Hmmm. It seems that sometime in the not so distant past, the Republicans in Congress found their backbones.
House Republicans Thursday left the chamber ahead of a vote seeking to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys.
The move was intended to show that Republicans want to work on a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rather than be part of a “partisan fishing expedition,” as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it.
The entire US Attorney “investigation” has been a joke from the very beginning. US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and he can fire them for whatever reason he desires without giving even a word of explanation to Congress. End of story. That the Democrats have wasted valuable time and money on an investigation I just solved in five seconds speaks to their manifest unseriousness running the country.
The Dems are lucky that walking out is all the Republicans did. I would have been far less respectful.
UPDATE: Apparently, there was a lot more drama than just the walkout. Not surprisingly, the majority wasn’t helpful at all.
