"I’m worried about precedents that would make it difficult for somebody to walk into the Oval Office and say, ‘Mr. President, here’s what’s on my mind,’ " Bush said. "And if you haul somebody up in front of Congress and put him in oath and, you know, all the klieg lights and all the questioning, to me it makes it very difficult for a president to get good advice."
So Congress is going to subpoena Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. If they refuse, put them in jail. We’ve really had quite enough from this Administration who seems to think that they were elected to the imperial throne. Truth be told, Bush really was. There’s absolutely no way he would be President if his father hadn’t already been elected and served. But the notion that they are going to defy a Congressional Subpoena is just not their right. I can’t defy a subpoena of any kind that I know of. Why should they be able to defy such an order? I think this is yet another episode in the grounds for impeachment. If this President is unwilling to be accountable to anyone, Congress, the Senate, the American people, then he deserves anything he gets. But the crowning moment is, "And if you haul somebody up in front of Congress and put him in oath and, you know, all the klieg lights and all the questioning, to me it makes it very difficult for a president to get good advice." For this President to argue that he gets "good advice" is the most ludicrous comment of all. He didn’t think the Iraq Study Group gave him good advice. He didn’t like what the C.I.A. said about Iraq. I doubt that he’d know "good advice" if it bit him on the ass. And, as long as we’re on this point, exactly what "advice" did Harriet Miers and Karl Rove give him about the firing of the U.S. Attorneys? I thought Bush wasn’t involved… So that’s what I think. But what I feel is something more like "Just who the f–k do you people think you are! You can dish it out, but you sure can’t take it. Do you think we’re going to put up with this bulls–t? Get out of our White House!"
or something like that…
I really like what you feel like saying. BRAVO!!!
If you think bush’s approval rating is at an all-time low now, wait until this plays out.
O.K. I missed something. If Ms. Miers is no longer an advisor then how exactly does her taking an oath and testifying make it difficult for Bush to get good advice from his current advisors? To me the bottom line that is punctuated in this whole affairs is if they were playing according to the law then there shouldn’t be any reason for them to worry about who in the slew of advisors is being put under oath.
And while I hope his approval ratings do drop, screw approval ratings. This whole administration NEEDS TO GO!