I agree as well with the underlying concern but not with the overexaggerated rhetoric.
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The point is we put these people in office to run the country, instead they are going to spend BILLIONS upon BILLIONS on hearings about Bush and abuse of power.... while those tax dollars could help the country in better ways, while they themselves could be actually working on bills that help the nation and the people and Bush could stop playing ego games and stop abusing his power.
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The oversight investigations will hardly cost BILLIONS and BILLIONS. The independent Whitewater investigation cost about $80 million and the numerous Congressional (mostly House Repub) investigations of Clinton cost about $15-20 million...so lets not get carried away. BTW, during those investigations, Clinton allowed 31 top White House officials to testify on 47 different occasions, including his Deputy Chief of Staff (same as Rove) and Counsel to the President (same as Harriet Myers). Nothing could be more in the interest of the American people than the restoration of Congressional oversight that had been MIA for six years.
The 110th Congress is capable of multi-tasking. While it fulfills its oversight responsibilities, it has and will continue to work on legislation that will help the country as well as restore the balance of power between the branches. One only need look at the first two months of the new Congress - minimum wage legislation, rollbacks of tax breaks and subisdies to big oil companies and replacing it with new tax breaks for renewable energy sources, restoration of the Freedom of Information Act, restoration of habeas corpus and the rule of law regarding prisoner treatment, Congressional ethics reform, Medicare prescription drug reform (to require price negotiation by pharmaceutical companies), a new stem cell research bill, homeland security measures (enhanced rail and chemical/nuclear facility security, first responder communications interoperability), and just this week, a bi-partisan bill to make immediate improvements in the treatment of wounded vets returning from Iraq.....not bad for 2 months work.
The question is how often Bush will veto.
THe only act that would further divide the country and really stop Congress from doing its business would be an impeachment investigation...unless or until there is a real "smoking gun".