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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors.

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tkyrchncs
Dec. 13, 2007, 4:17 p.m.
Maybe the White House steps would do in place of a wall.
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injest
Dec. 14, 2007, 4:01 a.m.
"the president may ultimately prevail since"
Ultimately the President will prevail because there is NO possibility the president did anything wrong when he REPLACED POLITICALLY US attorneys.
The President, any President can replace any or all US attorneys at any time without cause.
The last press replaced all US attorneys at the start of his 1st term and 30 more through out both terms.
And yes the 30 he replaced were also US attorneys he had appointed to their
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Blackacereturn
Dec. 14, 2007, 8:34 a.m.
This is the start of things to come, I think all we need is to get one person who are willing to talk and this entire house of cards will come crashing down!
They are more criminals in this whitehouse than all others combine. These people should all be in jail!
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djn3nunez3
Dec. 14, 2007, 1:15 p.m.
....I like gays even less than yesterday!
Well you know what they say about someone who protests too much.
Latent in that little closet of yours huh snippy?
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dandt1612
Dec. 13, 2007, 4:29 p.m.
Good! Now I'd like to see some justice done. But I'm sure that Bush and his gang will do all they can to protect these thugs.

Wow, one more year of this affliction in the white house. I pray our country can take it. God only knows what this bunch of crooks have up their sleeves. I hope that someday everyone in this administration pays for what they have done to this country.
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Endoscopy
Dec. 13, 2007, 4:46 p.m.
Seems to me these kind of things happened under Clinton and a few other presidents. It amounts to a lot of noise signifying nothing. They are under presidential privilege and it takes courts to remove that. Won't work since the people in question can be fired for having the wrong colored eyes.
This whole mess is just trumped up nonsense to try and embarrass the president and give nut jobs something to talk about.
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1-2-Oscar
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:26 p.m.
Step 1--The Senate Judiciary Committee, seeking to make political hay from the firing of US Attorneys, subpoenas records and individuals from the White House.
Step 2--The President refuses to turn over records, citing "Executive Privilege," as has every President since the House of Representatives demanded G. Washington's records of the negotiations leading to Jay's Treaty. The President's staff members also refuse to testify.
Step 3--Thinking that there may STILL some political advantage to be gained, Sen. Leahy and the Democratic majority on the Committee issue Contempt Citations against two of the President's most high-profile staff members.
Step 4--The federal courts, ruling as they have always ruled in such cases, throw out the contempt charges.
Result--Nothing has changed except that more of my money has been wasted by posturing politicians.
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cloud15
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:35 p.m.
I still fail to see why the firings were such a big deal...whether they were politically charged or not it is within the rights of the president to fire them for whatever reason he wishes.
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Klarissa
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:51 p.m.
It is the end of the year, and a lot of legislation waiting to be passed, and the Democrats go political so that they can get their pork bills through.
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joeblowe
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:51 p.m.
OK - they are in contempt. Are they locked up, like they do on Boston Legal?
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aceofspades1
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:55 p.m.
`From an administration that has held the American citizenry in contempt for 7 years, the serving up of 2 lackies is not much recompense
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Klarissa
Dec. 13, 2007, 5:56 p.m.
What the dems are really worried about is:
"Republicans retained two House seats in special elections Tuesday, including a hotly contested Ohio race".
The dems might want to stop wasting their time on people who will be out of office soon, and concentrate on finding someone they can support. I don't see that Hill/Bill or Obama are great favorites.
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david_nwpa
Dec. 13, 2007, 9:05 p.m.
If Rove and the other White House lackeys do not serve time for their role in the scandals ranging from the Energy fix in Cheney's office, to Plamegate, to the Enron energy theft scandal, to Iraq, then Bush would have no one even remotely close to pardoning at the last minute of his term.
Once Cheney and Bush leave office, who will be left to pardon them?
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buddyb
Dec. 13, 2007, 10:15 p.m.
The whole GW Administration should be put on trial for contempt of humanity. EOM
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cushi
Dec. 14, 2007, 10 a.m.
Sad statement, but, God help us, probably true.
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tiredofwhiners
Dec. 14, 2007, 5:07 a.m.
Another useless politically motivated probe that nobody except the Dems care about. I look at the good side. While they are wasting time having their stupid hearings they have less time to pass more useless stupid laws.
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hyperbola
Dec. 14, 2007, 6:52 a.m.
Seems that we need to re-do certain interpretations of our constitution.
There is NOTHING in the constitution that says the president has executive privilege to keep secrets from Congress. There is no good reason, beyond corruption, to have any such executive privilege. Americans should be entitled to know completely and fully what the president does. DO AWAY with executive privilege.
There is NOTHING in the constitution that says the president should be able to use federal prosecutors for political witch hunts. There is nothing that says the president should be able to fire those who do not kowtow to the political witchhunts. Lets replace the system of appointments with one in which the president may suggest prosecutors, but Congress appoints them and they need not be from those suggested by the president.
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Ruggaboo
Dec. 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.
John Bolten is the kind of stand up man, pandering milk toast, libertine bitches can only dream of becoming. He stood tall at the UN and called out the corrupt, beleagured criminals at it's helm. He called them on their assualt on guns and pathetic stance against terrorism and Iran.
In todays, greasy little leftist peabrain, nothing is worth fighting for except a Godless, third-world communal America.
Is it any wonder this crappy site got washed off the frontpage into the dustbin of internet creeps and crackpots...
much like the daily Kossack kat-turds, ScareAmerica and MoveOn.lame???
Hey...your intense self loathing and hatred for all things American is again showing like some tattered old slip on grandma's vericose legs.
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panzerv
Dec. 14, 2007, 8:33 a.m.
Some food for thought..."Zietgeist-the movie" on youtube. It's worth the price of the popcorn. Peace
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getreal1
Dec. 14, 2007, 10 a.m.
Yes, yes, yes! I hope they just don't stop there.
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simonsez
Dec. 14, 2007, 1:13 p.m.
These shallow and hollow vendettas that the dems in Congress keep pursuing are going to blow up in their faces.