SandyK77 - I'd love to see this entire administration hang from a rope for their crimes and their war profits.

Is a hanging what you would really love, or a more enlightened humanity?

Is McClellen a potential smoking gun, or a critical human piece in the American conversation for uncovering human dignity?

It's funny that Fitzgerrald somehow didn't think this was necessary. What a coward. As it turns out, he was one of the judges that was also worried about getting ousted from his job by Rowe, and co-conspirators. Saving his own skin, I guess, is more important than punishing criminals.

The only possible purpose this investigation will serve is to perhaps turn a few voters away from the Republicans this election. I think they should be exposed, but I have no illusions about the penalties they will face. There will be no prison time, no fines, no damage to their careers. Sadly, these people truly are "above the law".

Yawn....Here is another exercise by Waxman to expose the criminals in the White House. He has been conducting these "investigations" for years without a single indictment, much less a conviction. Meanwhile, the rest of the Democratic Party fiddles while Rome burns.

Another subpoena? The House must still believe in the Tooth Fairy.

Mukasey? Allow a subpoena? hahahahaha

. . . and wasn't Tim Russert one of those who could have shed some light on this conspiracy?

I was just going through the archives of Common Dreams on this for other reasons and came across these two stories:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0316-25.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/26/2773/

Gotta keep pressure up from all angles on these criminals or we might as well commit Hari Kari.

Mukasey, Russert, Fitzgerald, Waxman, Tooth Fairy, Rove.

These are all white guys trying to do their job within the constraints of the systems they work for. Like many of us readers, some of them authentically care to the best of their ability, and thus elevate to a status higher than "white guy". Others accept their white-guy fate and push papers around while trying to appear as though they care, using rambling faux rhetoric and nice tie clips.

Some are so miserable that their wives won't even touch them! What are they doing in that back room?

Deconstruct the system at any available opportunity. It's easy and free. And remember, no violence.

Ken Nuti
Medford, MA

So now Scott McClellan is going to testify. Wow! What a heroic deed. Perhaps he can push his book while he's at it.

What I want to know is where were these "heroes" when they could have made a difference? Looks just like George Tenet's heroism, become a savior of the people after it poses no threat to their career. Sheesh!

I guess Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will come out once they are out of office and write a book about all of the impeachable crimes that Bu$h/Cheney have comitted and explain away how they were powerless to do anything at the time also.

My republican aquaintances.... you broke it, now you fix it. This was your whitehouse and the whole lot of you are about to go down in history as the most criminally complicit political party ever. Your party has violated the sanctity of everything this country is supposed to stand for. Fix it now or hold you head in shame forever.

Well, I suppose they have to be seen as paying some kind of lip service to the growing discontent amongst the plebians. It just wouldn't do for them to be seen as the totally irrelevant 'representative body' that they have actually become under the tyrannical 'unitary executive' that they so enthusiastically helped to create.

It boggles the mind utterly to contemplate the notion that this is the allegedly superior 'checks and balances' alternative to the parliamentary system of democracy that was so violently rejected by the nation's founders.

On the other hand, that nasty old George III did stand in the way of 'freedom and democracy' when he tried to place limits on westward expansion and land grabs by Washington and his fellow colonial elite. Silly old fool! If he'd been wiser, he might have had real tyrannical power for himself approaching nearly that of George W of America without any day-to-day parliamentary accountability whatever.

So now Scott McClellan is going to testify.
Is that with or without Ollie North's can of Coca-Cola?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/LAW-SCHOOL-TO-ORGANIZE-BUS-by-Sherwood-Ross-080615-783.html

Those here who lean toward telling the rest what is store for us vis a vis Bushco accountability might want to see what UMass is working on. The link is above.

There's an ocean of difference between anger that makes one act to fix the problem and the self-defeating rhetoric I find far too often here.

C'mon, let's get (or stay) focused on the tasks at hand. Made enough calls to the spineless ones? Why not have a lobbying event out in front of the spineless one's office (now that he/she is really running for office) or better yet , follow Gareth Porter's suggestion, to picket the local daily rag that supports war and protecting Bushco (go to www.antiwar.com and listen to his interview - upper right)

They must be getting ready to waterboard or electrocute someone. Bush is pointing and Cheney is smiling.

Yes, Scott is late to the party but at least he showed up. He just may be the smoking gun we libs have been waiting for, the stake through the heart of these pathetic WAR CRIMINALS. I'd love to see this entire administration hang from a rope for their crimes and their war profits handed out to the poor.

sandyk77, the war profits should be evenly divided between the victims --- the defenseless Iraqis --- and the unwilling taxpayers who were against this so-called war on Iraq and were forced to fund it.

Article sez: "The subpoena ... is the latest move by Congress to shed light on Cheney's precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA identity."

Cheney sez: "So?"

Handjob, nothing more than a funky handjob for the dumbed down American masses. Where falls the blame; TV, MSM, way too many distractions, our education system turning out sheep??

The Democratic Congress easily has the power to deny or drastically limit further appropriations for the 5+ years Iraq war, and instead is about to give an almost universally despised President Bush all the war funding he wants with no limitations whatsoever. The Democratic House easily has the power to impeach Bush and Cheney for several blatant "high crimes or misdemeanors," and instead has "taken impeachment off the table" for any and every crime Bush and Cheney wish to commit -- including another impending aggressive war against another Middle Eastern nation, this time Iran. And now they have the collosal gall to think we American voters are so stupid as not to see the pointlessness of initiating a legal battle in federal court against a Bush Administration which will be gone before the litigation has barely begun (if indeed Congress even files a lawsuit). To Congress I say please deny further war funding and impeach the despicable criminals in the White House, or shut up. Oh, and by the way, thank you Congress and President Bush for the $14.03 "economic stimulus" check I just received today from the US Treasury. Your economic acumen is beyond belief.

Turce said it....

Mukasey? Allow a subpoena? hahahahaha

America is sicker than you know apparently.
No change here.

Letter to Attorney General Mukasey
Response from Department of Justice
Oversight Committee Subpoenas Justice Department for Plame Documents

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1983

Here are the standard rhetorical arguments made by Republicans, Obamacans and other corporate goons on CommonDreams threads:

(1) When Congress fails to end the war, or impeach war criminals, etc., they shout "Systemic corruption! Drop out! Anarchy!"

(2) When Congress works hard and makes progress (as with Waxman's subpoena), they shout "Futility! Don't even try!"

(3) And when Congress succeeds and Republican criminals are convicted and imprisoned, they shout "Partisan! Old politics! Democrats are just as bad! We want unity!"

I believe this is organized, election-year "dirty tricks." It's intent is to neutralize the Left.

Oh my God! I thought the Democrats had completely given up on even the semblance of trying to hold the Dick Bush accountable. Oops, forgot, it's an election year!

The Democrats are allowing the Republicans to chart new waters in the Sea of Runningoutheclock. Looks like fair weather and smooth sailing ahead. Shiver me timbers!