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[Adventurer]

Published on Friday, November 10, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times
Democrats Are Set to Subpoena
The new majority is expected to hold hearings on military spending and the Iraq war -- just for starters.

by Richard B. Schmitt and Richard Simon

WASHINGTON - Rep. Ike Skelton knows what he will do in one of his first acts as chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the Democratic-led House: resurrect the subcommittee on oversight and investigations.


NEW MAJORITY: Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York, Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois head to a celebration.
(Dennis Cook / AP)

The panel was disbanded by the Republicans after they won control of Congress in 1994. Now, Skelton (D-Mo.) intends to use it as a forum to probe Pentagon spending and the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war.

It has been 12 years since Democrats were in control of both the House and Senate. But they are looking to make up for lost time, and in some cases, make the Bush administration and its business allies sweat.

With control of every committee in Congress starting in January, the new majority will inherit broad powers to subpoena and investigate. And that is expected to translate into wide-ranging and contentious hearings.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1110-01.htm

[Satori]

Good.

[EFLtrainer]

Yup. The key is to be somewhat selective about what to go after so as not to seem petty, but to also not be afraid to do what must be done to restore the primacy of Law. Impeachments must happen. Before people get their red panties in a bunch poo in their blue panties, undertsand that impeachment is a process, not a conclusion. We need them as a vehicle to the kind of depth of investigation that will happen only due to that process, a process that addresses the fundamental primacy of the Constitution over the presidency.

[TheUrbanMyth]

I doubt much will happen. The Democrats have too many skeletons in their closet. Business as usual...with maybe a few small timers thrown to the wolves.

[laogaiguk]

[TheUrbanMyth]

I guess I should have put a smiley there.

[laogaiguk]

As for the OP, as much as I would love to see Bush go through impeachment, watch him SUFFER and squirm for the crap he has done (him and his cronies), you have to ask yourself if impeachment would be the best choice for America right now? I think it would do more harm than good.

[Octavius Hite]

If I were the Dems I would start with three things: 1. Downing Street Memos and the "reason" for the war 2. Halliburton and war profiteering (we would all love to see an old time hangin' for war profiteering) 3. Cheney and the energy policy meetings he held with Big Oil.

These three things would not only find total sympathy with the American public but they could cripple the Republicans in the next cycle.

[Adventurer]

[EFLtrainer]

[EFLtrainer]

[canuckistan]

Halliburton's completely unrestrained feeding at the gov't trough and no-competition awarding of contracts for starters.

[Kuros]

[EFLtrainer]