Just How Much More Arrogance are We Going to Put Up With from this White House?
June 28, 2007
Today, the White House sent a letter to Congress invoking the increasingly broad concept of “executive privilege” to explain why they wouldn’t share important documents regarding the firings of several U.S. attorneys.
President Bush has shown a consistent, flagrant, arrogant disregard for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law. His main concern in all of this is partisan politics and he refuses to reach out and seek compromise. His behavior while in office the antithesis of everything our nation’s founders envisioned when they designed the executive branch.
It’s time Congress started playing hardball with this White House. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said that he would consider pursuing contempt citations for those who fail to reply to Congressional subpoenas. I certainly hope Congress is prepared to follow through on that, because I’m sick of watching them back down to a White House that has absolutely not respect for their role as the voice of the American people.
Everytime Bush does something like this, he seems to lose just a little more support from the American people and from his Republican supporters in Congress. It’s not big enough that he cares, but my hope is that this erosion will eventually be high enough that people will stand up to him. If they feel the way I do, they will also thrown him out of office and into jail (violation of the Geneva Convention would be a nice place to start)
Bush makes baby Jesus cry.
I know. That’s why he’s coming back. YEAH!