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Title: Snow: Congress "Doesn't Have Oversight Ability"
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Published: Mar 22, 2007
Author: Paul Kiel
Post Date: 2007-03-22 14:01:12 by aristeides
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Views: 149
Comments: 15
Snow: Congress "Doesn't Have Oversight Ability" By Paul Kiel - March 22, 2007, 2:41 PM Constitutional scholar Tony Snow on ABC this morning: The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability. So what we’ve said is we’re going to reach out to you – we’ll give you every communication between the White House, the Justice Department, the Congress, anybody on the outside, any kind of communication that would indicate any kind of activity outside, and at the same time, we’ll make available to you any of the officiels you want to talk to …knowing full well that anything they said is still subject to legal scrutiny, and the members of Congress know that.
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#1. To: All (#0)
I wonder whose insight Snow was repeating. Cheney's? Addington's? Bush's?
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Somebody seems not to have told this to the U.S. Embassy in Germany: OVERSIGHT POWERS OF CONGRESS.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
One last piece of legal advice from Gonzales?
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No doubt......and just as legally sound as the Geneva Conventions having no jurisdiction. And that feeb gubmint can just hold people without cause and without trial--you know--just as however the liar in chief pleasures it.
Try and make me. "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
If Snow and the executive actually believe this, they need to be jailed, tried and shot. Since we can't vote them out, and they have begun to pass political power down to children (bush) and over to siblings (dole, clinton, gore), there is no other solution.
Jews and their pets - click me
He called the Geneva Conventions "quaint and obsolete." And so was Congressional oversight under the Republicans.
Oh.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
It's getting serious if he played the "for the children" card.
Well, it didn't work when he tried to play the "I'm a poor downtrodden minority who worked his way up" card with Congress the other day.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
I noticed that Hispanic stuff too.
I'm getting really impatient. CBS said within days, what's taking so long?
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Looks like they've gotten a CNN commentator to pick up on that line. Commentary: Gonzales' persecutors blinded by rage.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
I'm surprised he's lasted this long, but he probably has the goods on junior.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
see above
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
#2. To: All (#1)
#3. To: aristeides, bluedogtxn, MUDDOG, orangedog, SKYDRIFTER, rowdee, Brian S (#0)
The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability.
#4. To: robin (#3)
One last piece of legal advice from Gonzales?
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
#6. To: aristeides, all (#0)
#7. To: robin (#3)
One last piece of legal advice from Gonzales?
I've already said too much.
#8. To: MUDDOG (#7)
GONZALES: I’m not going to resign. I’m going to stay focused on protecting our kids. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done around the country. The department is responsible for protecting our kids, for making our neighborhoods safe, for protecting our country against attacks of terrorism, to going after gangs, going after drug dealers. I’m staying focussed on that.
#9. To: angle (#8)
I've already said too much.
#10. To: MUDDOG (#9)
#11. To: aristeides (#10)
I've already said too much.
#12. To: MUDDOG (#9)
It's getting serious if he played the "for the children" card.
#13. To: MUDDOG (#11)
#14. To: MUDDOG (#9)
#15. To: robin (#12)
what's taking so long?
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