It's Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt

[Phred42]

Reid & Pelosi both need to go. Neither is qualified for Leadership positions.
More than bein held in contempt they need to start worrying about being considered: Accessory after the fact
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Accessory after the fact

Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.

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Naomi says it better

It's Time to Hold Democratic House Leaders in Contempt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/its-time-to-hold-democra_b_83322.html

Like many of us, after having watched helplessly as the Bush administration trampled the Constitution and made a mockery of checks and balances over the course of five bitter years, I was hopeful when the American people elected a Democratic Congress in November of 2006. Finally, I imagined, we would have a whiff of legality and the hint of a restoration of the rule of law in the land. Perhaps we would even have congressional committees to oversee the administration's subversions of the rule of law and investigate the wide range of abuses that it had perpetrated since 2001.

There has been a bit of movement -- which is why the thousands of Americans I have met who are appalled at these abuses but feel powerless to raise their voices effectively should take heart, but not stop their fight. To some extent, these raised voices have yielded some action: Congress has in fact held numerous hearings on issues -- ranging from torture to warrantless wiretapping -- that had been taboo to contend with when the administration was heedlessly, and unopposed, using a hyped narrative of `the global war on terror' to subdue American liberties. Most prominently, we got some of the bad guys out of town. Citizen-driven congressional investigations into the politicization of the Department of Justice, for example, spurred the resignations of many key Bush administration officials, including the mild-mannered gatekeeper of the first bolgia of Hell, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

And yet, where it counts most, Democratic leaders in Congress have completely abdicated their constitutional oversight role. What they are doing now reprises the worst failures of other self-paralyzed Parliaments in societies that were facing crackdowns on civil liberties and the rule of law, and their voluntary self-emasculation may go down in history as one of those turning points at which leaders cave shamefully to transformative pressure that leaves a country far less than its founded ideal. Through their actions, they are potentially causing irreparable harm to the institution of Congress itself.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its them Republicans that screwed us royal....they did it to us....

Vote BLUE

[ixion]

4. don't play the victim. The dems have screwed themselves by bending over for republicans

it needs to start with taking responsibility, rather than blaming someone else.

[pocoloco]

2. OK....Works for me

.....but...but....but......who you gonna call?????

[Toots]

3. OK I do hold them in contempt but so what?

I have come to the realization that Justice will not occur and I plan on just going on with my life. It makes no difference (apparently) what letter follows a person's name. Money is the thing that talks...