Letters to the Editor
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If she refuses...
throw her in jail, or send her ass to Syria for questioning.
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Sadly, condi rice is like
most of the women in the bush administration. She is a throwback to something that doesn't exist anymore, experts on the Soviet Union. She is the token they hired. Arguably the worst NS Advisor and Secretary of state in the history of our nation.
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I wish I had that kind of power.
To be able to tell 1/3 of the United States government to go fuck themselves? That's some kind of power she has.
Hey Condi, it's a little harder out here in the real world and a lot harder down in New Orleans in case you and your boss aren't paying attention.
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Constitutional basis?
Does anyone know if she actually has the legal basis to refuse a subpoena from Congress? She's a citizen of the United States... I'm thinking the "Executive privilege" argument wouldn't hold up in court, ultimately? But I'd love to hear someone with more expertise than I answer that...
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Gee, Remember When
Conservatives were banging shoes and yelling, "The President is Not Above the Law" during the Paula "Seen My Cooch in Penthouse?" Jones' "sexual harrassment" lawsuit. Well, now the shoe's in the ther hand. Condi Rice is not above the law. George W. Bush is not above the law. The whole criminal gang of them should be handed over to the Hague and tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The only one I would cut any slack to would be Colin Powell who I think should take Rudolph Hess's place in a newly reconstructed Spandau Prison. The rest should be hanged higher than Mussolini's Mistress.
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I wonder
If the cell they put her in for contempt of Congress is going to have a view of the Potomac or not?
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Supreme Court Showdown
I suspect BushCo is going to drag this all the way to the Supreme Court. They won't let Condi or Karle Rove testify under oath, and the Catch 22 is that Congress can't prosecute them for crimes if they won't testify under oath.
I think Congress is angry enough to take it to the limit, but they need to keep hearing from constituents. Once it gets to the Supreme Court, who knows what will happen - a less conservative court appointed Bush president in the first place. Will the new court give them the pass of executive privilege?
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You'd think somebody would explain this process to her
Is she under the impression that a supoena is optional?
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I Agree with the Conservatives on this One
If you have done nothing wrong, than you have nothing to worry about. It is unanimous amongst conservatives that based on this logic, she should testify. Right?
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Incompetent, passive, feckless
As a National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Ms. Rice has been strikingly feckless, passive and incompetent. And I would have to add immoral.
As the incoming NSA only months after the bombing of the Cole, and receiving a number of briefings on the imminent threat of terrorist activities against the U.S. (the most notable being the August 6, 2001 "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." and the urgent "hair on fire" meeting on July 10 called by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black,), Ms. Rice's response was total passivity. This was in line with the rest of the Bush-cheney team. As Secretary of State she has been no better.
She has never responded truthfully to questions about her actions or lack of actions. Her appearance before the 9/11 Commission was a primer in the art of obfuscation and deceit, as have any prior appearances before Congress. With the new congress she is especially wary that she might inadvertently tell a bit of the truth under aggressive questioning.
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I would love to see
Condi in prison for Contempt of Congress.
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Testify
As the national security advisor, Ms. Rice testified under oath before the 9/11 Commission. Why can't she testify under oath about her tenure as national security advisor?
In September 1997, Clinton's national security advisor testified under oath before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Thirty of Clinton's advisors testified before Congress.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/the-times-misleads-on-pro_b_43911.html
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Earth to Condi: "sub" - under; "poena" - penalty
or more technically:
Middle English suppena, from Medieval Latin sub poen, under a penalty (from the opening words of the writ) : Latin sub, under; see sub- + Latin poen, ablative of poena, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.
Send the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House and a posse over to Foggy Nottom, slap her in chains and an orange jump suit - and march her ass up the Hill to Congress.
It's time to take off the kid gloves and treat these criminals for what they are - criminals.
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If you flout a Congressional subpoena
It's up to the President to enforce it, I believe. I chortle heartily at thee.
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Pruning the Branches
Congress is going to have to take the gloves off, for real, because this Presidency clearly doesn't see itself as being a co-equal branch of anybody. Too bad the Supremes tainted themselves in 2000; I certainly don't consider them neutral arbiters in any dispute where executive power is concerned. The 2008 elections can't come soon enough.
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I wonder if she
can get a hold of some stylish shoes to match her organge prison garb. Something in an off beige to contrast the wacking she'll recieve from her cell mate for being such a prissy arrogant dolt.
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Secretary of State Jailed
I'd start praying to Jesus again if that happened. Her dark lord and master will save Satan's Little Helper from prison somehow. Must be those thigh high patent leather numbers she wears that melts his cold heart and lets her get away with so much.
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Presidency
If you flout a Congressional subpoena
It's up to the President to enforce it, I believe.
And if he refuses to obey the law, he can be impeached. Supposedly... It's not like he hasn't flouted the law on a regular basis and bragged about it in writing and on national television.
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Someone needs to defend Condi from the liberal attack machine
For Immediate Release
04/25/07
Crystal Dueker
Communications Director
701-306-2705
crystal@thinkcondi.net
Democrats, led by Representative Waxman are after our Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. In committee today, Waxman decided to subpoena
Secretary Rice to answer questions about the Presidents claim that Iraq
had sought to purchase uranium from Niger.
"It's sad that a dedicated public servant like Condi Rice has to be
subjected to a congressional witch-hunt because of policies they disagree
with," said Richard Holt, National Chairman of Think Condi.
Crystal Dueker, Communications Director of Think Condi says that the
Democrats are trying to "settle old grudges by attacking the highest
Cabinet official". Mr. Holt also added that Representative Waxman "went
after Rice because he didn't have the guts to go after the President
himself."
But they've gone after Rice before. It was just a few months ago that
Sen. Barbara Boxer suggested that Rice could not understand the
consequences of going to war because she did not have children. "I still
can't believe they drooped so low the last time," Mr. Holt says in regards
to repeated bashing by what he called a "hurtful and demeaning" process.
"I'm confident the American people will see through this charade for what
it is," concludes Holt, "a cheap attack, by cheap people, with cheap
leadership, on a quality public official".