Friday, June 29, 2007

Bush Defies Congress on Subpoenas


Bush has nothing to hide, he's just refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas because he's the Decider, and when the Decider does it, it just can't be illegal.

Mustang Bobby over at Bark Bark Woof Woof has a nice summary of what appears to be an imminent constitutional showdown:

For those of you who missed out on all the fun of Watergate, this is the same battle between the White House and Congress that served as the overture to the events that brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon in August 1974. The president insisted that he was above the law; Congress insisted that they were entitled to the information. The president claimed that it would erode the power of the presidency; the Congress and the voters decided that they could live with that. Nixon lost; we won.

So here we go again.