, the number of communications each White House official sent or received using RNC e-mail accounts each year, and the policies “relating to the preservation, storage, or destruction of communications transmitted using RNC e-mail accounts.”
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Expect a lot of misdirection, deflection, denial, amnesia, and lying.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:18 pmDuncan only has to remember to forget.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:18 pmSubpoena the IT peole already!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:20 pmSubpoena the IT people already!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:20 pm“We couldn’t access that information”
“I don’t recall”
“We have had technical problems”
“We weren’t instructed to do so”
“It’s not our responsibility”
Wash, rinse, repeat.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:25 pmHe can claim “executive privilege” cause, well, cause, well…
he CAN, cause I say so…
And I’m the DECIDERER, and the LIARER, and the WAR CRIMINALER!!
See you in hell dunkie-dunk (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
May 1st, 2007 at 9:27 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo, Inc.)
Go,Waxman Go!!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:29 pmKick their tails up into their teeth….
I knnow a couple pimply 14 year olds that can help them “find” those emails.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:33 pmI am sick to death of people calling the Democrats cowards. I have never seen one ounce of ‘courage’ coming from Bush or Cheney. A man of courage or honor doesn’t need to lie or work in the dark. A man of courage or honor isn’t afraid to listen to others and change when chage is called for.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:34 pmHenry Waxman is showing absolute courage, a force of will and conviction to keep going after these people. He’s like a dog on a pork chop. A lot of Americans have been hanging on, hoping someone would do something to put things right again and hold these people to account.
I am in utter admiration of Henry Waxman and look forward to each and every oversight hearing. It is restoring my hope in the system. These hearings have been a long time coming.
Go, Waxman,go!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:38 pmToday’s secret word is…
Subpoena!!
When you hear the secret word…
Scream Real Loud!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pmSorry, but the White House is still reviewing this information for possible Executive Privilege claims.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:47 pmHenry has hair!
We just can’t see it!
Henry’s middle name is “Straw,” as in “camel’s back.”
VIVA Henry!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 9:50 pmJG:
It doesn’t take that much courage to bribe votes just to send the President a bill you know he is going to veto.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:52 pmHe’s practicing his responses right now….. ” I can’t recall, I don’t remember, I can’t recall what I don’t remember, I remember that I can’t recall.” It seems fairly evident that the agenda of the bushies is to control government and they will manage to “forget” or “not remember” anything that will cause harm to their agenda.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:54 pm“It doesn’t take that much courage to bribe votes just to send the President a bill you know he is going to veto.
Comment by Jake”
Can you say “non sequitur”?
May 1st, 2007 at 9:56 pmIt is more courageous to try than to give up and just not try.
And besides that, I doubt that they (the Democrats) are finished yet..
And, by the way, courage is a character trait. Stubborness and lying are behaviors. Bush and Cheney have some serious behavioral problems and character deficiencies..
May 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pmoops.. It is more courageous to try than to give up and just not try?(I was supposed to put a question mark)
May 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pmHowever, the Bush administration appears quite willing to continue its divide-and-rule policies in the Middle East by preventing the resumption of talks that could end hostilities between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It is yet another reminder that the problem with U.S. policy is not that it is too “pro-Israel,†but that it is anti-peace.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4190
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4190
May 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pmhi
May 1st, 2007 at 9:59 pmActually, JG, bribery is ILLEGAL, not a character trait. I’m glad Bush vetoed all that pork. I just hope no troops DIE because of lack of funds.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:02 pmWaxman to RNC…
Your Ass is MINE!!
Bend Over, Karl Rove
LOL!!
May 1st, 2007 at 10:02 pmSubpoena!!
May 1st, 2007 at 10:05 pm“Your Ass is MINE!!”
Vice-Principal Rooney in Ferris Buller’s Day Off?
May 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pmInteresting how it is just now bothering you that a bill had to have pork in it in order to get passed.. Every bill the Republicans passed over the last 6 years has been filled with pork (without NEEDING to have pork), often with things slipped in during the middle of the night. So, why is it bothering you so much now? Why is it ‘illegal’ when the Dems do it but not when the Republicans do it?
I call that hypocrisy (another character deficiency).
May 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pmAnd Jake, if you are so worried about troops dying, then you should be supporting bringing an end to this war so they can come home instead of being ordered by this president to stand in the middle of a sectarian conflict and be target practice in an unnecessary war. The Dems are doing something to stop the dying of our soldiers.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pmActually, JG, the partial birth abortion ban had ZERO pork, was not passed in the middel of the night, and got a few Dems votes even. If Congress had given Bush a war funding bill that also required anyone who ever posted on the Internet with a screen name beginning in the letter “J” to be immediately rounded up and imprisoned in Gitmo, could he veto the bill then?
May 1st, 2007 at 10:11 pmCan you say “non sequitur�
Comment by mongo
Even if “it” could, “it” wouldn’t know what it means. He’s too busy cuddling up with his inflatable George Bush sex doll, the one with 3 entry portals…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:13 pmAnd we disagree about whether the war was necessary.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:14 pmWas This War Necessary?
Ask 600,000 dead Iraqis.
Ask 3300 dead Americans.
And if you still say yes,
May 1st, 2007 at 10:22 pmenlist today and go there
yourself, dumbass.
I love Waxman so much. He’s become a super hardass and I love it. Every day there’s a new article about Waxman issuing subpoenas and laying down the law for Republican douchebags.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:22 pmDamn, I keep forgetting to change my nick back after I do a gag.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:23 pmDamn, I keep forgetting to change my nick back after I do a gag.
Comment by Tom3
Oy…..I know the feeling. :D
May 1st, 2007 at 10:26 pmWaxman is just the start too. Other committees are holding hearings.
They need to hold hearings on Abramoff and the Marianas.
That will destroy the Republican party for 20 years. Good.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:27 pmAnyone left NOT on the “Ignore List”?
May 1st, 2007 at 10:30 pmI am confused. Is jake the cowardly lion or the strawman?
May 1st, 2007 at 10:32 pmI fail to understand how the RNC can claim that “executive privilage” claims are valid in the case of emails used on a non-government server (I know the republicans want their party to be THE government, just like the Communist Party was THE government of the USSR, but I don’t think WE THE PEOPLE are going to idly sit by and allow the complete subversion of our system, despite the 30 percent traitors protochristofascists running loose…don’t forget they have not yet voided the 2nd Amendment). By failing to use the government email system in order to not leave a record behind their criminal trail, they forfeited any claims of privilage….Provide the records or be held in contemp. Lock these bastards up. Then bring out a firing squad and lets cleanse the country of this pox.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:32 pm#35 To answer that question, no douchebag, nobody worth a d$mn is left off of your pathetic Buscemi list.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:33 pmJPark,
Jake is the troll who lives under the Republibridge.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:33 pmAnd we disagree about whether the war was necessary.
Comment by Jake — May 1, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
No we CAN’T! Your *ignorant* opinion doesn’t count – as usual – Jake*ss.
That’s the problem with you Conservatives, you think an *ignorant* and *uninformed* opinion, is the same as reality – even when reality shows you that your *opinion* is wrong… That’s called a *delusion* SON, not a difference of opinion…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pmI can’t wait to see Jon Stewart tonight and see what he does with the anniversary of Bush’s wonderful “Mission Accomplished” photo op. Olbermann was great. He had Frank Rich on. Love that guy, loved his book.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pmI am confused. Is jake the cowardly lion or the strawman?
Comment by JPark — May 1, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
He’s their *immoral* gay love child – the cowardly strawman…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36 pmActually, JG, the partial birth abortion ban had ZERO pork,
Comment by Jake
Link.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36 pmActually, JG, bribery is ILLEGAL, not a character trait. I’m glad Bush vetoed all that pork. I just hope no troops DIE because of lack of funds. Comment by Jake — May 1, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Yet thats exactly what Wolfowitz did to get his *girlfriend* a job with a defense contractor. You’re the party of *bribery*, your *shock* and *smears* are funny – when compared to the *reality* of your own values – SON.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pmgo henry!
go henry!
go henry!
like it’s yo’ birthday,
go henry!. . .
i am diggin’ this cat’s style. . .
leaving no room for deflections
like “i’m not prepared
to answer THOSE sorts of questions. . .”
pe r f e c t !
May 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pmAnd we disagree about whether the war was necessary.
Comment by Jake
Only a black hearted person could call our invasion/massacre a war and justify it as “necessary” especially now that the truth, a truth most of us already knew, is now public knowledge. Our horrific deeds of murder, rape, torture, … was necessary for oil, empire building, so Bush could be a war president, purposely divert attention from our crumbling infrastructure/social programs ( the new deal is dead right?), so corporate America could gain more power and wealth…
May 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pmNecessary!!!???? What kind of a person are YOU?
Actually, JG, the partial birth abortion ban had ZERO pork,
Comment by Jake
Jesus, you’re stupid. Read slowly:
There was no PORK in the recent decision by the SCOTUS, because it was a f*cking DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:40 pmpartial birth abortion pork
mmmmmmmm. barbeque.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:42 pmpartial birth abortion pork
mmmmmmmm. barbeque.
Comment by Tom3
I’ve had some good laughs today, but I think that’s the best yet! :-D
May 1st, 2007 at 10:48 pmMy favorite Supremes case this year is BONG HITS 4 JESUS
Really! Its the big First Amendment case this term.
Of course, Bong Hits 4 Jesus isn’t the official name of the case.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pmHey I just thought of something. You know how people yell back and forth on this site, and many other political blogs? I was reading the thread tonight when all of a sudden I thought, “It would be HILARIOUS if Jake is actually one of our next-door neighbors or even one of our bosses!” The anonymity of the web is a fragile thing. It would just be really funny if people found out in real life who you are on the web. (Not a bad thing, necessarily, just an amusing thing.)
May 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pm#50 It is an interesting case. Even religious groups are backing this kid. I guess they fear a slippery slope situation.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pmI believe the cite is Bong Hits V. Jesus, case no. 420
May 1st, 2007 at 10:55 pmI just hope no troops DIE because of lack of funds. Comment by Jake
Get your head out of limpball’s,insanity’s, weener’s ASS. The troops will DIE because Bush is sending them to an impossible situation HE created and refuses to admit the failure it really is. Our troops are dying so Bush can save face.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:56 pmThere was no PORK in the recent decision by the SCOTUS, because it was a f*cking DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT.
Comment by Zooey
Estimates for defending the Bill are in the tens of millions. Government hasn’t released the whole cost yet. That I can find.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:57 pmEstimates for defending the Bill are in the tens of millions. Government hasn’t released the whole cost yet. That I can find.
Comment by Wayne
Talk about “pork.” Ugh.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:00 pmThe secret woid tonight is-
Subpoena
If one of the contestants says the secret woid, the duck will come down, give them a hundred dollars, and shit on Bush’s head.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:01 pmDamn, I would PAY a hundred bucks to see a duck take a shit on Chimpy’s head.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:08 pmI believe the cite is Bong Hits V. Jesus, case no. 420
Comment by Tom3
Are you serious?
May 1st, 2007 at 11:10 pmIf one of the contestants says the secret woid, the duck will come down, give them a hundred dollars, and shit on Bush’s head.
Comment by RUCerious
Duck yuck.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:11 pm#59 Hehe, I think you missed the case number.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:15 pm#59 Hehe, I think you missed the case number.
Comment by JPark
Oh crap, I did miss it. **blush**
Ok, it was my turn to look like an idiot anyway.
Your turn tomorrow, JPark. :)
May 1st, 2007 at 11:18 pmI am confused. Is jake the cowardly lion or the strawman?
Comment by JPark — May 1, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
Both, no courage and no brain. He the tinman too, definitely no heart.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:19 pm#59 Hehe, I think you missed the case number.
Comment by JPark
420 is a slang term for “herb”. He added that on purpose, me thinks.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:23 pmPart of the Joke =D
It would be HILARIOUS if Jake is actually one of our next-door neighbors or even one of our bosses!
Comment by Clare — May 1, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
The only way Jake could be your neighbor is if you live in a trailer park. And as far as him being your boss, I think not. Perhaps your mail room boy, but boss?
May 1st, 2007 at 11:24 pm#62 Eh, I do it all the time :)
May 1st, 2007 at 11:24 pm#64 Actually it is code for the time of lightup. I know way to much about something I have tried twice. Jeez.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:25 pmBoth, no courage and no brain. He the tinman too, definitely no heart.
Comment by Shane
So Jake is the cowardly, tin strawman with no heart.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:26 pmYep, that fits.
Damn, I would PAY a hundred bucks to see a duck take a shit on Chimpy’s head.
Comment by Tom3 — May 1, 2007 @ 11:08 pm
Yes, but I’d rather pay a hundred ducks to see a buck take a shit on Chimpy’s head.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:27 pm#63 and #68 Yeah, it definitely fits old Jake.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:28 pmSo Jake is the cowardly, tin strawman with no heart.
Yep, that fits.
Comment by Wayne — May 1, 2007 @ 11:26 pm
BINGO! We have a winner, good job Wayne.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:31 pm420 is a slang term for “herbâ€. He added that on purpose, me thinks.
Part of the Joke =D
Comment by Wayne
I know. Geez….
You must not have seen me wish whiteyfresh a Happy 4/20. :D
I didn’t realize that Tom3 belongs on the Sneaky & Sarcastic list.
He’s been added.
Thanks for prolonging my agony, Wayne. I owe you a big one. :P
May 1st, 2007 at 11:31 pm#64 Actually it is code for the time of lightup. I know way to much about something I have tried twice. Jeez.
Comment by JPark
I plead the fifth………..
May 1st, 2007 at 11:31 pmIt’s
notlike I was in high school in the 70s.=D
Yes, but I’d rather pay a hundred ducks to see a buck take a shit on Chimpy’s head.
Comment by Shane
Duck Yuck is worse than Buck Yuck.
Just sayin’
May 1st, 2007 at 11:33 pmThanks for prolonging my agony, Wayne. I owe you a big one. :P
Comment by Zooey
=D
May 1st, 2007 at 11:35 pm#74 Buck yuck is a lot bigger!!
May 1st, 2007 at 11:36 pmBuck yuck is a lot bigger!!
Comment by JPark
Is not! Have you ever seen Buck Yuck?
May 1st, 2007 at 11:42 pmIs not! Have you ever seen Buck Yuck?
Comment by Zooey
slingshot pellets lol
May 1st, 2007 at 11:43 pmI can’t believe the conversations I’m having tonight — and here’s me stone-cold sober.
Heh.
I’m outta here, ya’ll. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do — and if you do, I’m gonna want details. :)
May 1st, 2007 at 11:43 pm#78 Buck yuck is huge. Find a 14 pointer and follow it for awhile :)
May 1st, 2007 at 11:46 pmNight Zookeeper.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:46 pm“Well, to be honest Mr. Waxman, I was trying to help out this millionaire in Zimbabwe who was attempting to get his money out of the country.”
May 1st, 2007 at 11:47 pmBuck yuck is a lot bigger!!
Comment by JPark
Is not! Have you ever seen Buck Yuck?
Comment by Zooey — May 1, 2007 @ 11:42 pm
I believe we’ve turned into Dr. Seuss.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:50 pm“Well, to be honest Mr. Waxman, I was trying to help out this millionaire in Zimbabwe who was attempting to get his money out of the country.†Comment by muckdog — May 1, 2007 @ 11:47 pm
Yep, that sums up your level of st*pidity. Perhaps that’s why you’re such an eager shill for the oil industry, and so willing to post known lies, smears and disinformation. Tell me, did the Nigerians *promise* to pay you for your loyalty to their oil lands? Dum bass.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:51 pm#84 I am not sure about that post. It was so out there that I figured it was a namejack.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:55 pmvery interesting articleWe may come to an understanding nowCurrently it looks like there is no hopewhat can we do שיפוצים מבנים מסוכנים חיזוק מבנים שיקום בניינים תמ"א 38
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 am#86 Yeah, nilsen, thanks for the gibberish.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 amBush should just call “executive privilege” what it is. It means “I’m a facist dictator that can claim whatever he wants.”
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:09 amIs not! Have you ever seen Buck Yuck?
Comment by Zooey — May 1, 2007 @ 11:42 pm
I believe we’ve turned into Dr. Seuss.
Comment by Shane — May 1, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
Yup,my thoughts exactly;that’s about the size of it.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:20 am#89 Is that an insult ?????
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:42 am#89 Is that an insult ?????
Comment by JPark
Well now,that depends,doesn’t it.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 am>He’s like a dog on a pork chop.
I’ve never hear that phrase used as a compliment before, kudos.
By the way, how old is “jake” this week.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:28 amScientists have found the missing sense which fuels the disease called Republicanism.
It’s called COMMON SENSE.
The members of the party routinely show they are lacking this sense.
Republicans say: You can’t set a date because they can just wait us out.
Common Sense: They can wait forever. They live there. Where else are they going to wait?
Republicans say: The News will not report the good news coming out of Iraq.
Common Sense says: Fox News reports the good things happening in Iraq. Oh they don’t? BECAUSE THERE IS NONE.
Republicans Say: Bush didn’t lie.
Common Sense: Where do you start? I’ll leave it at “Some people just can’t be helped”
Republicans say: Clinton did it.
Common Sense says: You did it to Clinton. What are you hiding Condi and Monica? Get your behind up to congress and testify.
Republicans say: They will follow us home.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:47 amCommon Sense says. It is “nonsense,” Hagel said, because “Iraq is not embroiled in a terrorist war today.” Hagel, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, cited “national intelligence” attributing “maybe 10 percent” of the insurgency and violence to al-Qaeda.
yes, Mr. Duncan, get your “I do not recall” spiel ready for primetime…
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:08 amBut the answers will be, “I don’t know”, “I can’t remember”, “that information is not available”, and so on.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 amThe GOP is over! When this gets exposed and the rank and file realize what’s been going on, the GOP will suffer the same credibility loss as this administration of smoke & mirrors.
GOP – Just another slimebag group of very ordinary criminals.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:18 amDisband the RNC and outlaw the GOP – but leave them free to re-organize under another name. They’ve very clearly demonstrated their utter ideological bankruptcy, and intervention is the only remedy.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 amGive ‘em hell Henry!
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 pm