Judge for yourself:
"Rove snubs House hearing; Subcommittee members scold his empty chair" by Dana Milbank, Washington Post | July 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - There was good reason for The Architect's quiet: He was out of the country. He had no intention of appearing before Congress, and he had sent the panel the equivalent of a doctor's note - from no less a medical authority than White House counsel Fred Fielding - saying he did not have to respond to the congressional subpoena.
So lawmakers decided to pull out one of the most feared weapons in their arsenal: the emptychair stunt.
And we are paying them for this, huh?
All this HOT FART MIST and POLITICAL FOOLEY BULLSHIT?
Congress knows the White House can run out the clock on the various investigations into the Bush administration. White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers have already been held in contempt of Congress - but even if Bush's Justice Department decides to prosecute those cases, his administration will be out of office before they are resolved.
A contempt citation for Rove, which could come as soon as next week, would face the same sort of delay. That makes the immediate gratification of the empty chair more appealing.
And the Congress won't even push the subpoenas, so pffffffffftttt!
The tone of this article and the non-news aspect of it is making me fade, folks.
The antiwar activists from the liberal Code Pink group certainly thought so. Before the hearing began, they entertained the arriving crowd with a chant of "They do the crime and we do the time." Then one of them placed an "Arrest Rove" sign on the empty chair. "Ma'am, we can't do things like that," a Capitol police officer told her gently. "Let's not go overboard."
Oh, do you KNOW WHY "CodePink" is allowed to operate?
Sorry, AmeriKans, but time to learn the cold hard truth:
CodePink: A CIA Front of Controlled Opposition
Otherwise, they WOULD NOT APPEAR in the jewsmedia.
--MORE--"
Also see: Rove raps at correspondents dinner
