Time to leave the country for a while...
Mar. 21st, 2007 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeisler...but I'll have to wait another six weeks.
Why this sudden urge? I'm damned tired of living in this administration.
The executive branch will, in the President's infinite generosity and wisdom, allow several people to testify before Congress, but only if they are not made to do so under oath. (This, of course, is all in aid of understanding the firings of U.S. attorneys and why the U.S. attorney general is still in his job.) (And, of course, he's doing a heck of a job.)
And if Congress issues subpoenas requiring testimony under oath, the executive will withdraw its "extraordinarily generous" offer.
Bull pucky.
So the Democrats today empowered their leadrship to issue subpoenas if needed. And the president (more in sorrow than in anger) will, if the subpoenas are issued, tell "his" folks they can't testify.
The Libby conviction has taught them that they can get away with anything as long as there's no perjury involved (that can be proven).
So the president of the United States is saying to the entire world that the only way he will allow members of the executive branch to testify in front of Congress is if those same members of the executive branch have the possibility of lying without triggering the law.
Bull pucky. Oh. I said that already. Twice.
I think I'll go visit a nice, clean, obviously totalitarian country. My skin won't feel quite so crawly as it does right now.
Why this sudden urge? I'm damned tired of living in this administration.
The executive branch will, in the President's infinite generosity and wisdom, allow several people to testify before Congress, but only if they are not made to do so under oath. (This, of course, is all in aid of understanding the firings of U.S. attorneys and why the U.S. attorney general is still in his job.) (And, of course, he's doing a heck of a job.)
And if Congress issues subpoenas requiring testimony under oath, the executive will withdraw its "extraordinarily generous" offer.
Bull pucky.
So the Democrats today empowered their leadrship to issue subpoenas if needed. And the president (more in sorrow than in anger) will, if the subpoenas are issued, tell "his" folks they can't testify.
[White House spokesman Tony] Snow said there is no need for oaths or transcripts for the private congressional interviews with the White House aides.Bull pucky again.
"The president expects everybody who talks to Congress to tell the truth, and so does the law. And they know that it would be illegal not to tell them the truth," he said.
The Libby conviction has taught them that they can get away with anything as long as there's no perjury involved (that can be proven).
So the president of the United States is saying to the entire world that the only way he will allow members of the executive branch to testify in front of Congress is if those same members of the executive branch have the possibility of lying without triggering the law.
Bull pucky. Oh. I said that already. Twice.
I think I'll go visit a nice, clean, obviously totalitarian country. My skin won't feel quite so crawly as it does right now.