Come on Chuck, stop screwing around.... you have the power to stop these people from thumbing their nose at congress... it's called Inherent Contempt... and it cannot be 'blocked' by the minority criminal party.

If they are going to lie, forget endlessly, not show up or hide behind George W. Bush's skirt, they can be imprisoned...immediately. So.. let's get it on! Stop the crimes upon crimes!

(from the Congressional Oversight Manual.. updated May 1, 2007)

Under the inherent contempt power, the individual is brought before the House

or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be

imprisoned. The purpose of the imprisonment or other sanction may be either

punitive or coercive. Thus, the witness can be imprisoned for a specified period of

time as punishment, or for an indefinite period (but not, at least in the case of the

House, beyond the adjournment of a session of the Congress) until he agrees to

comply. The inherent contempt power has been recognized by the Supreme Court

as inextricably related to Congress’s constitutionally-based power to investigate.20

Between 1795 and 1934 the House and Senate utilized the inherent contempt power

over 85 times, in most instances to obtain (successfully) testimony and/or documents.

The inherent contempt power has not been exercised by either House in over 70

years. This appears to be because it has been considered too cumbersome and time-

consuming to hold contempt trials at the bar of the offended chamber. Moreover,

some have argued that the procedure is ineffective because punishment can not

extend beyond Congress’s adjournment date.

Walter Shapiro:

Probably 95 percent of Salon readers violently disagree with you on Iraq. And that's probably a conservative estimate. Is there something that you could say to them so they could look back in, say, five years and say, 'You know, Joe Lieberman may have had a point'?....

Sir??...Senator...that sound you make...flapping your gums... that's not an answer... please sir... could you give me an answer.... I don't even know how to spell the sound of flapping gums... it's eerie... please Senator...stop it... I'm just trying to do my job here...

The mendacious Bob Novak should define for us what exacty he means when he says "conservatives".

Is he talking about people who recycle their garbage? Or the reality... those that support the largest yet least effective government in the history of our union, wholly bloated by six years of Republican rule?

Which conservative are we talking about? Those that do not believe in nation building... or the reality of an illegal war in a country for which we have utterly destroyed the infrastructure and created endless chaos?

I'm really trying to understand which part of conservative he is? Is he for sensible spending, within our means, or the largest deficits in the history of the world?

Where is the liberal media, for which propagandists like himself have trouble finding employment? Is that the liberal media that employed Judith Miller to trumpet the parrot points of the most corrupt executive branch ever, and lead us into a war based on a 'pack of lies'?

It is clear, like most 'conservatives' Mr. Novak has bought into the big lie, and is simply a tool for the Republican party, which in six years has done nothing but spend money whilst siphoning whatever they can for themselves and their kind. If there was any true differences in the Republican party and the awful reign of George W. Bush, we would have a new Attorney General, which would lead to a new Vice President, and perhaps the end of the criminal George W. Bush as well.

Mr. Novak commited treason in a time of war by exposing the identity of a undercover CIA operative who was working in the very sensitive area of intelligence gathering that has to do with weapons of mass destruction. The fact that he is not in jail for the rest of his life leads me to believe he should count his fucking blessings and realize how lucky he is.