Taylor to still testify on Wednesday?
By on Jul 9th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Taylor to still testify on Wednesday?
Earlier today, President Bush invoked executive privilege to block former aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers from testifying to Congress. But, according to Senate Judiciary Committee spokesperson Tracy Schmaler, Taylor will still appear before the committee as scheduled on Wednesday.
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Good. She has said that she wants to testify. I see no reason why she should be prevented from doing so.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:53 pmShe has a smart lawyer. Taylor’s willingness to testify is not only likely to be, in the long term, the only choice, she is going to get a far more sympathetic hearing if she shows up now then after a long-drawn out court case.
So, does Bush send US Marshalls to keep her from testifying?
July 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pmLike every other Bushco loyalist she won’t remember anything when she does testify.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pmlooks like guilt has gotten the best of her…. she knows what’s up…. get yer popcorn ready!
July 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pmSo, she’s disobeying a direct command by the commander-in-chief? She should be arrested for that.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pmWhistleblower? Dare we hope? Will she live to see sunrise on Wednesday?
July 9th, 2007 at 5:58 pmHmmm….too macabre and cavalier about Taylor’s life on my last post. My sincere apologies to my fellow posters.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pmSo, she’s disobeying a direct command by the commander-in-chief? She should be arrested for that.
Comment by No-one in particular
She’s in the military? No sh!t?
Hey, dumbo. The President is Commander in Chief of the military, not civilians.
Didn’t you trolls ever go to school at all?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pmMaybe Gonzo can give her his crib sheet:
“I don’t recall………..I don’t recall……….I don’t recall, EXACTLY….etc.”
I am sure it will come in handy.
And if she gets off script, cheney will have his favorite shotgun loaded with Double-ought and a good buzz going, just in case.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pmDidn’t you trolls ever go to school at all?
Comment by gummitch
Homeschooled, can’t you tell?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pmI doubt she’ll say much, if anything. Not that Bush has any standing to block her testimony, but they love to hide behind legalese or the illusion of legality or what we could now call legaliness…
July 9th, 2007 at 6:02 pmHmmm….too macabre and cavalier about Taylor’s life on my last post. My sincere apologies to my fellow posters.
Comment by BlueArkansas
I’m with you. She better watch her back.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:03 pmCongress should take a lesson from the Bush Administration: Power is not given, it is taken. Passivity will never strengthren your hand, nor will adherence to civility. The only thing Bushco will understand is force, and, as they’re dyed-in-the-wool cowards, the slightest show of force will make them cower in submission.
Make them submit. Failure to do this will make Congress irrelevant.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:03 pmUnless of course she is accidently shot in the face in a drunken hunting mishap at the White House (yes. they hunt on the lawn. They let lose some unemployed steel workers and hunt ‘em down as they forage for food stamps)
July 9th, 2007 at 6:04 pmThis is getting more interesting by the minute!
Thank you, Sara Taylor. By conducting a brilliant CYA move, you are forcing this issue to continue to be front and center for the American people.
I bet that vein on the King’s forehead is sticking out…. :)
July 9th, 2007 at 6:05 pmLet me give you a preview:
“I cannot recall”
“I cannot remember”
“I cannot recollect”
“I wont speak on behalf of that”
Multiply the above by 50. There ya go. Hope ya’ll’er happy.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:05 pmWhistleblower? Dare we hope? Will she live to see sunrise on Wednesday?
Comment by BlueArkansas
Knowing the “Dick” crowd, this might be a legitimate concern.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:06 pmSection 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; [...]
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article02/
dumby has no authority to arrest taylor for testifying…
taylor is NOT disobying any direct command from anyone -
unless she doesn’t show up on wednesday…
then it’s CONTEMPT of congress…
July 9th, 2007 at 6:08 pm…
Wow – good on her! Perhaps there is actually a stand-up patriotic Republic out there. I hope that she goes into hiding until it is time for her to testify though. I fear for her life!
July 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pmComment by Punchy — July 9, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
Let me add one more:
“By Executive Order of the President of the United States, I am not allowed to testify. However, having been subpoenaed to this Judiciary Committee hearing, I appear in good faith.”
C. Y. A.
Heh.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:13 pmI hope they give her protection all the way to wherever she is testifying..
July 9th, 2007 at 6:15 pmI love the fact that they are going right ahead with her testimony, while Bush throws his little tantrum in the corner.
“The Decider” can invoke all the privliges he wants to and our representatives in congress can ignore them.
Who is “irrelevent” now, biatch?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:15 pmYou guys, I truly hope Ms Taylor is showing to testify at her hearing, regardless of the EO. It would show true character on her part.
However, I have a nasty feeling about this. Ms Taylor’s attorney says she will “appear” as scheduled — he does not say she will “testify.”
July 9th, 2007 at 6:20 pmi just found this headline on google news… i won’t go to the link, tho…
Contempt of Congress: What Is It?
FOX News – 1 hour ago
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, AP Writer WASHINGTON – Congress and the White House appear headed for a showdown over President Bush’s decision to invoke executive privilege to deny documents to House and Senate committees and prevent former aides from testifying …
surely they’ll get the facts … right?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:22 pm…
yes, z… those lawyers are pretty careful
July 9th, 2007 at 6:23 pmwith their words…
i do NOT trust these people at all…
Screw Dubya, he can’t tell her not to testify…she no longer works for the turd, KKKarl rover.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:24 pmYou all are forgetting the best line of all…
From Monica Goodling:
“I don’t believe I intended to commit a crime.” Try that the next time you are stopped for speeding or drunk driving. That is so wonderful I put in big type on the wall of my cube.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:36 pmMs. Taylor should obey God’s will, and follow the 8th Commandment…
July 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pmComment by AkaDad — July 9, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Thou shalt not steal??
July 9th, 2007 at 7:01 pmyes, z… those lawyers are pretty careful
with their words…
i do NOT trust these people at all…
Comment by katy
Trust me, I was the Zookeeper!
July 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pmSeeing that she’s a FORMER employee of the White House, I fail to see what Bush can do to stop her or protect her from a contempt of congress charge. Bush can claim executive privilege all he wants but if the people who are speaking to congress are not part of his administration, he can not stop them unless he files an injunction in court to cut them off at the pass. It’s possibly her lawyer is advising her to testify because if she doesn’t, she will be in jail for contempt of congress, not Bush, Cheney or Rove as she is not part of the executive branch any longer. Bush could pardon her but she would be back in jail for Contempt of Congress the next them she blows them off on top of the fact that the Contempt charge could be extended to the administration.
Of course she could fall down a manhole on the way to the capitol…
July 9th, 2007 at 7:09 pmChris L
My bad, should be 9th.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pmhmmmm…
Don’t get your hopes up Lefties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!
July 9th, 2007 at 7:18 pmRemember the name SARA TAYLOR, folks!!!
The former Rove aide, who history will record,
exposed the TREASON of the Bushes and PNAC….
Do your PATRIOTIC DUTY, Sara.
Tell the TRUTH about the WAR CRIMINALS who “run” OUR government!
July 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pm#
Chris L
My bad, should be 9th.
Comment by AkaDad — July 9, 2007 @ 7:16 pm
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So you are saying she cannot testify without committing perjury? That is what “bearing false witness” is in court. What if she just testifies, and tells the truth? There would be no violation of the 9th commandment there.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pm“The former Rove aide, who history will record,
exposed the TREASON of the Bushes and PNAC…”
July 9th, 2007 at 8:22 pmone can only hope a person with a conscience steps forward….but she has the exact personality as the pudgy pnac punk on the front page, sampson, goodling and all those regent U grads. all single, all pasty looking, all in their 30’s….see the trend, they are all drones…rove must have set-up psych tests before they were hired. GL ms. taylor speak the truth and save your career and maybe you will be a hero………but i can hear her now.. it was sampson, it was sampson…
According to salon.com, Sarah Taylor WILL be testifying on Wednesday.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pmYou have to have hope that when you get away from that toxic environment the brain damage wears off and some amount of level headed mental activity returns.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:54 pmOn the other hand: she can take up valuable media space with brain dead goo and join the others who have little or no working mental capacity that are paraded out of this ………dark house.
Which one do you think will show up??
Mary59 at the Mediamatters site has a wonderful timeline posted in reference to their piece about Snow’s reference to “chutzpah” and the media’s failure to distinguish between Clinton’s subjects who were pardoned and Libby. Mary takes it a brilliant step further, and notes the Republicans’ typical investigative barrage into virtually every one of Clinton’s pardon’s, the finding by all of them that there was no basis for wrongdoing in any of them, and, most importantly of all, the absolute transparency of the Clinton White House in sending his advisers to testify on the subject of the pardons.
Magnificent! Go there at http://mediamatters.org/items/200707090003?made_comment=1
July 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pmp.s. Including one Mr. John Podesta!
July 10th, 2007 at 12:48 pm