Republicans walk out on contempt vote. Rather than be part of “partisan fishing expedition”

[dajoki]

Republicans walk out on contempt vote
By Klaus Marre
Posted: 02/14/08 01:49 PM
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/republicans-walk-out-on-contempt-vote-2008-02-14.html

House Republicans Thursday left the chamber ahead of a vote seeking to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys.

The move was intended to show that Republicans want to work on a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rather than be part of a “partisan fishing expedition,” as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it.

At a press conference following the walkout, Boehner said “Before Congress leaves town, we must give our intelligence officials the tools they need to keep America safe.

“The president will delay his trip to Africa to deal with this critical issue. And Republicans are prepared to stay here as long as it takes to complete our work,” Boehner added. “The terrorist threat to our country is not going away. We must do everything we can to protect the American people, and we should start by passing the bipartisan Senate bill.”

[MichiganVote]

1. These people are the real terrorists.

[Disturbed]

2. Subpoenas are no longer a viable Legal avenue for Congress.

They have been rendered meaningless by the Busholini Regime.

The real alternative is Inherent Contempt. Issue those, NOW!

[MichiganVote]

4. The Lawless Congress. They make Clinton's supposed "Land Deal" look tame.

[leftofthedial]

3. hypocrites, of course. all repukes are hypocrites.

but these vermin are dangerously close to complicity in treason.

[CC]

5. Like the repukes didn't have this

planned.:mad: Free TV coverage to whine and spread their message. The Idiot in chief goes on TV spreading the fear and how dangerous the Democratic members of Congress are making things. So dangerous that he will postpone his trip to stick around to sign a bill he wants more than anything. So dangerous that he will veto it if big business doesn't get its immunity. Then the repukes walk out what an hour or so later in a pissy fit because they can't get their way and Congress might actually do something right.:puke: A good journalist would point how how whiny and stupid they are and think we are and explain why leaving the Justice Dept in disarray or worse is just a fucking dangerous if not more so.:nuke:

[blondie58]

20. heck, yeah- it was planned

I didn't know until I watched KO's comment that they had a PODIUM set in place already. What a bunch of losers.

I like your menagerie of pets, CC!

[RC]

6. The Comment I have in my profile covers the republicans actions exactly.

It does not matter where in the political spectrum one adheres.
The same rules of right and wrong, good and evil applies to everyone.
Our greatest danger of extinction comes from those that think the rules do not apply to them.
RC

Words fail me about how childish, self-serving and hypocritical the House republicans are. They didn't get there way for a change and they threw a temper tantrum.

[Perry Logan]

7. Step one for the new President: declare martial law and arrest all Republican officeholders.

[chemp]

8. I know it's just wishful thinking

but arresting the opposition is something their people all demand.
We should shout them down, and get 'em out of office.

[Perry Logan]

9. The right are traitors. We've got to get them out of our country.

[chemp]

14. They say the same about us.

Wrong. Twister. Traitors. Perhaps. But arresting anyone with an (R) after his name is also wrong.

[Perry Logan]

15. Stop being so reasonable.

[biscotti]

10. That is a group

of contemptible swine wallowing in their trough of criminal acts against the Constitution..

[Bright Eyes]

11. Good. Let's just hope they don't come back!

[BeHereNow]

12. Doesn't their action fall under "contempt" for we, the people.

You sure can't file it under "upholding their oath"
to protect the constitution and the rule of law...

:mad:
BHN

[dajoki]

13. They have never given "the rule of law" a second thought n/t

[A wise Man]

19. You're talking about republicans here...

...a bunch of ignorant trolls that lack the ability to use common sense. These les than human things are led by their own stupidity, selfishness, Greed, hypocrisy, no consciousness of right and wrong and corporate masters. To them 1+1=11 and not 2

[radfringe]

16. GOPers denounces political stunt

GOPers denounces political stunt
by having a political stunt of their own...

after berating the House Majority for Political Grandstanding, Bonehead led the GOP minority out to the house steps where microphones conveniently and magically appeared

[DFW]

17. to defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

This is what many office holders have to swear to before assuming their
official responsibilities.

Obviously, the House Republicans think the responsibility to Cheneybush
is greater than their responsibility to their country or the people they
represent. I fervently hope that we are not the only ones to point out the
error in their stance.

[KharmaTrain]

18. It's About Time...

For those of us who watched the "debate" yesterday regarding the Bolton and Meiers subpoenas, this was the best thing the GOOP had done in a long time. Too bad they came back! What a bunch of hypocrites...and these morons don't even care. The GOOP leadership are a bunch of publicity-seeking assclowns. Too bad our beloved corporate media couldn't take some of the crap said during that debate and do a little reasearch and find sound bites from these same fuksticks that went 180 degrees in the opposite way just a year ago.

I'm very proud of the Democrats finally doing something...passing those subpoenas (now on to the courts) and then telling boooosh to take his fearmongering and telcom immunity and stick it! I hope booooshie decides to delay or even postpone his trip to Africa...haven't those people suffered enough?

Here's hoping this FISA bullshit gets delayed, stonewalled or downright killed over the next couple months...and after 1-20-09, let the lawsuits flow.