Comments on: Sara Taylor, Part IV

By: marshen

marshen — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:57:20 +0000

I watched this hearing on C-SPAN and it was a joke. If Bush is invoking executive priveledge so none of the administration officials can answer questions under oath, what’s the point of having them at all? Senators Leahy and Schumer are waisting time. They said over and over during the hearing that Sara Taylor is not the one that should be testifying but it was Karl Rove who should be sitting on that seat. If the next step is to send it to the courts then get on with it. We want the right (guilty) people to be answering those few critical questions that will get to the bottom of this case about the firing of the US attorneys. The democrats look and act like complete fools holding these hearings pretending to be doing meaningful investigation for the cameras but it’s just another example of Gerorge, Karl, and Dick thumbing their noses at the democrats et all just like with the Libby pardon. It was a waste of three hours watching that hearing. It made me furious watching the pathetic and mannerly respectful Leahy and Schumer asking question after unanswered question from Taylor. After she refused to answer the first question because of executive privledge, they should have shut down that hearing immediately and called for an immediate news conference and told the american people what the hell is going on and how the Bush administration is obstructing justice once again to keep the truth from being known.

By: Steve Pordon

Steve Pordon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:21:29 +0000

“Taylor says that she is not aware of [GWB’s] involvement at all.”

Wow. So unless I’m mistaken, every single person to testify on the issue has said that the fuckup-in-chief was totally in the dark on the subject…yet “[US Attorneys] serve at the pleasure of the President.”

Has anyone on any of these committees asked the people testifying how that phrase could possibly have any relevance, given that Bush was too busy picking his nose to pay attention to the USAs?

By: Brion Emde

Brion Emde — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:17:53 +0000

It strikes me that the very concept that an oath to the president would trump the oath to uphold the law and Constitution, is treasonous.

By: Fairfax

Fairfax — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:26:05 +0000

Well, I guess Nobody, IDidn’t, and NotMe are the culprits.

They’re the ones who drew-up the list of USAs to be fired.

Whew! For awhile there I thought maybe we had a government that thought it was above the law.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:01:55 +0000

I find this all depressing. The Dems seem completely ineffectual, even with no Rethugs in the room except Specter.

By: Waiting in Texas

Waiting in Texas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:47:09 +0000

WTF is it with the Bush Adm hiring these Elle Woods aka Legally Blonde early thirites somethings, who, when they testify, appear to be dumb as shi*!

I tell you - this was all about stealing the 2008 elections.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:38:54 +0000

Is it just me, or did Sara Taylor comes across as a petulant thug, as uncurious and arrogant as her boss, with about the same IQ?

She is wrong, of course, on the law, as is Harriet Miers. Marty Lederman lays this out nicely at balkin.blogspot.com. Congress has issued Taylor a valid subpoena; the refusal to comply with it is a federal crime. She can only refuse to testify if she is legally compelled not to. A “pretty please” letter from Fred Fielding doesn’t cut it. It takes a court order.

There isn’t one, presumably because obtaining it would require Bush to defend his claims in federal court. Should a federal judge such as, oh, Reggie Walton, not agree with his claims, Pandora’s Box begins to open.

If Congress wonders why its popularity continues to fall, it is not because they have tried too much, it is because they have done too little. Take the gloves off and confront this administration’s wrongdoing. It should also do the same within its own ranks, starting with implementing and enforcing transparent ethics rules.

By: cosmosis

cosmosis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:52:27 +0000

One more thing Bush has demonstrated: having an Ivy League education is no more prestigious than one from Poison Ivy State.

By: Via

Via — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:39:10 +0000

Sorry to hear about the death of Mrs. Johnson.

Bush will certainly be happy for the distraction.

By: AlphaLiberal

AlphaLiberal — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:31:49 +0000

Is it me or does she look like Michael J Hall in that picture?