Buried by a number of other things today, we refer you to Paul Kiel’s coverage with a note that Harry Reid’s Senate has yet to hold a floor vote on similar contempt citations against Karl Rove and Josh Bolten, as recommended to him by a bi-partisan Senate Judiciary Committee vote last December…
So now the ball’s in Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s court. He’s expected to decline to enforce the citation of contempt, since both Bolten and Miers declined to testify as a result of an assertion of executive privilege.
The resolution included both a criminal contempt citation and the authorization for the House Judiciary Committee to sue the White House if Mukasey refuses to enforce the citation. You can read those here.
Update: Here’s the final tally.
UPDATE: Our favorite House member of late, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), speaks in favor of the contempt resolution for a minute and a half. Video at right, full statement below…
Not since Watergate…Not since Watergate has a President so openly disregarded the will of Congress. Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers have blatantly ignored Congressional subpoenas, thumbing their nose at Congress and our obligation of legitimate oversight. The power of the Congressional subpoena safeguards our liberty. It protects against an all-powerful President. The Constitution demands that we hold these renegade officials in contempt of Congress. Thank you Madame Chair, Madame Speaker.
It is more than that. I watched it develop every second of the minute, and every minute of each hour.
The full import of the passage today includes the fact that the Chairman of the Judiciary can begin an action on his own, not dependent on the Department of
JusticeJust Us, and get relief in the courts.It was a brilliant end run by the House of Representatives of the United States around the obviously fascist Muckassy.
We must back the House because, as was said in the debate, we are deep into the overthrow of democracy in these United States.
It is just very, very, very hard for all of us to believe. Screw belief, lets go on what we know, and we know something must be done.
One House committee also told preznit blush to f**k off:
(Raw Story). In the Senate, Kennedy also exposed the preznit blush for absurdities beyond the call of booty:
(A Freakin Men, emphasis added).
Meanwhile the MSM continues to jack off to Britney’s c**t.
Hmmm… Maybe the house will give Rosie O’Donnell the honer of cavity searching harriet miers. . .
Oh yeah JoJ that’s what has to be done … honer
Oops… Honor ~ No pun intended this time. I should know better having been introduced to full time employment 30 years ago honing parts. . .
This is my representative in Congress and he’s running against a a__hole democrat in November who’s pledge to spend a million dollars. If you want to help keep guys like Wexler in Congress, please contribute whatever you can to his campaign. G-D bless and may the force be with us!!!!