Dems - Time to put up or shut up
For months the Democrats have been asking or begging for documents about various items - US Attorney firings, Wire Tapping, Valerie Plame case to name a few. The White house has universally given Congress the finger. Representative John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has asked for all documents pertaining to political prosecutions in the US Attorney’s office. The Department of Justice has selectively released some documents. Representative Conyers is mad and red in the face.
So what is he going to do? Continue to stop his foot? Continue to hold his breath? Or is he going to finally issue some subpoenas? When they refuse the subpoenas, then what? This is like in the great movie the Untouchables. (If he sends one of yours to the Hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way.) What is he, Conyers, prepared to do? Is he prepared to have a constitutional showdown? Because if he isn’t, he’s already lost. The White House is prepared to take this as far as it can. The Supreme Court is the end game unless the White House backs down and I don’t see that happening.
