White House assails lawmakers over contempt charges

[helderheid]

The White House lashed out Wednesday at "pathetic" lawmakers on a key committee for approving rare contempt of Congress charges as a potentially serious constitutional showdown escalated.

"What you have right now is partisanship on Capitol Hill that quite often boils down to insults, insinuations, inquisitions and investigations," spokesman Tony Snow said after the party-line vote.

"In our view, this is pathetic," Snow said as the White House mounted a fierce counter-offensive in the wake of the House Judiciary Committee's charges against top advisers to US President George W. Bush.

The committee voted 22-17 to send the contempt citations against White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former legal counsel Harriet Miers to the full House of Representatives, controlled by Bush's Democratic foes.

The move significantly raised the stakes in a legal row between lawmakers and Bush over the firings of a group of at least eight federal prosecutors. Critics say the lawyers were sacked for political reasons.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Shorrter White House: I know you are but what am I? Wah!

[Donnachaidh]

2. Tony -- you're sounding shrill dude.

Perhaps we need to send a truck of Depends to the WH?

[soothsayer]

3. Pathetic White House Lashes Out at the Rule of Law

[peacetalksforall]

4. Think they have reacted in a dramatic way? What does it mean?

Can someone with some extra time - keep track of Republicans who join the WH in ridiculing Congress - the people who lead us? Whether working for corporate tv networks, blogs, AIE, AIPAC, papers, or in a citizen paid government job - make a note - these will be the hard core that exceeds hard.

Listin for talking points - do they say the Snow's choice of pathetic is correct? Or do they use a parallel word?

Who are they and what are they saying.

Pathetic is as pathetic does.

Our country is in a dire straits. But, they call our Congress pathetic.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Dang de dang so what they did the first SIX YEARS of bush's stealth

campaign, cause he sure didn't win the election was not partisan. Well they are so used to lying they think every time they say something people believe them, got news for them. This country is wide awake and they see bush and his henchmen...a lot of them for the first time.