Republicans Walk Out on Dems, Unfortunately Don’t Moon Them, Too.
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.
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