{"id":198529,"date":"2007-10-31T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/gop-tries-arm-twisting-bush-dogs-over-contempt-citations\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T04:36:00","slug":"gop-tries-arm-twisting-bush-dogs-over-contempt-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/gop-tries-arm-twisting-bush-dogs-over-contempt-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP tries Arm Twisting Bush Dogs Over Contempt Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes as no surprise.  After all, as much as pukes like Joe Lieberman would have us believe it, being a Bush dog is not a statement of strength, but a statement of weakenss, so with dear leader at 26 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1007\/6631.html\">the Republicans are threatening attack ads<\/a>, because they might support investigations into Bush wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>This is cowardice, and when these folks act this way, it depicts the entire Democratic party as a bunch of cowards who can&#8217;t be trusted.  That is why they are a liability that needs to be minimized.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t Dan Burton and his watermelons.  This is an investigation into turning the Justice Department into a wing of the Republican party.  It is worse than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anything<\/span> Nixon ever did.<\/p>\n<p>Message to Bush Dogs, stand up for your country and grow a backbone.  This isn&#8217;t politics, this is the country that you have to say.<\/p>\n<p>To quote <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">REPUBLICAN<\/span> Dick Thornburgh, George Herbert Walker Bush&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Attorney General<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\u201cThe citizens of the United States must have confidence that the department is conducting itself in a fair and impartial\u201d manner, \u201cwithout actual political influence or the appearance of political influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Unfortunately, that may no longer be the case,\u201d Thornburgh said.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes as no surprise. After all, as much as pukes like Joe Lieberman would have us believe it, being a Bush dog is not a statement of strength, but a statement of weakenss, so with dear leader at 26 percent, the Republicans are threatening attack ads, because they might support investigations into Bush wrongdoing. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}