Republicans Wither Under Weight of Democratic Investigations

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Love the headline!! --from Fox website! Wither AWAY!!!!!!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273077,00.html

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Republicans Wither Under Weight of Democratic Investigations

Thursday, May 17, 2007

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON — Republicans are getting fed up with what they call “fishing expeditions” and hearings to nowhere conducted by majority Democrats thriving in their newfound oversight authority.

Annoyed by ongoing inquiries into everything from the firing of eight U.S. attorneys to the Bush administration’s 2003 charges that Iraq had tried to purchase yellowcake uranium in Niger, Republicans inside and outside Congress say Democrats have gone overboard.

“We understand that the Congress has a role to play, which is oversight over the Executive Branch,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said during a recent press briefing. However, “I do think there is a difference between oversight and overreaching.”

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"The list of accusations has mushroomed, but the evidence of wrongdoing has not," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said at the most recent hearing. "If there are no fish in this lake, we should reel in our lines of questions, dock our empty boat and turn to more pressing issues."

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1. Bingo to Bob Barr:

Former Rep. Bob Barr, who served as a Republican from Georgia but is now libertarian, said Democrats wouldn't have as much steam if the GOP had been responsible during the first six years of the Bush administration.

“The real thing to keep in perspective is that the Bush administration has been basically on a oversight holiday since it took over in 2001," Barr said. "The Congress under Republican control conducted absolutely no meaningful oversight. Any oversight investigations by the Democrats are going to seem like an awful lot, when it really isn’t."

After Emanuel decried the administration, Perino responded swiftly, questioning whether the Democratic investigations are hiding a lack of progress on other legislative items the party promised to pursue when it took over earlier this year.

“I think what we have going on here is that the 100-hour congressional agenda is faltering, and in that vacuum, that they’ve decided to fall back on a tried and true tactic of theirs, which is creating grand conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact,” said Perino.

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2. Oh man, I'm agreeing with Bob Barr. I need to go back to bed. nt

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3. Wow, me agreeing with bob barr, darling this might be the big one

He is right, if bush had not been on "oversight holiday" for six years there wouldn't be as much concentrated oversight today. Hell, if the party wasn't a gang of fucking morally bankrupt criminals there might not be need for any oversight at all. Republicans weren't whining about the lack of oversight during those years were they??? It sucks to high heaven to be a conservative in America today.

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7. No KIDDING. There are icicles in Hell again today. I, too, am agreeing

with bob barr - and wholeheartedly, too.

But he just happens to be correct about this.

This is all overflow as from a stopped-up toilet. If the proper plumbing had been done early-on, this all would have been caught and dealt with in a manner in which they could have minimized the damage and come out looking like the reasonable, honest, nonpartisan adults they claimed so loudly adn obnoxiously to be back at the end of 2000 and the start of 2001. They swept it all under the rug and then moved all the furniture in on top of it so nothing could be seen or heard underneath, and they sat on it til this past January, when the Dems formally took over and checks and balances could finally be rescued from the six-year hostage hold.

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4. they doth protest too much, methinks.

hey! don't look into this stuff, or we'll have to make Bush pardon everyone at the end of his term just like his dad did with the Iran-Contra drugs/arms dealings with terrorists. er...

I've been researching that and some other things recently, and I have to wonder why these folks not only have jobs but aren't rotting in jail somewhere for treason. Oh that's right; they're above the law. Sorry. I forgot.

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5. They haven't seen anything yet

Just wait for the indictments

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6. When you set the standards impossibly high,

you should also be able to meet the standards you set ...