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Leahy Moves on Rove Contempt Citation
Karl Rove is gone, but not forgotten.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has scheduled a vote tomorrow on whether to issue contempt citations to Rove and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten for ignoring Congressional subpoenas from the U.S. attorneys investigation. Of course, Republicans might defer the vote for another week. But at the latest, the citations would be sent to the Senate floor next Thursday.
And then it's up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). His counterparts in the House leadership have delayed a vote for contempt citations against Harriet Miers and Bolten since July. We've got a question in to see whether Reid will be speedier. We'll let you know what we hear.
Update: A Reid aide responds that "after the Committee acts on this issue, Senator Reid will consult with Senator Leahy about how to move forward on it." Maybe things will be clearer next week.
And for those who didn't catch our interview with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) about the contempt citations earlier this week, check it out.
Comments (9)
P J Evans wrote on December 5, 2007 5:32 PM:Prediction: Reid will try to sit on this long enough for it to die.
Hope: Leahy and Whitehouse (and some of the other senators) should keep bringing it up, until it actually is voted on. (And with any luck, passed.) And Harry gets put into a job that he can handle.
JohnW1141 wrote on December 5, 2007 5:39 PM:Its seemed to me for quite some time now that the Dems want to run out the clock on any controversial moves on the Bush gang. They seem to be playing to the 08 elections.
Long Memory wrote on December 5, 2007 6:02 PM:As to running out the clock, it's not as if they're going to get to the bottom of any of this stuff in the next year anyway. In an election year, they're bound to be leery of actions that can so easily be branded "just politics." Not that I wouldn't like to see these Republicans having to spend money hand over fist on lawyers as Democrats had to do in the Clinton days.
Meah Bottoms wrote on December 5, 2007 8:48 PM:Why did the House rule out taking any action? Do they feel they do not have enough of an issue?
Roberta wrote on December 5, 2007 11:05 PM:I want contempt citations against the lot of them, but I'm feeling a little better about putting things off until Bush is out of office because of what's happening in Canada with Brian Mulroney.
Mulroney was Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993, and only now is a shady deal he was part of in 1993, when he'd stepped down as PM but was still in Parliament, coming fully to light (see Wikipedia's article on Mulroney, and the section entitled Airbus/Schreiber Affair for the details on this).
Mulroney's problems are just about "commissions" and influence peddling. The clock on the statute of limitations for the crimes of this Administration will start ticking when each crime is revealed. You know we're going to be finding out about more and more things after he's out of office, and then Bush, Cheney, Rove, Bolten, Miers, and the rest of the gang will have to face Congress or the courts, without the comfy blanket of executive privilege by force of office.
Al in Austex wrote on December 6, 2007 4:54 AM:Amen Roberta- a whole lot of this will wind up being handed out in indictments after bushCHENEY leave office -look whats happpening to ex Congressman Weldon.
Coonsey wrote on December 6, 2007 1:36 PM:But I stil believe that there's a better then even chance that at the very least articles of Impeachment will be filed against Cheney re the treason committed by outting a covert CIA official -that revelation did directly adversely impact our national security .
It's about time.
It's also time to Impeach the President AND his Vice President for LYING to American people about Iran not to mention all the lies before that.
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JohnW1141 wrote on December 5, 2007 5:39 PM:
Its seemed to me for quite some time now that the Dems want to run out the clock on any controversial moves on the Bush gang. They seem to be playing to the 08 elections.
****You hit it on the head.It's a stunt to then claim that they(Dem leadership) tried when Nov '08 comes around.A once upstanding country is not much better than a banana Republic.
CanDaemon wrote on December 6, 2007 11:15 PM:Just make sure W can't make it to that private jet he has waiting, ready to whisk him off to that land he bought in South America...