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Thread #100150 Message #2004531
Posted By: Bobert
22-Mar-07 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Congress has no oversight power??!
Subject: RE: BS: US Congress has no oversight power??!
Well, Mizzy, as you know Bush has use either "executive priveldge" or when that wasn't nough "executive order" to block oversight...
Probably the most bizarre case is when he invoked "executive order" to protect Cheney from havibng to release the names or content of the folks who were involved in writing the "energy policy"...
And with the courts now packed with idealogues that he has appointed, including the two highly partisan ideologues in Alito and Roberts there is no chance in Hell that Bush will have to pay the price...
...and the Dems know it... Sure, they can use their supona powers all they want but any time that Bush thinks that having his folks appear before Congress and actually ***have*** to do so under oath, it won't happen...
What we have no is waht the righties and Repubs have complained about going back decades and that is ***judical activism*** like hasn't been seen in decades... And it's wrapped in partisan politics...
Yeah, historians and Americans will one day look back on Bush as perhaps the worst prersident ever but..
...with 9/11 and lots of $$$ behind him he has been enabled to earn that distinction...
That's the problem when when the bad stars align and it will take a long, long time before our constitutional form of governemnt rights itself from ther executive abuses that will be the centerpiece of Bushs legacy...