CCN Lou Dobbs: 'Showdown' really a battle of partisan buffoons

[Catherine Vincent]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/21/dobbs.March22/index.html

Dobbs: 'Showdown' really a battle of partisan buffoons
By Lou Dobbs
CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- An incompetent attorney general, who says he wasn't fully aware that nearly 10 percent of the U.S. attorneys who work for him throughout the country were being fired and permitted the 110,000-person Justice Department that he leads to give inaccurate information at best, or simply lie about it at worst, to the Congress and the American people, has the full confidence of the president who's lost the confidence of most people.

And this is what passes for a big-time, dramatic, historic constitutional crisis in 21st century America? You've got to be kidding. This is the most partisan, politically driven administration in history, and we're all supposed to be surprised by its conduct and motivation in the firing of these U.S. attorneys? Please.

Now the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law has voted to approve subpoenas that would force chief policy adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other top presidential aides to testify publicly and under oath about their involvement in the firings.

Guess what? That little ol' subcommittee can't do much of anything to force executive branch employees to testify without the help of the very man and department at the center of this altogether silly and over-baked controversy. That's right; Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or one of his U.S. attorneys would have to enforce any subpoenas refused by any of the president's aides.

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[Duer 157099]

1. Gee Lou, your argument actually makes the case

Sheesh. Let's see ... the problem is that the AG, a partisan toady, will quite *obviously* impede this investigation... hmmm... and this is "not* a problem in your mind, Lou?

Talk about irony.

[AX10]

6. Dobbs is a conservative.

[originalpckelly]

2. Oh yeah, possible obstruction of justice/perversion of justice...

is really just such a partisan endeavor. I don't even agree with most of the people who fired in politics, they are mostly Republicans, but even these Republicans got fucked because they just happened to do their jobs without letting partisanship get in the way. Fuck off Dobbs.

[melody]

3. Lou is a partisan buffoon n/t

[peace frog]

4. True

Every time he puffs himself up bragging about the "Lou Dobbs Democrats" in his viewing audience, I laugh my ass off. Get over yourself, buffoon.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Is it true that Gonzo and gang would have to enforce those subpeonas?

Anyone know if that factoid is correct?

[Tempest]

7. Not entirely

The Democrats could take it to the courts and they would decide.

[Duer 157099]

8. Not him personally, but the USAtty in DC

who, of course, was appointed by Fredo less than a year ago I believe (hey... was he confirmed by the senate...?)

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10. So theoretically, the Congressional subpeonas could sit in limbo

if the AG office never got around to enforcing them?

Jus ttrying to be clear here since I am dead sure the Bushies will do everything to prevent Rove from testifying under oath. This would seem to be a no-brainer for them - just sit on the damn things and wait it out.

[Horse with no Name]

12. The REPUBLICAN Senate?

The lines are blurred.

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9. Jeffrey Taylor, USAtty for DC

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/dc/US_Attorney/index.html

Biography of U.S. Attorney
Jeffrey A. Taylor

Jeffrey A. Taylor was appointed interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on September 22, 2006. He was sworn in and took office on September 29, 2006.

From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Taylor served as Counselor to Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Gonzales, where he handled a broad array of matters, including oversight of the Department’s national security, terrorism, and criminal litigation and policy, as well as the operations of the Department’s law enforcement components.

Mr. Taylor served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1995–1999, where he prosecuted a variety of criminal matters, including international drug trafficking organizations. From 1999-2002, Mr. Taylor served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary, working on issues including criminal law, terrorism, and national security.

Mr. Taylor began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Mowbray, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, from 1991–1992, and then worked for three years in private practice. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. Mr. Taylor, and his wife, Marcia Taylor, are residents of the District of Columbia.

[Beelzebud]

11. Lou Dobbs is just an old racist fool.

[gatorboy]

13. Too bad Bush isn't mexican.

Otherwise Lou would be getting the KY out for this.

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14. Lou Dobbs is a one trick pony

He finally found a topic that gave him a lot of attention and he refuses to look at anything else.