Well, I have two Cornish hens in the rotisserie, another two in the crock pot and some dirty rice simmering on the stove. I'm going to eat well at work this weekend. You gotta hand it to William Jefferson, DEMOCRAT from Louisiana. He's gone from moxy to chutzpa. Not only was he caught on video, accepting a $100,000 bribe in an FBI sting -- and joking about FBI surveillance while doing it, not only was $90,000 found wrapped like leftover Hamburger Helper in his freezer, he is saying he is innocent and has rejected a demand by Nancy Pelosi to resign his position on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. The only way he can be ejected is by a two-thirds vote of the House. If the Republicans were smart, they'd vote to retain him. But when's the last time Republicans have done the smart thing? Not since the Contract with America.
There goes the DNC's "culture of corruption" battle plan. I'm hoping this drags out for a long time. Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans have their fur standing up over the FBI's raid on Jefferson's House office. They say it's a violation of the separation of powers. Nope. The FBI had a search warrant, signed by a judge (the judicial branch) and the search was perfectly legal. The House today will debate it. It seems never before in the history of our country has the Justice Department searched the office of a congressman. Well, never before in the history of our government has a congressman been caught so blatantly red-handed. The politicos are deliberately misinterpreting section 6 of Article I of the Constitution: In no case, except in treason, felony, and breach of the peace, can Members be arrested while attending sessions of Congress ``and in going to and returning from the same. . . .'' Furthermore, the Members cannot be questioned in any other place for remarks made in Congress. I'm no lawyer (a little help here, Tonto?), but I'd think accepting a $100,000 bribe would fall into the category of a felony. That clause was put into the Constitution to prevent a president from detaining members of Congress so they couldn't vote on a bill he didn't like. It's probably what kept that great liberal FDR at bay. He was able to throw only Japanese-Americans into prison camps, not Republicans. It was not meant to be a form of diplomatic immunity that allows a congressman to, oh say, drive a car under the influence of sleeping pills, pain killers and alcohol and smash into a security barrier on Capitol Hill. Or to walk away from a submerged car, leaving a young woman to suffocate to death at the bottom of a cold, black pond. When are these Republicans going to wise up and take advantage of a gift from Heaven when it falls in their lap? If the situation were reversed, the Democrats would be piling wood around a stake on the National Mall to immolate the offending Republican. There's a wide gap between being a gentleman and being a total wuss. Bush doesn't get that either.
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Your interpretation of law is right on...this is just like when Clinton was going to be deposed /sit for a deposition under oath...they said it couldn't be done while in office but in the end it was correctly found that he could be deposed for things he had done outside the time he was office.
They are using the same argument as they did with Clinton that it has never been done before and not meant to be done this way...they just do it to see how far they can take it and if it will divert attention and waste time from the real issue...that he's a criminal.
...and to play victim that the Repub's are just out to humiliate and go on a witch hunt...same old...same old.
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