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The Election and Investigatory Powers of Congress
Topic Started: Nov 8 2006, 12:07 PM (488 Views)
Mikhailoh
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It is amazing, the level of hatred shown here for conservatives.
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JBryan
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Jack Frost
Nov 8 2006, 07:51 PM
Agreed. I would add that I predict the Democrats will use their subpeona power more judiciously than have the Republicans since 1994.







You mean like the real October Surprise? You remember, a guy named Gary Sikh writes a story about Vice Presidential candidate Bush flying over to Iran in an SR-71 Blackbird to do secret negotiations with Iranians to not release the hostages until after the election. The Democrats investigated that one. Never mind the fact that the whole thing was preposterous (an SR-71 is not a passenger plane. Only two seats and both of them require personnel competent in specific tasks) in the words of Tom Foley it had to be investigated because of the seriousness of the charge. Never mind the fact that there was not one shred of evidence to support it. That is just one of their flaky "investigations". Yes, the Democrats are always responsible with subpoena power.

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In fact, I will go WAY out on a limb and predict there will be no investigations of Presidential blow jobs.


I am glad to hear that but what is even more reassuring is that I am certain they will not balk at investigating perjury and subornation of perjury.

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The shadey financial dealings of W in his past -- the savings and loan debacle -- the "profits" in oil leases while everyone else was losing money -- well, I guess by the standards set by the Republicans, all that would be fair game.

I don't think that will happen.


If he bilked any S&Ls or payed hush money to the former Deputy Attorney General I hope they investigate it.

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Maybe a few timely and relevant investigations...say...how did we get into this Iraq mess?


That I can answer for you. Democrats voted for it and then fought it every inch of the way when it was politically expedient. It is hard to convince an enemy he is losing when the "loyal opposition" is bending over backwards to convince everyone else otherwise.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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ivorythumper
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Nov 8 2006, 03:47 PM

No we didn't learn our lesson from Nam. Nevershould havewent there inthe first place either.

Does that mean that we should never have gone there to free Kuwait?
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David Burton
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“Oh I should never have done it.”
“Well so what? You did it anyway.”
“Now what?”

I can tell you this much, only the radical fringe leftists will fill the airwaves and waste more money on “investigations.” The general public is sick and tired of investigations. In fact if the Dems get too shrill they will definitely get pushed back into the shadows in 2008. I’m going to bet that they wont let that happen. If I’m wrong then the lunatic fringe that the rabid left has always represented will earn them nothing in the future. Fortunately there are smarter and wiser people behind the scenes – who fund political campaigns – who see things differently. I told my GOP friends during the Clinton impeachment that trying to get a president on a sex scandal would never fly and they wouldn’t believe me. OK, so some on the right are incredibly naïve. Fine. I think by this time most of the really crazy people on the left are – discredited. We’ll see.
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Jack Frost
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Mikhailoh
Nov 8 2006, 11:07 PM
It is amazing, the level of hatred shown here for conservatives.

I AM a conservative. I am NOT a hawk.

jf

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QuirtEvans
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Jack Frost
Nov 8 2006, 08:00 PM
Mikhailoh
Nov 8 2006, 08:55 PM
And that will translate to what effect on the Commander In Chief?  Now that you have the opportuiunity to push the Democratic agenda, just exactly what is it regarding Iraq?

To be honest, I have not a clue.

I DO know that the idiots who got us into this mess are not capable of getting us out.

I have a lot of hope and faith in the Baker commission to look at the situation realistically--as it is today and not how the stupid neocons thought it would be--and come up with some practical recomendations. I am NOT a knee-jerk cut and run liberal, despite what Larry says.

Getting Rumsfeld out is a HUGE first and positive step towards embracing change and a real solution, messy and unsatisfactory as it will be.

I am not so arrogant as to think I know the answer. But I DO know stupidity when I see it.

jf

Best political jab of the week ... Bush drove the bus into a cul-de-sac, and now he's demanding that everyone else tell him how to get out.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Jolly
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Jack Frost
Nov 9 2006, 05:33 AM
Mikhailoh
Nov 8 2006, 11:07 PM
It is amazing, the level of hatred shown here for conservatives.

I AM a conservative. I am NOT a hawk.

jf

In all of your political pronouncements, I've not detected conservatism.

Prithee, why dost thou consider thyself a conservative?
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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JBryan
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Probably, because he thinks the Congress should tax us until the deficit disappears. Funny thing is that it will only make it bigger.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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