Reply #12: I just responded to that. Sigh. [View All]

[Kagemusha]

Because I can't take what I heard second hand as fact, that's why. I don't personally know the senate rules. I know that there is no precedent for um... actually I have no idea what the original poster wants to see done. But that's different from knowing the rules myself, personally, as my own authority.

I have read enough history to have the understanding that this is how it is done, that Congress has never just commanded someone arrested instantly for not showing up after having been given a dubious claim of why it's not necessary. People are given an opportunity to 'come to Jesus' and if they don't, i.e. if they persist in contempt, that's when the law comes down hard. It has never been faster, ever. Why it should be now, I don't understand. Five days compared to the history of the Republic is nothing.

But harp on how I'm a know-nothing moron all you like. I'm out of here.