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hisownpetard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:40 PM Original message |
It still infuriates me, every time I think of Harriet Miers - who was proposed for a seat on |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know how they get away with it |
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rudy23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Because the ultimate enforcement of those subpoenas requires impeachment, or a court battle, neither |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Or they can just enforce them on their own. |
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rudy23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Apparently that's off the table, too. Jeffersonian Democracy is off the table. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. dupe |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. You said it. These attacks on the Constitution should be |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Democrats have made their own subpeona power useless by their inaction. |
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hisownpetard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 02:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. But I think the penalties are discretionary, right? (I mean, the possibility of eventual |
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NotGivingUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-18-07 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's proof that we have no democracy...it's all a charade...to keep the masses in line. n/t |
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