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Breaking: GOP Calls for Investigation of Previous Administration
Posted By librarygrape - Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 9:16 PM
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Stalwart Clinton impeachment champion Peggy Noonan had this to say over the weekend about the potential for investigations into illegal acts committed by the Bush administration :

Some things in life need to be mysterious.  Sometimes you need to just keep walking. ... It's hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
Notwithstanding Noonan's protestations to the contrary, a deluge of GOP leaders have just come out with a full-throated call to open up wide-ranging investigations into the former administration's abuses of power.

The first in a series of Republican defections came from Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC):

We need to look at to make sure exactly what happened is known to the public and to deter any future president from doing like behavior, if it was wrong.  In that regard, if we can do it in a bipartisan fashion, I think that's what we should do. Every American benefits when you can control X abuse of power. If this was an abuse of power, then we need to know about it.

Republican Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had this to say:

This is outrageous.  We should at least take a look at what happened and ask ourselves, should we take some action to try to prevent abuses that do occur?

House Government Reform Committee Chair Dan Burton (R-IN) is outraged:

Congress has an obligation to find out if this was appropriate.  [My] panel will obtain subpoenas if necessary.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani can't contain his umbrage:

It needs to be investigated.  I think it is worthy of investigation. The facts cry out for an answer to be given... Until we get the answers to this question, [the Bush torture program] is put in some jeopardy of being misunderstood by the public.


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Discussion:
[-] LOL - Guest-JohnDavis882
LMAO, too bad it'll NEVER happen!

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[ Posted at 11:01 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] It's a Start - Guest-MarkAlanJackson
Before the white-washing and political positioning begins, we should begin to ramp up the pressure on the administrations complicity in 9/11.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2296490368603788739


Mark Alan Jackson Website Link
[ Posted at 11:01 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
Uh, weren't these guys present for the previous administration? And they don't know what they were doing? Are they on drugs?
[ Posted at 11:09 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] read the whole thing - librarygrape
be sure to click over and read the whole article. you'll see what happens at the end
[ Posted at 11:13 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] Obama Drunk? - Guest-JakobThomas
I heard once that after a female praying mantis is done with her mate she kills him, as he serves no further value...

Bush might be the single greatest 'take one for the team' president of all time. I mean, we've already somehow blamed 50-70 years of failed foreign policy and anti-americanism on him, might as well have him be the catalyst for the not so subtle face change of the republican party. Let the finger pointing begin.

Obama drunk video, hilarious little video i just saw...

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCasualMafia
[ Posted at 11:39 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] WOW.. Desperation - Guest-ChrisL
NEWS FLASH! - In a last ditch effort to regain some level of relevancy in today's "reality based" world the GOP is now going to investigate abuses of power that occurred during their last Administration while they held a majority in both houses of congress.

Next up: Republicans accuse Democrats of being soft on executive branch abuses of power!

Wow, just wow. Do they really think this bait and switch routine is going to work?

How sad, and well, pathetic...

Chris L Website Link
[ Posted at 11:43 AM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
Yeh, where were they when these abuses were taking place, backing Bush 100% and calling those of us that questioned it traitors! The only reason they want to investigate it now is to reign back in the power while Obama is President because they don't like the idea of giving him the same authority that they wanted Bush to have.

I agree that it needs to be done but I think it can wait about 3 years. There are bigger issues that need to be addressed right now. Let the repugs squirm a while in the mess they made and if they are so hot to investigate all of this then they can push it forward and maybe they will learn a little bit about bipartisanship along the way since they didn't even pretend to try to be bipartisan when they were in control. Everything they did was rushed through as an emergency giving the Dems only hours to review proposed legislation and offering little to no time for debate and no option for a filibuster. Something the Dems have not yet done to the Repugs.

If they do investigate this, hopefully the total lack of oversight by the Republican Congress will come out as a key factor in how the abuse of power during the Bush years was allowed to happen. They are every bit as complicit and it's a sham that those same Congressmen are calling for an investigation now.
[ Posted at 12:04 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
as before and as again now 'Who cares?'. i voted for obama and hate bush and dick (so much so that i gave up TV from the pure anger of hearing anything they did) but this is just a waste of time. there are more pressing matters. if you can decide doing this will allow the destruction of the DHS, repeal of the Patriot Act, and other constitutional pillaging because the administration was so corrupt; continue. but more likely, this will just be a 'Hey look, we aren't like That republican party' and general time wasting exercise.
[ Posted at 12:25 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] Why now? - Guest-Jeff
Too little too late. Why investigate now that they're already out of office? Democrats tried repeatedly to investigate the Bush team while in office, but the GOP blocked them at every turn. Now that it's over the GOP suddenly wants to make themselves look good. What makes the situation look serious now, that you couldn't have seen three years ago?

I'm a Republican, and I jumped ship because of the corruption of the Bush administration. If I could see the problem from my small town in Louisiana, why couldn't they see it in Washington?
[ Posted at 1:00 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] Memo - Guest-d00d
Yep. And spending 40 million taxpayer dollars (just for Ken Star) to investigate the Clintons for three years is fine, but investigating Bush over torture would tear the country apart.
[ Posted at 1:20 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] none - Guest-kranger
Republican Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had this to say:

This is outrageous. We should at least take a look at what happened and ask ourselves, should we take some action to try to prevent abuses that do occur?
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they wouldn't be called abuses if they weren't bad, douche bag. lets think of the word abuse..sex abuse, drug abuse, power abuse..yes we should prevent abuse from taking place and

ms noonan, if you wanted to impeach clinton so badly for getting his d wet, but say that things need to be kept mysterious about bush's abuse of power, this just does not say much about you and your idea of justice. Fool.
[ Posted at 2:49 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] it's strategery - Guest-roachy
they're calling for investigations because they know high level democrats will also be swept up. in other words, if they're going down, the dems are going with them and rightfully so, they're all crooks.
[ Posted at 3:01 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
GOP Senators are like Duffman....they say a lot of things.

When the time comes, they will vote with their party and against common sense.
[ Posted at 3:27 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]

u know i find it funny during the week we have to pick a heath person to run thing an out break pops out i find the really funny how bout u

[ Posted at 5:35 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
While Republicans are calling for investigations, Democrats are fighting amongst themselves.

http://www.newsy.com/videos/next_to_nil_1/
[ Posted at 6:32 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
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Great article. Thanks for the information.

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[ Posted at 9:13 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] LOL - Guest-Anonymous
It's about time, but it probably wont happen.
[ Posted at 10:07 PM on 4/27/09 | Reply ]
[-] Where's Bush - Guest-ICORPInvestigationsInc
As if we already didn't know, it's pretty obvious who's been pulling the strings for the last 8 years. DICK seems to be everywhere these days. His legacy is what hes fighting for. Not sure why. His legacy is pretty much cemented in stone.....As usual, Bush has no interest in any of whats going on in Washington.

ICORP Investigations, Inc. Website Link
[ Posted at 3:20 PM on 6/3/09 | Reply ]

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