What good is being the majority party if you still act like the minority party?

[Horse with no Name]

What good is subpoena power if you refuse to follow through the procedure? What good are they if people ignore them and you just wring your hands?
What good are investigations if you refuse to prosecute the ones who break the rules?
What good is the Constitution if you omit the part about impeaching.

At this point, with so many impeachable offenses...the ONLY thing on the table should be impeachment.
If we don't do that, we can kiss this country goodbye--if it's not too late already.

[leftofthedial]

1. majority, minority . . . doesn't matter

they act like the *other* party

[Warren Stupidity]

2. The unwillingness to challenge is astounding.

Why is Rice not arrested for contempt of congress?

[Horse with no Name]

3. I know

Why go through the motions of issuing a subpoena if they don't mean it?
They are definitely neutering themselves.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. I'll take your first question

"What good is subpoena power if you refuse to follow through the procedure?"

Although I definitely share your frustration, I think I have an answer to that one. I'm guessing that the Democrats are hoping that approving subpoenas will goad the Rethugs into compliance. Of course, that assumes an alert and tenacious mass media. (Oops! Never mind.) The problem with actually serving those subpoenas is that it will almost certainly spark a "Constitutional crisis," a court battle that will ultimately be settled by the SCOTUS, which, given its Federalist Society predilections, is unlikely to come out on the side of democracy.

[LiberalFighter]

6. My list of Federalist Society members

Abegg, Heidi K
Abraham, Edward Spencer
Adler, Jonathan H
Alessandro, Adrienne
Alexander, Lawrence A
Alexander, Rachel
Alito, Samuel Anthony Jr
Allen, William J
Ambler, Robert R Jr
Ammeen, James J Jr
Apperson, Jay
Arca, Emil
Arkes, Hadley P
Ashcraft, Thomas J
Askin, David
Atcachunas, Christopher J
Atkinson, Frank B
Attridge, R Byron
Ayers, Marc J
Ayoub, Nicholas S
Azar, Alex M III
Bainbridge, Stephen M
Baker, Bobby
Baker, David N
Baker, John S Jr
Baker, M Miller
Baldwin, Gordon Brewster
Balsam, Jodi S
Barnett, Randy E
Barrante, William T
Barry, James T III
Battle, Michael
Beckwith, Francis J
Behrens, Mark A
Bell, Tom W
Belleau, Ashley L
Belmar, Warren
Berenson, Bradford A
Berliner, Dana
Berns, Walter
Berres, Terrence R
Berstein, David E
BeVier, Lillian R
Biber, Kathryn E
Biegel, Adam J
Bilodeau, Andrew R
Blackwell, Keith R
Blake, Francis S
Boldrey, R Lance
Bolick, Clint
Bolton, John Robert
Bonney, Larry J
Bopp, James H Jr
Bork, Robert Heron
Bourdreau, Karen
Bowers, Michael J
Boyle, F Ladson
Bradbury, Steven G
Bradley, Gerard
Bradley, Rebecca G
Brand, Rachel L
Braniff, William
Brannigan, Joseph P
Brennan, Michael B
Brille, Brian J
Brown, Eric S
Bryan, John Stewart III
Budzynski, Lisa
Bullock, Scott G
Burkart, Gregory
Burling, James S
Butler, George E II
Bybee, Jay S
Calabresi, Steven G
Cannon, Joseph A
Carman, Gregory W
Carr, Christopher M
Carroll, Michael
Carvin, Michael A
Cass, Ronald A
Cassell, Cynthia G
Cassell, Paul G
Chalmers, Doug
Chavez, Linda
Chertoff, Michael
Ciongoli, Adam G
Clark, Jeffrey B
Clarke, Shaun G
Clegg, Roger
Clement, Edith Brown
Clement, Paul D
Coffey, John Louis
Coffin, Shannen
Cohen, Laurence D
Coleman, Ronald D
Comstock, Barbara
Condon, Charles Molony
Cook, Deborah L
Cooper, Charles J
Cooperstein, Theodore M
Cormier, Amos J III
Corrigan, Maura Denise
Coulter, Ann Hart
Cox, Sean Francis
Cramton, Roger C
Cribb, T Kenneth Jr
Cruz, R Ted
Curry, John J
Curtis, Robert J
Dahlen, Karl R
Danhof, William J
Daugherty, Donald A Jr
Davis, Robert N
DeBow, Michael E
Delchin, Steven A
Dent, George W Jr
Destro, Robert A
Dettling, Aaron L
Dhillon, Harmeet K
Dillard, Stephen Louis A
Dinh, Viet D
Dodd, John L
Dokupil, Susanna
Donahue, Tom
Dorminey, Elizabeth K
Dortzbach, Kenneth A
Duffey, William S Jr
Dunlop, Becky Norton
Dunn, Gerald T
Dunne, Jack
Dye, Alan P
Easterbrook, Frank Hoover
Eastman, John C
Eaton, Daniel E
Edelman, Mark P
Edwards, James R
Eig, Spencer
Eitel, Nan Roberts
Eitel, Robert S
Ekren, Christopher W
Elcock, Marc A
Elson, Charles M
Ely, Bert
Engler, John M
English, Gregory J
Enoch, Craig T
Epstein, Richard A
Estrada, Miguel A
Fiechter, Michael
Fisher, Alice S
Fisher, D Michael
Flanigan, Timothy E
Flaum, David M
Fleischman, Edward H
Forst, Alan Orantes
Francisco, Noel J
Freedman, Robert L
Frey, Adam
Friedlander, Joel
Friedman, David D
Friedman, Milton
Frost, Winston L
Gadola, Paul V Jr
Gage, Hilda
Gaglione, Robert J
Garibaldi, Oscar M
Gavin, Stephen Diaz
Gentges, Daniel W
George, Robert P
Giampietro, Gordon P
Giblin, Chris
Gilmer, D Randall
Giorgino, Michael S
Goldsmith, Stephen
Goldstein, Kenneth M
Graff, Lisa
Graglia, F Carolyn
Graglia, Lino A
Gray, Clayland Boyden
Greenburg, Jan Crawford
Griesa, Thomas P
Griffin, John Timothy
Griffith, Thomas Beall
Grimsal, A Gregory
Gritzner, James E
Gutierrez, Nicolas J
Halbrook, Stephen P
Halfenger, G Michael
Hall, James M
Halpert, Stephen K
Hamilton, Marci A
Hantler, Steven B
Haraf, William
Hardiman, Thomas M
Harrington, Matthew P
Harris, Erika Worth
Harrison, Orrin L III
Harrison, Thomas F
Hart, Sarah V
Hartmann, Michael E
Hartz, Harris L
Hatch, Brent O
Hatch, Orrin Grant
Henn, R Charles Jr
Heriot, Gail
Herrington, Lois Haight
Highsmith, Robert S Jr
Ho, Allyson
Ho, Jim
Hobson, Charles L
Hodel, Donald Paul
Hogue, L Lynn
Hooper, Perry O Sr
Houston, J Gorman
Howard, Philip K
Hrdlick, Thomas R
Huber, Peter
Hull, Cordell
Irving, John S
Jacobs, Dennis G
Jones, Brian W
Jordan, Bill
Jorgensen, Jay T
Joseph, Robert
Kalt, Brian C
Kalt, Michael S
Kamenar, Paul
Kanner, Gideon
Kavanaugh, Brett M
Kearney, Joseph D
Keating, Frank Anthony II
Keisler, Peter D
Kelly, Daniel J
Kelly, Daniel
Kelner, Robert K
Kemp, William J Jr
Kemper, R Crosby
Kilberg, William Greene
Klausner, Manuel
Kmiec, Douglas W
Kobach, Kris W
Koch, Harvey C Jr
Kochan, Donald
Koenig, Jonathan H
Kopel, David B
Kors, Alan Charles
Kotelman, Laura Mary
Kozinski, Alex
Kozinski, Alex
Kram, Shirley Wohl
Krane, Steven C
Krauss, Michael I
Kristol, William
Kudlow, Lawrence
Kuhl, Carolyn B
LaJeunesse, Raymond J Jr
Lally, Ute
Lammi, Glenn
Lance, Alan G Sr
Langer, Paul D
Larson, Edward J
Lash, William H III
Lawson, Gary
Leo, Leonard A
Lester, Andrew W
Levey, Curt A
Levey, Robert A
Levinson, Daniel R
Levy, Robert A
Lewis, Anne S
Libby, I Lewis
Liddy, Raymond J
Light, Alfred Robert
Little, Peggy
Lochner, Philip R Jr
Loeser, Julius L
Lopez, Tim
Loughlin, Kearney S
Lowry, Olan B
Loya, Edduc
Lund, Nelson
Lynch, Timothy
MacDougald, Daniel
MacDougald, Harry W
Macey, Johathan
Maddox, A Hugh
Madigan, Michael J
Manne, Henry
Marcelle, Tom
Markman, Stephen J
Marshall, C Kevin
Martin, Maureen
Marzulla, Nancie G
Marzulla, Roger J
Matthews, Steve A
May, Randolph J
Mayer, David N
McAllister, Stephen R
McBride, Andrew G
McConnell, Michael W
McConnell, Robert A
McDermott, Kevin R
McFarland, Douglas D
McGinnis, John O
McIntosh, David Martin
McKeague, David William
McKenna, Lawrence M
Meara, Edward C
Medlin, John G Jr
Meese, Edwin A III
Mellor, William H III
Merrill, Tom
Meyer, Eugene B
Meyer, Eugene B
Miller, Geoffrey P
Mitchell, Cleta
Moaland, Rhonda
Moody, James
Moore, John Norton
Morgan, Thomas D
Morgan, Virginia M
Moseley, James R
Moss, Nicole Jo
Murphy, Stephen J III
Murray, Charles
Natelson, Robert G
Neilson, Susan Bieke
Nolan, Dennis R
Norton, Gale Ann
Nunez, Peter K
O'Scannlain, Kevin
Oliver, Philip D
Olsen, Theodore Bevry
Olson, Walter K
Omand, H Lillian
Otis, Lee Sarah Liberman
Otis, William G
Owen, Priscilla Richman
Painter, Richard W
Palouse, Rachel Kunjummen
Panton, David
Pardue, Joel
Patton, Matthew H
Peltz, Rick J
Pereira, Stephen F
Persons, Oscar N
Persons, W Ray
Pilon, Roger
Polsby, Daniel D
Popeo, Daniel J
Post, David Gordon
Prakash, Saikrishna B
Presser, Stephen B
Price, Angela
Price, Patty
Pritchard, Adam C
Pryor, William Holcombe Jr
Pulliam, Mark S
Rabiteau, Marsha
Ramsey, Michael D
Randa, Rudolph Thomas
Rappaport, Michael
Raul, Alan Charles
Ray, David C F
Ray, Hugh
Readler, Chad A
Redleaf, Andrew J
Redpath, Peter K
Rees, Charles W Jr
Rentz, Mary Catherine
Reuter, Dean
Reynolds, Gerald A
Reynolds, William Bradford
Rhodes, Jennifer M
Rice, Charles E
Richmond, Rick
Richner, Andrew C
Rinato, Peter M
Rivkin, David B
Robert, George
Roberts, John Grover Jr
Roderick, Sarah
Rogers, John Marshall
Rogers, Stephen D
Rolfs, Theodore R
Rosen, Gerald Ellis
Rosenkranz, Nicholas Quinn
Rosner, Michael
Ross, Trevor
Rotunda, Ronald
Rounds, Charles E
Rubin, Paul
Rudofsky, Lee P
Ryan, James Leo
Rychlak, Ronald Joseph
Ryder, John L
Saad, Henry William
Samp, Richard
Samuels, Stephen B
Sansonetti, Thomas L
Scaife, Richard Mellon
Scalia, Antonin
Scalia, Eugene
Scalia, John F
Scaperlanda, Michael A
Scheidegger, Kent
Schmitz, Joseph E
Schneider, Matthew
Schoenbrod, David S
Schroeder, Jeff
Schultz, Mark F
Schundler, Bret
Searcy, Cindy
See, Harold
Seegmiller, Travis M
Sentelle, David Bryan
Sessions, Jefferson Beauregard III
Shapiro, Ilya
Sharfman, Keith
Shepard, Randall T
Shriner, Thomas L Jr
Shublak, Mark I
Sidak, J Gregory
Siegan, Bernard
Sikora, Tom
Silverberg, Kristen L
Simon, David W
Sisk, Gregory C
Sloan, Eric R
Smith, C David
Smith, David Brooks
Smith, Joseph C Jr
Smith, Mark W
Smith, Steven D
Snider, William Garth
Solum, Lawrence
Sprizzo, John Emilio
Standen, Jeffrey
Starr, Kenneth Winston
Stathis, Nicholas John
Stein, Andrew
Stenberg, Don
Sternfels, Felix J
Stevens, Paul S
Stock, James H
Stock, Margaret D
Strickland, Frank B
Strickland, Robert L
Suhreinrich, Richard F
Suko, Lonny R
Sutro, Stephen H
Sutton, Jeffrey S
Sykes, Diane Schwerm
Talbot, Michael J
Tamargo, Maurico J
Taylor, Clifford W
Tennies, F James
Thernstrom, Abigail M
Thomas, Virginia
Thompson, Larry Dean
Tolan, David J
Toomey, Pat
Towne, David
Turner, Robert F
Tymkovich, Timothy M
Ubben, Douglas C
Uhlmann, Michael
Univer, Scott M
Urbain, Alicia
Van Alstyne, William
Van Susteren, Adam
Vaughn, Shelton M
Veenstra, Richard J
Verdery, C Stewart Jr
Vinson, Benjamin J
Vlossak, Frank C IV
Volokh, Eugene
von Spakovsky, Hans A
Wagner, David M
Wagner, Donald P
Walker, Juli
Wallace, Michael
Waller, William C
Walpin, Gerald
Ware, Stephen J
Weaver, Elizabeth A
Weaver, Russell L
Weinreb, Bradley
Weinsteen, Larry Jordan
Welsh, Peter
Welty, C Douglas
Whelan, M Edward III
Wilder, Kurtis T
Wiley, Richard E
Willard, Richard K
Willert, Randy
Williams, John F III
Williams, Ned
Williams, Paul
Williams, Walter E
Williamson, Edwin D
Wiltberger, Ken
Winer, Laurence H
Winnie, Ralph Jr
Witwer, Robert E
Wolf, M Craig
Wolfe, Christopher
Woodworth, Douglas
Wright, James E III
Yelverton, Stephen T
Yeung, Amy
Yoo, John
Young, Michael
Young, Robert P Jr
Zahra, Brian
Zatkoff, Lawrence Paul
Ziemer, David
Zohn, Edward J
Zumbrun, Ronald A
Zummo, Michael A
Zywicki, Todd J

[Rageneau]

5. Logical answers are: Skull & Bones, Illuminati, Bohemian Grove...

There seems to be a general consensus in the press and among politicians that impeachment just ain't gonna happen. Yet Clinton got impeached on the flimsiest of charges, so it's not that it CAN'T be done, it's that it WON'T be done.

But why, why why?

Perhaps there really is something to the idea that there are people who really ARE above the law, who will never be called to account for anything evil they do -- because they are protected by their complicit and powerful friends.

[Trillo]

7. Well, you see, it's all about money,

And public perceptions, as in management of.

The more Waxman investigates, the more money seems to be going to Democratic coffers. Classic shakedown strategy. Squeeze till the coins fall out.

Hurrah. Best government money can buy.