Fitzmas Comes Late
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 23rd, 2008 4:36 am by HL
Fitzmas Comes Late
Conyers has subpoenaed Rove to appear before House Judiciary.
But they subpoenaed people before, and even Harriet Meiers asserted some kind of weird personal executive privilege and just didn’t show. With a DOJ not permitted to serve subpoenas, they become toothless.
But David Kurtz over at TPM points out a little wrinkle:
The committee is especially interested in Rove’s involvement in the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. In conjunction with issuing the subpoena to Rove, the committee released a letter from the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility confirming that it has launched an investigation of “allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, and Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”
Now that’s a horse of a different color.
GI Bill Passes
Gratifying headline (AP):
Bush dealt defeat on Iraq bill
Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add help for veterans and the unemployed to a bill paying for another year of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The 75-22 vote also adds billions of dollars in other domestic funds such as heating subsidies for the poor and money for fighting wildfires to the $165 billion for the military operations overseas.
The vote is a rebuke to Bush, who has promised to veto the measure if it contains the domestic measures. However, the president still has enough GOP support to sustain a veto.
Update: McCain did not vote
Update 2: Tally
There is said to have been a lot of vote switching once it became clear there were 60 yeas.
