Holding Mr. Rove in Contempt

[groovedaddy]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is deciding what matters should get priority in the short time left before Congress adjourns this month. Her list must include a vote to hold Karl Rove in contempt for his lawless decision to defy a Congressional subpoena to testify about the United States attorneys scandal. There is a vital national interest in getting to the bottom of this matter — and in not allowing Congress’s authority to be undermined.

It has been nearly two years since Congress first began asking questions about the firing of nine United States attorneys, who appear to have been removed for partisan political reasons. Mr. Rove may have been directly involved in these possibly illegal firings, but he has not told Congress what he knows. In defiance of a legally binding subpoena, he refused this summer to appear before the House Judiciary Committee.

Congress’s investigation of the United States attorneys matter is of the utmost importance. It now seems clear that the Justice Department under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales operated as a partisan political actor, using its prosecutorial authority to help the party in power win elections. That was a grave abuse, which undermined American democracy.

There are real victims in this scandal. Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, was sentenced to seven years in prison as a result of a prosecution that appears to have been politically motivated. Mr. Siegelman is free pending an appeal, but he has already served part of the sentence and could end up returning to prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17wed2.html?th&emc=th

[Bennyboy]

1. I wrote Speaker Pelosi just now....

and told her that I would like to see Rove held in contempt.

[CitizenPatriot]

2. there is also the simple issue

that when lawlessness prevails publicly, our government loses any authority to maintain leadership of the people. You can't have politicians evading subpoenas for precisely this reason. Soon, the average American will be questioning this government's right to subpoena the average american and rightly so. I am no lawyer, but clearly they are setting up a house of cards here. Already we have witnesses in troopergate ignoring subpoenas.

As an american citizen, I am really beginning to question the moral and legal authority of this government and my contribution to it as a taxpayer. It is increasingly evident that fascism is taking root here and I want no further part in supporting such evil. I fear these dark times will be looked back upon with contempt for the people who seemingly sat complacently by while criminals took over our government and instigated holy wars and missions to "reform the country", to quote Palin.

[Left Brain]

3. It irritates the HELL out of me

that the man has OpEd articles published in Newsweek and that he is a paid mouthpiece throughout the media. SHAME on all of them for employing the SOB.

I'm on the phone to Pelosi's office now.

[groovedaddy]

4. Rove should be in jail NOW!!! n.t

[classysassy]

5. Teflon Rove

nothing sticks to him.Nancy you need a roll of steelwool to clean that thug.