Rove says he won't comply with congressional subpoenas

How about a new sitcom …let’s call it “The Inmates”…

Scene 1 : In the shower...

Cheney : Oups, dropped my soap Karl !

Greek Chorus : Don’t bend over if you are smart !

Rove : I’ll get Scooter…

Cheney : Mossad wisked him back !

Karl, I’m in a wheel chair, my back is gone...

Greek Chorus : Don’t bend over if you are smart !

Tune in next week and hear Karl say….OUUUUUCH !

Retro moment in a changed world. Hope a big foot squashes him.

why can't I 'not-comply' with a subpoena? really? I'll get a warrant issued and I'd be arrested... why isn't he?

I want to be able to ignore suboena's too!

For the average American ignoring a subpoena can get them thrown in jail. Rove has knowledge about the issue so there should not be an exception for him. The law on executive privilege should be changed except in cases involving national security.

Brendan, you might conceivably be right. However, the otherwise consistent pattern of White House involvement in absolutely everything else--arguably most disastrously in preventing NASA scientists from making public their evidence on global warming--means that a reasonable person would find it hardly credible that in this one department they weren't involved.

And no reasonable person can be expected to take either your word for it or mine. Especially since so many people directly involved have testified on the record that the White House was deeply involved.

More important, regardless of what you or I might *think*, Karl Rove *knows* first hand. The extra-constitutional concept of "executive privilege" might be of positive benefit to our democracy--but only if it is reserved for matters involving national security and international relations. It cannot be allowed in matters of politics or illegality.

If Rove can make the case that this involves delicate matters relating to national security, then let him do so. The privilege will hold. Everyone can go home happy. If he can't make that case, though, then he must either testify or go to jail.

Wouldn't matter which party or which executive were involved. Tom Daschle should have paid his taxes. Tom DeLay should have honored the laws governing campaign finance. If Raul Emanuel were involved, I'd maintain the same position: If it involves national security or delicate matters of international relations, I'm grudgingly OK with a claim of executive privilege. If it involves purely political, let alone illegal, matters, then no. Testify or go to jail.

The executive branch, bottom to top and back again, is no more above the law than any other citizen of this nation. Democracy is defined by rule of law. Dictatorship is defined by such principles as blanket executive privilege and immunity from legal accountability.

I wouldn't want Cheney or Bush to be an absolute dictator. And I rather suspect you wouldn't want Obama or Biden to be an absolute dictator. The same rules must apply to everyone.

Why does this guy remind me of J. Edgar Hoover.

Everything is executive privelege. How can you expect your subordinates to commit criminal acts for you if they half to go to court to explain them?

Points for the pic.

If I were there in that photo, I would later be arrested for assault with hot wax.

I hope he gets exactly whats coming to him... the smug little prick.

Congress had better show some cojones here, even if that means sending their own master-at-arms to arrest the smarmy little bastard. Our nation needs to preserve what's left of the balance of powers.

Is that your hairy back Banshee? And since when did youn get so chummy with Rove? I thought you and Rummy had a thing going on?

Haha what a pic..If he does not comply , then toss his butt in jail, where he belongs

he deserves to go to jail, that fat bastrad

You should have put your top on before they took your picture with Rove, shame on you!

I hope he does resist them.

Then I hope his ass gets fried for being in contempt of Congress.

It's the least he deserves.

What an arrogant asshole, all he would have to do is testify about it. Does he really care about Bush's legacy that much? Or does he just think he's above the law?

nice pic. good think i dont sleep or else i'd be having a nightmare tonight

Oh my God will someone take these arrogant bastards down already?

Wow. that sounds like a Bush torture tactic. Isn't that what we're fighting against?

Then he should be dragged through the streets and stoned to death on the white house lawn...

You can't arrest him for citing executive privilege. It's a stretch to even blame him. It's a perfectly legal response on Rove's part. Why is Congress even wasting its time sending the subpoena? It's just chest puffing.

I'm not a fan of Rove by any stretch of the imagination but if we start bending and breaking laws to throw him in jail, aren't we just stooping to his level?

"I am above the law!"

Great photo, Banshee! You crack me up. Karl Rove sucks.

seriously...why haven't they just sent the marshall's after him already? fuckin arrest the fucktard (I love that word)

Levinworth is beautiful this time of year.