Harmor
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+605|6806|San Diego, CA, USA
I'm curious what the newly elected Democrats will investigate first now that they have control of one and possiblly both houses?

  • Big Oil?
  • Cigarettes?
  • Halaburton?
  • Iraq's WMDs?
  • Impeach President Bush?


These are just a few categories listed above; I'm sure there are others.

Additionally, will investigating any or all of the above help or hinder Democratic chances in the 2008 election?
King_County_Downy
shitfaced
+2,791|6855|Seattle

Iraq stuff.
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
LawJik
The Skeptical Realist
+48|6789|Amherst, MA
Rumsfeld apparently, considering the insta-resign.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,979|6889|949

Harmor wrote:

I'm curious what the newly elected Democrats will investigate first now that they have control of one and possiblly both houses?   Congress = House and Senate.  No two Houses.

  • Big Oil? what is there to investigate?
  • Cigarettes? see comment above
  • Halaburton? Halliburton.  The GAO (a nonpartisan group) is investigating them right now
  • Iraq's WMDs? Hopefully they leave that to the IAEA and/or the UN
  • Impeach President Bush?
pointless, even if they did do that (which I don't find very likely) by the time all the legal documents were filed, Bush would be out of office.

These are just a few categories listed above; I'm sure there are others.

Additionally, will investigating any or all of the above help or hinder Democratic chances in the 2008 election?

Last edited by KEN-JENNINGS (2006-11-08 16:11:15)

IRONCHEF
Member
+385|6748|Northern California
John Conyers is now the head of the judiciary committee and he's been the only one pursuing impeachment.  I still get his emails.  So I'm guessing he'll procede and get an independent counsel (Ken Starr, where are you?) and have at it.  It's not like there's a shortage of impeachable criteria to prosecute.  I think impeachment is useless but I would pay money to see Bush be told he has to testify under oath..then watch him lie..then watch him go to jail!

The first thing that will be investigated will be oversight on the war.  The way the president illegally began the current warfare was by manipulating the war powers act.  He and his cabinet (good thing rummy got out now!)(including ashcroft, powell, etc) will all be subpoena'd and deposed by Pelosi and other oversight committee members...and it will be ugly.  It will be thorough, and the whole MSM will be consumed with it, EVERY talk show will talk about it, every talking head will spin it, and at least a dozen books will come out with titles like "The end of the bush empire..."

And they'll do all this while neglecting their congressional duties! lol
smtt686
this is the best we can do?
+95|6889|USA
instead of fixing what they think is broken, they go and attack it instead of making things better... Keep it up and in 2 years hastert will be back!

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