Attention Whore George Bush defies Subpoena again

[mikey]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/....ap/index.html


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[PressCoverage]

*scream*

[Holy Diver]

Honestly Mikey....

This is the funniest post title of the day.

Kudos to you!

[QuiGon]

Originally Posted by mikey

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/....ap/index.html


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Ah yes... once again, the sincerest form of flattery... you do this quite regularly, Mikey... it's starting to make me blush...

[patsfan13]

Great the WH counsel ie Bush's attorney doesn't want to testify about her priviliged conversations with her client.

Anyone ever hear about attorney client privilege?

[Patriot_in_NY]

IT was actually a pretty shrewd move by the DEMS. Just about every president would have done the exact same thing in this case. In that position you have to solicit "unabridged" advice and you must depend on a certain measure of candidness that only confidentiality brings. Undermining that by allowing them to testify would set a terrible precedent going forward. Future advice would always be given with a dose of "will I have to answer to this later" and may alter it. Not that that is altogether bad, but you can understand why the president (any president) would want to protect it.

They knew that he would take that stand, it's a no brainier. They pushed it already knowing how he'd respond and now he's backed into the corner on it, knowing it looks as if he "has something to hide". Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't........... but this was a something everyone already knew was coming like 2 months ago.

It's politics, that's all. Smooth move by the dems. Although, I have to say, if it was reversed, Repubs would have done the same. Actually, you can even take out the dems/repub aspect and call it a Exec/Legislative branch pissing match. A lot of it is that too.

[Pujo]

Originally Posted by QuiGon

Ah yes... once again, the sincerest form of flattery... you do this quite regularly, Mikey... it's starting to make me blush...

Can't deny a man his credit, you do have very parody-worthy things to say.

[DarrylS]

Wasn't Harriet Myers, the head of the draft board that helped young George avoid Viet Nam?? Would like to get her stoned and drunk, betcha she would have some stories to tell..

[sdaniels7114]

Its hard to say exactly what the admin is pushing for here. Obviously there is something to both the executive privilege and the privilege that exists between a person accused of a crime and that person's lawyer(Miers was Bush's personal attorney at one point); but to say that she can tell Congress to 'piss off' and just not show up might be grounds to toss her in jail. Bush ordering her to do so is probably a crime all by itself. The two privileges I mentioned are limited and she most definitely has to testify if the questions are outside those limits, and Bush's people know that. This is why they 'allowed' the blond chick to testify yesterday. So either Bush's order is just a negotiating tactic designed to get Congress to leave certain topics out of the questioning or he's afraid that Miers isn't bright enough to testify right.

[patsfan13]

Originally Posted by sdaniels7114

Its hard to say exactly what the admin is pushing for here. Obviously there is something to both the executive privilege and the privilege that exists between a person accused of a crime and that person's lawyer(Miers was Bush's personal attorney at one point); but to say that she can tell Congress to 'piss off' and just not show up might be grounds to toss her in jail. Bush ordering her to do so is probably a crime all by itself. The two privileges I mentioned are limited and she most definitely has to testify if the questions are outside those limits, and Bush's people know that. This is why they 'allowed' the blond chick to testify yesterday. So either Bush's order is just a negotiating tactic designed to get Congress to leave certain topics out of the questioning or he's afraid that Miers isn't bright enough to testify right.

UH Bush isn't being accused of a crime here. What he did was legal even the idiot senators admit this.