YOU CAN'T SUBPOENA ME I'M THE PRESIDENT

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I just hope they find their balls and impeach his ass for contempt of Congress.

Which will do nothing at all, because a conviction is virtually impossible.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Dictatorships excerise complete and absolutely unrestricted power. They typically possess the ability to completely squelch any and all naysayers with little or no reprecussions.

To say the Bush Administration in anyway resembles a dictatorship is simple demagoguery.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Guilty of WHAT?!

Be fucking serious.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Show to me where George W. Bush has absolute power. If he had absolute power, he wouldn't need Congress to do shit. Whatever he wanted would be the law of the land based on his executive fiat and that alone.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The President and the executive branch have a thing called Executive privilege . That privilege exempts the particular information Congress wants from subpoena.

At least that is the argument of the Bush Administration. Whether or not it is a crime is to be decided by the federal courts. Until such time a federal court says that the Administration has to surrender the requested information to Congress and the Administration refuses, they have committed no crime.

So I'm going to have to ask you to try again, fuck boy.

How ya doing, buddy?

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Contempt of Congress has a long history of being upheld by the courts,

And yet this statement does nothing to refute the fact that until a federal court says that the Bush Administration has to surrender the requested information and the Administration subsequently refuses that no crime has been committed.

So let's stop this silly fucking dance, shall we? Show me a crime Bush has committed or please shut the fuck up. You won't, because it doesn't suit your agenda to do so, but it was worth a shot.

Pang? Drop the track! Goddamnit.

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I don't support Bush blindly at all. Matter of factly, if he were up for re-election, I wouldn't even vote for him. I agree with Bush in principle alone and quite frankly, he is indeed the lesser of two evils.

I can deal with a largely incompetent guy with good ideas, but not a party who advocates everything this country has fought against for the last 70 or so years just so they can buy votes.

Not like it matters anyway. Bush will be gone, the Democrats will win the White House in 2008 and the systematic dismantling of the American superpower will go into full throttle. So stop fucking whining. You guys are gonna get what you want anyway - socialism, America abrogating its sovereignity to the UN, and world 'respect.'

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Love that Cold War thinkin' you got going there, but uh, the USSR has been gone for over a decade, buddy.

It has nothing to do with the Soviets. Yeah, they lost the Cold War, but the strange irony is that the economic philosophy they advocated is slowly, but surely starting to creep up on America. And it's not just the Democrats, it's some of these Republicans, too. It's part of the reason I've become so disillusioned with American politics and I don't even bother to vote anymore.

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Night Phoenix: Contempt of Congress is a crime of omission. You don't need to prove he DID anything - his inaction is in and of itself criminal. The court proceeding is largely a formality - "We subpoenaed him to do this. He didn't."

But the thing that is in question is whether or not the Bush Administration, under the guise of executive privledge, has to give Congress the documents they've requested. That is why I say that until a federal court rules that the Bush Administration cannot invoke executive privledge in this instance that no crime has been committed.

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Socialism means more government control, less economic prosperity, even less of an incentive to be prosperous because an ever-increasing amount of your prosperity will be seized to subsidize everyone else's lifestyle. It is a recipe for widespread mediocrity.

It is my firm belief that the creation of a social welfare system in the United States will be the one thing that really does us in.

See how successful Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are? All three systems are in a state of insolvency for the long-term barring break-backing taxes. The public education system - an exercise in being habitually fucked up.

Those of you who advocate socialism know good and well everytime the government touches something, it gets turned into absolute shit. You just have such a hatred for capitalism and the profit motive that you'd rather subject all of us to bullshit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.