The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush’s confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated.
Angry Republicans boycotted the vote and staged a walkout.
The vote was 223-32 Thursday to hold presidential chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt. The citations charge Miers with failing to testify and accuse her and Bolten of refusing Congress’ demands for documents related to the 2006-2007 firings.
Republicans said Democrats should instead be working on extending a law - set to expire Saturday - allowing the government to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails in the United States in cases of suspected terrorist activity.
The White House said the Justice Department would not ask the U.S. attorney to pursue the House contempt charges.
It is the first time in 25 years that a full chamber of Congress has voted on a contempt of Congress citation.
They walked out! They simply took their ball and went home! And it did not even do them any good.
So to sum up, the Republicans tried desperately to keep ex-Chief of Staff Bolton and ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers from being held in contempt for interfering in a Congressional inquiry into potential wrong doing by the White House. While at the same time getting pissy with the Democrats for not voting to continue to allow our government to spy on its citizens.
Oh yeah this is going to be a BIG problem for these Republicans come the next election.
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