What a joke. Reid asks Gonzales to investigate Foley??

[shance]

God help us.

We have cowering sheep at the helm.

Are there any real leaders left in America?

[burythehatchet]

1. WHy is that bad?

[nini]

3. I was wondering the same thing

:shrug:

[shance]

5. BTH, if you can't see why that's a problem,

then in all honesty, I can't help you see it.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. What do you suggest he should do?

Rather than just bitching, let us know what you think is the right course of action.

[shance]

11. How about an independent investigation?

Is that such a novel idea?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. By whom? n/t

[Arkana]

2. How can this be a bad thing?

If Gonzales refuses (which he will), then it'll be made pretty clear that he's just trying to help his buddies cover this up.

[truedelphi]

6. But will Gonzales refuse? Or will he simply

Take it on in a (oops - inadvertent pun warning) half-assed way

[shance]

8. Well now, that's a good point. ,

However, what they have done so often before is come to us, throw their hands up and say, well golly gee, they won't have an investigation so there's just nothing we can do. Our hands are just all tied up!

[ulysses]

4. what's the problem with that?

[proud patriot]

7. ummm , who else is he supposed to ask ?

:shrug:

[shance]

10. Someone who will grant a fair and equitable investigation.

:toast:

[Ecumenist]

13. And at this point ....

That would be....??? I think that this is designed to tie them up in an even more untenable situation than they are in presently.

[shance]

14. Here's a good suggestion:

Noladem posted in another thread:

"Why not just draft a resolution demanding the House expel anyone with knowledge who did not report it (Hastert, Reynolds, et al) and have the resolution call for the evidence to be turned over to the proper authorities for a criminal investigation, since the party in power has shown an inability to investigate itself."

[ProSense]

16. Who would pass this resolution?

Let's say on the off chance the Republicans voted for it, do you realize the Justice Department is the proper authorities?

[seabeyond]

15. dems cant win for losing with you, huh n/t

[KittyWampus]

18. Harry should have threatened to shoot Foley in the town square

[sendero]

17. I agree....

.... why not just ask Hastert to investigate.

For those who can't figure it out, Republican lackeys are not going to so ANY real investigating, period.

[seabeyond]

20. isnt that what pelosi did? isnt this just more? like

what we want from our dems. you know, make huge ass deals over everything?

[sendero]

21. A huge ass deal..

... would be asking for what they really don't want - an independent counsel investigation of the coverup. Pelosi is occasionally capable of a big-ass deal, Reid almost never.

Gonzolez isn't going to do SHIT, you know that, I know that and Reid knows that.

[pinto]

19. It's an appropriate call. That's the AG's job...Reid's right to remind him

regardless of Gonzales' response. Oversight is a day to day calling to account.

[Bluzmann57]

22. Who the hell else is he going to ask?

You need to get realistic here. Gonzalez is the AG of the USA and he sucks, but it is (supposedly) his job to investigate stuff like this. Reid has to go somewhere and this way, if Gonzalez turns Reid down it will appear that he may have something to hide.

[BlooInBloo]

23. So the FBI should also close up shop? More DU geniuses.

[liberaliraqvet26]

24. What other choice do we have?

I know its like the fox investagating the henhouse but what are our options?