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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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If the arrogant autocrats of the Bush regime had been depicted in a 1950s B-movie, it
would be called: "The Imperial Presidency Strikes Again," and the movie poster would
feature members of Congress cowering at the feet of an all-powerful Bush.
Sadly, the image is all too real, for the Bushites are slapping-down Congress once
again. At issue is the crass effort by the White House and top justice department
officials to turn America's non-partisan U.S. attorneys offices over to GOP political
hacks willing to attack Democratic officeholders. They got caught, but the White House
is even refusing to have this politicalization of justice investigated.
When Congress subpoenaed two top Bush aides who were involved to testify, they defied
this perfectly-legal demand. A House Committee then voted to hold the two officials in
contempt, but Democratic leaders were skittish about even asking Bush's attorney general
to enforce the contempt citation. When they finally got up the nerve to do so, the
attorney general imperiously said no, unilaterally rejecting Congress's clear
constitutional power to investigate such wrongdoing.
Some in Congress meekly say that their hands are tied, that they can't make a
recalcitrant presidency obey the law. But that's as wrong as it is pathetic. A
little-known doctrine called the power of "inherent contempt" gives Congress the
incontrovertible right to enforce its own contempt citations - a right that it has
exercised before and that has been upheld by the Supreme Court. By "enforce." I mean
that Congress can send its sergeant-at-arms to arrest the White House outlaws, imprison
them in a Capital jail, and put them on trial by the Congress itself.
America's founders intentionally created a muscular Congress. The question is whether
today's leaders have the gumption to measure up to their own institutional power.
"No Investigation for 2 Bush Aides," www.nytimes.com
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/us/01contempt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=No...
+2+Bush+Aides&st=nyt&oref=slogin> , March 1, 2008
"Time to Vote Contempt," The New York Times, February 14, 2008
"Congress Had a Way of Making Witnesses Speak: its Own Jail," The New York Times,
December 4, 2007
"Honey, They Shrunk the Congress," The New York Times, October 30, 2007
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Just when you think that, surely, the offshoring craze has peaked, here come more
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A LIBRARY FOR BUSH GROUPIES <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6420>
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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won't be much thinking done in the Bush library and think tank to be built at Southern
Methodist... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6420> ]
FEMA STILL AT IT <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6419>
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." George W cluelessly said to the head of FEMA in
2005 when that agency was in the midst of its disastrous performance after Hurricane
Katrina.
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GETTING TO THE MEAT OF THE PROBLEM <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6418>
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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- either because they're incompetent or... [read <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6418>
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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In a recent poll, only 19 percent of... [read more
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THE HOMES OF HENRY KRAVIS <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6409>
Friday, March 14, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Let's take another peek [Lifestyles theme] into the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Cranky."
The old rich pride themselves in . well, in having some pride. For example, they tend
to... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6409> ]
NO PUNISHMENT FOR EXXON <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6406> MALFEASANCE?
OUR LEADER SPEAKS <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6405>
Monday, March 10, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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shouting distance of the real world where the rest of us reside.
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
The nation's political pundits have spent weeks trying to tell us who will be the
presidential nominees. From the Iowa caucuses forward, however, these Beltway
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CASHING IN ON PAYDAY LOANS <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6393>
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
The Bible tells us that Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the temple (for charging
less, by the way, than we're now assessed on our Visa and Mastercard bills).
Credit card... [read <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6393> more]
A REAL STIMULUS PROGRAM <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6392>
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Get ready, get set. stimulate!
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you're poor - then you only get half that). The checks... [read more
<http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6392> ]
THE DELIBERATE DECEIT OF DRUG ADS <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6391>
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
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on the opinions of... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6391> ]
BANKING ON A BAILOUT <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6390>
Monday, March 3, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
What's good for Bank of America is good for America - right?
Well, that's what this huge banking conglomerate is telling the White House and
Congress. These bankers have quietly been... [read more
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
To learn what's really going on in our mixed up world, it helps to have such
indefatigable and trusted diggers for truth as those who write for The Texas Observer.
In the past, this... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6380> ]
MONSANTO SEEKS TO BAN THE TRUTH <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6379>
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Ben & Jerry's Homemade is now owned by a conglomerate, but the company's luscious ice
cream still is made from milk that contains no synthetic growth hormones in it - a fact
that the company... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6379> ]
BANK-ROBBING BANKERS <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6378>
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
One word you never want to hear your dentist say is: "Oops." Likewise, a word you
wouldn't want to hear a top executive of your bank say is: "Yikes!!!!"
Yet, that's... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6378> ]
HOW TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6377> IN POLITICS
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Way back in the ancient history of the 1960s, Bob Dylan sang a song of sass in which he
mocked the establishment's cluelessness about the explosive youth activism of the time.
The irreverent troubadour flung... [read more <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6377> ]
HOME-LOAN HUCKSTERING KEEPS COMING <http://www.jimhightower.com/node/6376>
Monday, February 25, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
You might have noticed that something called the subprime mortgage industry has
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are eating billions of dollars in losses, and America's whole system... [read more
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