Bush to Congress: F@#k You!
Liberalgeek blogged this yesterday, but my take is saddness.
It is sad to me that my Republican friends* care so little about our history and traditions that they can, even today, they can defend Bush’s illegal and unAmerican eavesdropping operations on the grounds that it promotes “security”.
Now it is official: Bush has told Congress (ie you & me) to get lost over those subpeonas:
President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor.
I think at this point we can all agree that the Bush Administration is interested in “security” only as a word that can be used for PR purposes in their drive to create and consolidate extra-constitutional powers for the President and Vice President.
*TPN being the exception.
You have friends?
1. This has nothing to do with security.
2. The “investigation” into the firing of the prosecutors seems at least as political as their firing.
3. The “investigation” also seems about as useful as the annual (or semi-annual) “investigation” into gas prices every couple months.
1. This has nothing to do with security.
If that is true and you had one patriotic bone in your body you could not type items 2 and 3.
When is Senator Leahy going to subpoena Richard Armitage for leaking the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame to Bob Novak?
What? Care to explain that reasoning, compadre?
My comment is directed at Jason.
isn’t funny that big brother wants to us to trust them and fill us with the mentality that if we have nothing to hide we shouldn’t worry…
but when the shoe is on the other foot, they don’t release jack shit.
Ryan,
it has everything to do with security actually. Your security and mine. But that it is out of scope for you I guess.
I don’t see this as anything more than a political football on both sides.