Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>a very weak horse for the congress to ride in a contest with the executive branch<<<


Maybe so but at what political cost? Refusing to comply with 3 lousy subpoenas for the purpose of investigating possible corruption of the justice system pretty much guarantees some comparisons with the past. Like this:


Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas card list to identify potential Democratic donors.

The government reform panel alone, for example, issued 1,052 subpoenas related to investigations of the Clinton administration and the Democratic National Committee from 1997 to 2002, and only 11 subpoenas related to allegations of Republican abuse.

The panel received more than 2 million pages of documents and heard from 44 Clinton administration officials, including two White House chiefs of staff, according to statistics culled by Democratic staff on the Government Reform Committee.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/20/congress_reduces_its_oversight_role...


What's the defense from the WH again? Political games?