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By Tutor on Jul 12, 2007 in Featured, Rants

Way back when … when the Earth was green, Kings and Lords and those in “power”, took and did as they wished and weren’t ever brought to the carpet about their actions. One of the main stays of this country, whose motto was at one time, Land of the Free (instead of Nation of Law), was that nobody was above the law. For those that love the country for what it was the ability for those in power to not acknowledge they are equal to those not in power this is a slap in the face even for that new ideal of this country…

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House Judiciary Subpanel Calls Bush Executive Privilege Claim on Miers Out of Order

Thursday, July 12, 2007

WASHINGTON — A House panel cleared the way Thursday for contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she obeyed President Bush and skipped a hearing on the firings of federal prosecutors.

Addressing the empty chair where Miers had been subpoenaed to testify, Rep. Linda Sanchez ruled out of order Bush’s executive privilege claim that his former advisers are immune from being summoned before Congress.

While in the most extreme of cases and under the most dire of circumstances I may see how information may be withheld from the public at large, but to stifle information to the nation at large is not what most Americans would consider the proper use of executive privilege. This type of abuse of governmental power boards on subversion. The representatives of the nations population (even if I normally consider them a poor excuse) are being ignored by the President.
It is no wonder that the country is changing, and not for the better. Open boarders, pediophiles and child molesters having rights. As the nation goes down the tubes does the rules that we all have to abide by need to be ignored also?

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  2. By Tutor on Jul 28, 2007 | Reply

    As a folow up…
    WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted contempt of Congress citations Wednesday against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and President Bush’s former legal counselor, Harriet Miers.

    The 22-17 party-line vote — which would sanction for pair for failure to comply with subpoenas on the firings of several federal prosecutors — advanced the citation to the full House.

    A senior Democratic official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the House itself likely would take up the citations after Congress’ August recess. The official declined to speak on the record because no date had been set for the House vote.

    Committee Chairman John Conyers said the panel had nothing to lose by advancing the citations because it could not allow presidential aides to flout Congress’ authority. Republicans warned that a contempt citation would lose in federal court even if it got that far.

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