The Senate has made it its goal to find out what really happened with the USA’s after no one at Justice could get the story straight. They immunized Goodling, who probably did break the law (she admitted she crossed the line), and have not threatened any of the witnesses with a perjury rap. I realize you believe that its just partisanship, but you do know that millions of WH e-mails are missing and many of the WH staff used accounts at the RNC to hide their correspondence.

Bush has the right to fire appointees but not if its political interference with an ongoing case.

Nixon then contacted the Solicitor General, Robert Bork, and ordered him as acting head of the Justice Department to fire Cox. Richardson and Ruckelshaus had both personally assured the congressional committee overseeing the special prosecutor investigation that they would not interfere – Bork had made no such assurance to the committee. Thus, Bork complied with Nixon’s order and fired Cox. Incidentally, the White House claimed to have fired Ruckelshaus, but as the Washington Post article written the next day pointed out “The letter from the President to Bork also said Ruckelshaus resigned.”

Considering the President can fire political appointees for any reasons, then why is the Senate spending time of the firings? Because it creates good television and creates the perjury trap for every Republicans who testifies. The perjury trap is a clear message to Republicans to get out of town and never come back.

I doubt that anyone in the a Clinton or Obama administration will have to hire an attorney before they testify before a Democratic Party dominate senate.

That is why all the talk about oversight is nonsense and just political theater.

I don’t think that’s the point of these hearings SD. These “public servants” obviously are sticking it to Congress, and have no intention of providing candid testimony. Gonzales’ performance was a travesty that only Bush can defend-why is he still at Justice?

The immigration bill is DOA and Reid isn’t going to waste any more of the Senate’s time on it. Rush, Sean and Bill’0 and the rest of the AM talk crowd made sure that the bill would never see the light of day. Don’t blame the Democrats for that one- they were ready to work with Bush.

Every committee in the senate should have had good reasons to hold hearings on the immigration bill. The Judiciary Committee should have been looking at the effects on crime, federal prisons, and law enforcement. Just Democratic Senator Harry Reid refuse to let any committee have hearings on the immigration bill claiming that there just was not enough time.

Yet, the Senate definitely has time to ensure that no conservative will ever want to work in Washington, DC again which is really the point of the hearings, isn’t it?

There hearings are just another expression that the Democrats know that they are going to quickly become the one dominate political party that that their future White House staffers will have absolutely nothing to fear for the so-called oversight of a Democratic lead Congress.

At least when the Democrats control all branches of the government the Senate will not have time for this type of hearing either but I doubt if they will make time for immigration bill hearings.

Above the law?
In a broadly worded legal opinion, the Justice Department has concluded that President Bush’s former top lawyer, and possibly other senior White House officials, can ignore subpoenas from Congress to testify about the firings of…