When the Evil Elf Goodling of Regent went up to testify last week, there were lots of humorous (in an ironical way, not Chris Rock/Robin Williams way) moments. Like her revelation that her stint as Student Council president qualified her to hire and fire men and women charged with enforcing the laws of the land. But by far one of the best moments came here:
SENSENBRENNER:Now, let me say that this committee has spent $250,000 of the taxpayers' money basically investigating the replacement of U.S. attorneys whose terms had expired.
I was the chairman of this committee for six years during the Bush administration and the chairman of the Science Committee for four years during the Clinton administration.I never signed a subpoena, because I didn't have to.And I never asked my committee to request the Justice Department to obtain a grant of immunity to anybody.
It seems to me that with this fishing expedition, there ain't no fish in the water.And we've spent an awful lot of time and an awful lot of money finding that out.
Sensenbrenner who is one of the leading facist authoritarian cultists in the US Government (he's never met a law restricting civil liberties that he did not like) complaining that Congress had spent $250,000 on an investigation into suspected malfeasance (which by the way seems to have some substance there "Tex" [his nickname, btw]).
I'm guessing that ol' Tex has forgotten the 70 or so million dollars spent investigating the spots on Bill Clinton's dick, and if Monica was a spitter or a swallower.
So real quick (cause it's a nice Saturday afternoon, and I gotta run some errands) let's fire up the Wayback Machine and see what ol'Tex had to say about the North American Spotted Clenis:
But being a poor example isn't grounds for impeachment; undermining the rule of law is. Frustrating the court's ability to administer justice turns private misconduct into an attack upon the ability of one of the three branches of our government to impartially administer justice. This is a direct attack on the rule of law in our country and a very public wrong that goes to the constitutional workings of our government.
To me, making a false statement under oath to a criminal grand jury is an impeachable offense, period. This committee and this House decided that issue by a vote of 417 to nothing nine years ago in the Judge Nixon impeachment.
IOKIYAR, indeed. And does ol'Tex seem to think that the apparent conflicts in testimony and possible witness tampering by Abu Gonzales are much of an issue to be spoken of in the "rule of law and what do we tell the kids mode?" apparently Not So Much.
