Congress of darkness...
Published Mon, Jun 11 2007 12:53 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Republicans, Democrats, Annoyances
I told you it wasn't dead... now it looks like somebody's gotten a hold of the necronomicon. The travesty that is "comprehensive" immigration reform just won't die.
Harry Reid ended up looking like a fool when he crowed about killing the Patriot Act, the extension of which then went on to pass and be signed into law. So too conservative pundits and bloggers that have been crowing about the death of the illegal alien amnesty act of 2007 may end up looking like fools.
Politics these days is starting to take on a "B" movie flair.
Meanwhile, according to the same article mentioned above, it looks like Congress thinks the U.S. government is run like the British government. They want to debate a one-sentence measure today to declare a vote of "no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Maybe in the United Kingdom a vote of no confidence means that a public official has to step down, but it doesn't work that way under our Constitution.
No, the only way Congress can force the ouster of the Attorney General requires his impeachment by the House of Representative and conviction by the Senate. Neither of those things is going to happen.
Of course, the President could always simply fire him, or ask for his resignation. That's what happened to those U.S. Attorneys a little while ago. And we all know that's what the Democratic leadership in Congress really wants anyway.
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Don't you just love the consistency of the Democratic leadership these days? When the President of the United States, who just happens to be of the opposition party, exercises his Constitutional authority to have certain U.S. attorneys fired they call for all manner of investigations into the political motivations behind the action. At the very same time, they want the President to exercise his Constitutional authority to fire the Attorney General that carried out the President's wishes.
"Hey he fired people you wanted fired, so now we want you to fire him for it." Isn't there anyone left in the Democratic leadership that is a little more mature than say… Paris Hilton?
Well, there was Joe Lieberman… but he left after they turned on him.
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