Congress Catches Up With the Rest of America; Holds White House in Contempt

[Richardo]

...is how I would have written the headline.

(Note: I wrote this for a RW blog I like to poke)


The 223-32 vote Thursday targeted presidential chief of staff "Oshkosh B'Josh" Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet "One of the Best Arguments Ever for the 'Advise and Consent' Clause in Article 2" Miers. The citations charge Miers with failing to testify and accuse her and Bolten of refusing Congress' demands for documents related to the 2006-2007 firings.

Wait a sec, how could that vote have been so lopsided? Well, faced with the awkward choice of 1) issuing a contempt citation against a Republican Executive Branch that ignored a lawful Congressional subpoena, or b) furthering the irrelevance of their own jobs in a purportedly co-equal branch of government, most of the Republicans bravely walked out of the House chamber before the vote.

But don't worry, Imperial Presidency fans, it's all good: It's up to the US Attorney for the District of Columbia to enforce the citation. You know, the Justice Department. And who do they work for again? Yikes.