Originally Posted by host

Cynthetiq and ace give carte blanche to the administration's strategy of simply stonewalling all investigation and attempted oversight with bogus, blanket claims of executive immunity, until they run out the clock.

In this way of responding to official misconduct, if a change in congressional control does not change to the opposition party sooner than before the congressional election immediately preceding the end of a president's tenure, the two year time limit will encourage all future executives to withhold cooperation with attempts at legislative branch oversight, and instead, refuse all cooperation, claim blanket executive immunity, and attempt to run out the clock.

It is all in the interest of "moving on".....moving on....to what? To the next Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq invasion, secret executive order, signing statement, blanket claim of presidential immunity, or deliberate destruction of inter-office white house message files?

Do you think undercover operatives at the CIA have no curiousity, and no effect on their commitment to their jobs, concerning what McClellan wrote about Bush admitting to deliberately declassiying details of Plame's CIA employment, for political purposes?

Why....why do you want to "move forward" with nothing resolved? Should we "move forward", by dropping the long delayed NIST commitment to report on the reason for the collapse of the 47 stories tall, WTC 7 building?

Should Pat Tillman's mom be told to "GFH", in response to her demands that those who covered up the circumstances of here son's death, be held accountable? How about all of the families of US soldiers KIA in Iraq, should they pursue a determination as to the validity of Scott McClellan's "unnecessary war" statement....or do your views.....you with nothing lost, no empty seat at your dinner table..... your wish to "move on"....do you prevail?

dc_dux, isn't the list of "reforms" that you posted, a list of responses unique to the actions of an administration with no regard for the law? They've dreamed up all of these unprecedented acts and procedures that caused congress to respond with your list of remedies. Isn't the obvious solution, in response to a rogue administration that uses signing statements in place of vetoes, and twists FISA, FOIA, etc....etc.... to draw up articles of impeachment, and keep removing scoundrel executives from office until an executive is seated who will act as others have, before this list of reforms was found to be necessary to implement?

Or, could they simply refuse to appropriate funds for the continued operation of the law breaking branch, unless it agrees to conform, and then does?

Originally Posted by ratbastid

Denial: it ain't just a river in Egypt.