As Karl Rove and other top administration officials are being subpoenaed, I tend to look at the political motives of the Democrats in office.
I feel as if I agree with the congress as they assert their power over the President. The 2006 mid-term election did give them the power to do so. However I think that they are trying to look for things to complain about.
I think President Bush's offer, to allow administration officials to be interviewed behind closed doors and not on tape was a satisfactory offer.
The Associated Press says, Bush had sought to avoid the "media spectacle" that would result from public hearings with Rove and others at the witness table.
I happen to agree with the President that the Democrats in some ways are trying to make the Republican party look worse then they already do.
"The question they've got to ask themselves is, are you more interested in a political spectacle than getting the truth?" Tony Snow said Tuesday, I agree with the position the White House has taken on this issue.
I also agree that the U.S. Congress has the right to do its job by performing oversight over the administration, however they are going about it in the wrong way.
What do you think?
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The problem with the President's offer is that there is no guarantee that the House and Senate Judiciary Committe will get the truth. And then if they decide to subpoena Rove, Myers, and others, they will not be able to hold them accountable if their stories then change.
When first approached, the administration should have said "We reserve to the right to hire/fire Federal Prosecutors at the will of the President, with or without proper reason" - this would have been an acceptable, legal response. Instead, the administration came up with a faulty excuse to cover their tracks of firing 8 federal prosecutors building cases against Congressional officials for corruption (noone is sure whether they were Dem's or Rep's)
Though the current course of either Judiciary Committe can seem excessive, the Republican Congress of 2000-2006 has created this situation by not fulfilling any responsibilities of oversight in that time.
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