The “Ha-Ha” Report

Sometimes, just keeping your mouth shut would be the best way to go, rather than make statements that everybody laughs off before you get them out of your mouth.Why on Earth would Nanny Pelosi think Chimpy would be afraid of her oversight of his activities NOW?!? She’s rolled over for the moronic monkey on just about every issue that’s come before her. Her latest pronouncement would be a side-splitter, if it wasn’t so infuriating.

Christ, I do wish that “Stepnfetchit” Reid and his House enabler would stop the posturing. Those of us who aren’t Chimpletons…… aren’t Chimpletons, and unlike the Chimpletons, we actually take offense when people assume us to be a bunch of stupid sheep, ready to follow along with whatever the official line is. We’re more than aware that Reid and Pelosi are about as likely to actually take a stand for what is right as Chimpy is to show concern for the poor. It just ain’t gonna happen.

The House voted Thursday 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.

Ahead of the vote, Republicans had walked out in an effort to show that they want to work on a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) rather than be part of a “partisan fishing expedition,” as House Minority Leader John Boehner (W-Permatan) put it.

The contempt vote raises the stakes between the White House and Congress in the battle over the fired U.S. attorneys and could set up a constitutional showdown between the legislative and executive branches.

The matter will now be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

If the fight comes to a head without a compromise having been reached, it could pit Congress’s power to hold White officials in contempt against the president’s right to assert executive privilege.

Democrats passed two resolutions through the adoption of a single rule, a procedural tactic that limited the time of debate, angering Republicans. One resolution holds Bolten and Miers in contempt. The second sets the stage for a civil suit the House would file against the administration to compel it to force Bolten and Miers to testify.

“I hope this administration will realize this Congress is serious about its constitutional role of oversight,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (W-Butler.).

Pelosi, who stated that she “had hoped that this day would never have come,” added that, if White House officials instruct Department of Justice attorneys not to prosecute the contempt citations, “we will have power to go to federal court and seek civil enforcement of our subpoenas.”

The contempt vote raises the stakes between the White House and Congress in the battle over the fired U.S. attorneys and could set up a constitutional showdown between the legislative and executive branches.

The matter will now be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

If the fight comes to a head without a compromise having been reached, it could pit Congress’s power to hold White officials in contempt against the president’s right to assert executive privilege.

Democrats passed two resolutions through the adoption of a single rule, a procedural tactic that limited the time of debate, angering Republicans. One resolution holds Bolten and Miers in contempt. The second sets the stage for a civil suit the House would file against the administration to compel it to force Bolten and Miers to testify.

“I hope this administration will realize this Congress is serious about its constitutional role of oversight,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi, who stated that she “had hoped that this day would never have come,” added that, if White House officials instruct Department of Justice attorneys not to prosecute the contempt citations, “we will have power to go to federal court and seek civil enforcement of our subpoenas.”

You’ll forgive me for thinking that I’ll win the Lotto before any of Chimpy’s toadies are held to account for their behavior. The Chimpy pardon list must be about a mile long now.

Crossposted at Reconstitution