Yesterday, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) once again subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify in Congress about politicized appointments in the Justice Department. he subpoena calls for Rove to appear at deposition on Monday, February 2, 2009.
Rove has stonewalled before, claiming a Bush-supported immunity, but with Bush out of office and an opinion by a Federal court backed up by the stance of Barack Obama, Rove cannot legally avoid testifying.
“I have said many times that I will carry this investigation forward to its conclusion, whether in Congress or in court, and today’s action is an important step along the way,” said Rep. Conyers. “Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it’s time for him to talk.”
So the question is, will Rove appear on Feb. 2, or will he try once again to find a way to avoid the confrontation. Bush left office without a blanket pardon for Rove or his minions… and this may be what leads to a real eventual prosecution.
We’ll see.
I’m sort of ambivalent about rehashing the past 8 years because it brings such a distaste in the mouth that I wonder if Democrats should not forget the past, and move on. There are so many things to do to undo this awful period of history.
Conyers is a great representative from my state, and we love him for his moral and ethical fiber. But nothing will come of directing our attention to the past.
i hope you are kidding.
Conyers and the rest of the Congress should be focusing on turning over bad legislation from the Bush era, like tax cuts for the wealthy, offshore banking, and corporate malfeasance, all of those rules confounding church and state, the environmental laxity, and on and on.
There are better ways to undo the past. That’s all I am saying.
on a level a whole lot lower than the kind of criminality that has been wink-wink nudge-nudged along in this country for too many years.
Maybe it’s time for a little preventive punishment.
Rove, Madoff, a few others? Cheney? Feith?
Serious punishment, not just detention in a fed country club for a couple of years until the stink settles down.
I love what John Conyers is doing, and I will support him in every way possible.
If the message goes out that doing this kind of thing will mean your mortal ass, maybe these already-rich sons of bitches will think twice before they let greed run their game up to that level.
I know…it has been “proven” that punishment is not a deterrent. Bullshit. It is INDEED a deterrent if people have something to lose. Create an underclass that is totally without hope of improvement in any legal way and yes, punishment is not going to stop some members of that class from trying to get over by any means necessary.
Make the Madoffs and Roves of this world realize that if they get caught they will suffer truly serious consequences and maybe they will stay at their own natural used-car scam level and not bring suffering to so many millions of people.
Go, JOHN!!!
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