Bush Advised to "Lawyer Up" In Case Dems Take House

[AtomicKitten]

Time: Presidential adviser wants Bush to 'beef up' White House Counsel's office fearing possible Dem-controlled House probes

Ron Brynaert
Published: Sunday July 23, 2006

An adviser to President George W. Bush wants the White House Counsel's office to be "beef up" in case a possibly Democratic controlled House pursues a "tangle of investigations," according to a Time Magazine web exclusive.

Near the end of an article about how "the crisis in Lebanon has dragged the Administration into the role of potential peacemaker," Time's Mike Allen reports that the Administration's "outlook" for the midterm elections reads "ominous" for the Republican Party and for President Bush.

"As for Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections," writes Allen for Time.

"Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue," Allen continues.

more at http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Time_Presidential_adviser_wants_Bush_to_0723.html

[bluestateguy]

1. In the event that that does happen

then the House should be turned into a prosecutor's office, doing nothing but investigations and issuing subpoenas for the next two years.

Six years of official cover ups and scandals means that there is a lot of ground to cover, and time can't be wasted.

[Warpy]

4. Although I would rather a Democratic Congress

do the job of overturning every bit of anti citizen legislation this corrupt party has passed, I fear they may have no choice.

This administration has to go.

[AtomicKitten]

5. there must be a reckoning

they must be held accountable for their many crimes

[wakeme2008]

2. LOL Well we all knew he was not going to the Ranch and see what

waiting for him there...

"As for Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections," writes Allen for Time.

[snowbear]

3. Bush advised to "Liquor Up" in case Dems win House....

It's getting late, and that's how I read your thread title at first glance..

[tanyev]

6. Oh those bad, bad Democrats.

How dare they suggest that they might start exercising oversight powers!

[NJCher]

7. Heh

This is great news. Makes my day.

bush couldn't give up his vacation in August of 2001 so the government could deal with terrorist attacks on the WTC, but if it looks like his party is going to lose and he'll be under investigation, he'll do it.

What a sense of values. Whatta' guy!




Cher

[MasonJar]

8. He knows that Cindy will be there.