Congressional Ass-Bite
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – “Leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill accused the FBI on Tuesday of overstepping constitutional boundaries designed to protect Congress when it raided a Democratic lawmaker's office over the weekend.”
Yeah, it’s a real bitch isn’t it? We’ve been pissing and moaning about similar things and not so many on Capitol Hill gave a damn until these new and unfettered bushkin laws came up and bit them right on their own Congressional asses. They hugged the Patriot Act. (Acts 1 and 2). They showed so much outrage over the NSA wiretapping deal that they are about to hand the architect of that plan to us as the head of the CIA. When we are being invaded daily through patriotic prying, most of them ignore our hue and cry. Funny now that they are feeling the fear of their own offices being the target of FBI raids, they raise hell. I have an idea. Why don’t they hold an investigative hearing about this and then forget about it? That’s how they’ve handled everything else.
(Update to this post)
“The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from senior U.S. law enforcement officials.
Federal officials say the information implicating Hastert was developed from convicted lobbyists who are now cooperating with the government.”
More at ABC News
Now it all makes a bit more sense, doesn't it?
Yeah, it’s a real bitch isn’t it? We’ve been pissing and moaning about similar things and not so many on Capitol Hill gave a damn until these new and unfettered bushkin laws came up and bit them right on their own Congressional asses. They hugged the Patriot Act. (Acts 1 and 2). They showed so much outrage over the NSA wiretapping deal that they are about to hand the architect of that plan to us as the head of the CIA. When we are being invaded daily through patriotic prying, most of them ignore our hue and cry. Funny now that they are feeling the fear of their own offices being the target of FBI raids, they raise hell. I have an idea. Why don’t they hold an investigative hearing about this and then forget about it? That’s how they’ve handled everything else.
(Update to this post)
“The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from senior U.S. law enforcement officials.
Federal officials say the information implicating Hastert was developed from convicted lobbyists who are now cooperating with the government.”
More at ABC News
Now it all makes a bit more sense, doesn't it?
posted by pissed off patricia at 6:25 AM
14 Comments:
Sad, but true. Some people only care when the criminals are in their own house.
Amen, heretik! As long as he's next door, no worries.
Yep, now the legislators may want to repel the Patriot act! lol
That's how it'll end - an investigation will start, and go nowhere, and then quietly die.
...And be replaced with mindless debate about English being the national language.
They told us if we had nothing to hide we shouldn't worry about our phones being tapped by NSA. If they have nothing to hide they shouldn't worry about their offices being raided by the FBI. Right?
No one is above the law, even law makers, it is about time they learned that. I'm glad they are feeling the pinch as we do. If they weren't so stupid, they would realize they get investigated just like we do. Remember J. Edgar and his collection of information on people, politicians, actors etc.? They have to be fools not to believe they get investigated, possibly more than we get investigated.
Oh gosh, no. They couldn't possibly investigate this. They aren't through with steroids in baseball for heavens sake. A national emergency if I've ever seen one.
It's amazing how many rights and freedoms have slid away, with so little fuss, so little muss...
I hope the political winds shift hugely this fall.
Maybe this time, impeachment will be within reach...there is a system of checks and balances for a reason, but the congress needs to rent a spine to get there. Good thing we can vote one in there come november.
Rent a spine...LOL! Yeah...I'm waiting for the vote in November...look out suckers!
...love your catchy titles! Oh, not to mention your slightly abrasive edge... you go, girl!
I think the only reason The White House is getting all twitchy about the FBI raiding Congressional offices is the fear that when subpoena season finally comes around they will be next. It’s OK that a Democrat has been taken down, of course; but they know it will be Republicans like Hastert next – so they want to plug up any loopholes that might allow this to happen to them.
And such a 'juicy' ass-bite it is!
Raiding offices, investigations.....sounds a lot like the fiasco in the Watergate a while back. They were Republicans if I'm remembering correctly. But alas, we also had Rostenkowski in Illinois.
Oh well, burlap sacks with heavy rocks could take care of them all. Maybe I won't vote. It'll just encourage them.
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