It is ON!
Leahy sets Thursday vote for contempt resolutions against Rove, Bolten
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a committee vote Thursday on contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas.
Under Judiciary Committee rules, the vote could be postponed for a week, but Leahy said he intends to move the criminal contempt resolutions as soon as possible. Last week, he rejected the White House’s executive privilege claim in preventing Rove and Bolten from appearing before his panel, calling it “overbroad, unsubstantiated, and not legally valid,” setting the stage for Thursday’s showdown.</em>
At some point this facade of Kingly…oops, executive privilege is going to crumble, and one of the loathsome jackals of the Bush administration is going to sit under hot lights and answer questions- just like criminals in the real world do.
Now would be a fine time, folks.
