March 20, 2007


Galaxy cluster pic from here



This just in
Karl Rove and Harriet Miers will be "available for interviews" with congressional committees — but not for testimony under oath. Developing...

8 comments:

Undeniable Liberal said...

Bullshit! There is no option for a subpeona. Yeah i know i didn't spell it right. Constitutional crisis coming right up. Spelling crisis too.

shartheheretic said...

O Rly? Let's see what Leahy, et al. say about that...I only hope they have the balls to follow through. Is Feingold on that committee? We know he does...

shartheheretic said...

BTW, undeniable liberal...I love your commentary. You're from MI, right?

Me too. Originally. Now stuck in the god-awful red state of FL. :)

Anonymous said...

Shari, you know Schumer's in charge on this one, right? Adjust hopes accordingly.

Anonymous said...

Yeah i know i didn't spell it right.

you were close =)

Patrick Leahy as well as John Conyers WILL be issuing subpoenas...

ah...I love the smell of subpoenas in the morning =D

Anonymous said...

Update, folks: House Judiciary's subcommittee on Administration and Oversight (Oversight! Woohoo!) met this morning at 10:15, and less than a half-hour later the AP moved a news alert saying that the panel had approved subpoenas (by voice vote, but still) for Gonzalez, Miers and ex-Gonzalez chief of staff Kyle Sampson.

For those of you who haven't watched government officials testify since about 1987 or thereabouts, taking the Fifth generally begins with, "I must respectfully refuse to answer ... " The fun part is when they do that, like, 40 times in a row. Literally. Forth.

Anonymous said...

"Forty."

Anonymous said...

Correction: "Commercial and Administrative Law," not "administration and oversight."

Pardon my excitement. I'd thought oversight was extincter than the red-throated boobyhatch.