The endless Bush Administration Misconduct Hearings

By GottaLaff

Trent Franks: Be scared. The terrorists want to kill us. And Baghdad is the hub of terrorism. The Democrats are irresponsible. The greatest failure of the administration was allowing 9/11 to occur, and Bush tried to respond by doing everything he could to protect us. I'm getting overwrought.

Rabkin: Bush is trying to keep us safe. We should just try to factor that into our understanding. Bush wasn't the worst president, Buchanan was.

Franks: We're going after the president for trying to protect us.

Schwarz: His tactics made us less safe. Using torture...[gets cut off]

Gohmert: The witnesses can't dictate the procedure.

Mel Watt: Re: Franks: If Bush and Ashcroft, then the next AG, is protecting me against terrorism, who's protecting me against them? [applause] Impeachment can distract... It can't be routinely used... We wouldn't have the votes we need... blahblah... Maybe there's another way. If someone brings a resolution, I'll be here every step of the way, but I won't lead the parade right now. Impeach him by voting in November 2008.

Gohmert: If misleading Congress is impeachable, how can people testifying say what they say? [paraphrased] I support the signing statement idea. I was for the sunset clause in the Patriot Act. But these statements here are brash. "They lied, they lied about WMD"... it's time to forgive Clinton and Madeline Albright for their lies. And Bush was too naive for believing Clinton and Albright. Valerie Plame lied. Joe Wilson wrote the op-ed saying he was worried about WMD. I don't even know what this guy is talking about... Something about France stealing the headlines about Food for Oil corruption... The Supreme Court pulled a bait and switch on detainees....

Zoe Lofgren: Assuming we're not in impeachment mode, how do we set things right? "I told you so" isn't satisfying. Suspension of habeaus corpus, we don't have the authority to do that. Being right does me no good... Commissions to dig in, to find out the things we don't know?

Schwarz: I recommend a 9/11 type commission, people who understand the Constititution. That would free the Congress to work on secrecy, legislative matters.