Contempt is the issue

Hunter has an excellent diary on the front page about Harriet Miers and contempt of Congress.  That's great, but I find it hard to believe no diary on the rec list is about this issue.  Instead, discussion about Cindy Sheehan seems to be dominating DKos today.

There are plenty of important issues for us to discuss, but today, at this moment, the most important one is contempt of Congress.  We need to make sure our representatives know this!

I hope Conyers and Leahy are about to file contempt charges against Miers, but even if so, you wouldn't know it from media coverage today.  

The charge probably needs to be inherent contempt, because of the outrageous situation in which the White House can direct its politicized DC Attorney to fail to prosecute a contempt charge related to how the US Attorneys became politicized in the first place.

This is the time the administration must be held to account.  It is now or never.  If Miers is allowed to get away with failing to respond to a Congressional subpoena--not just claiming immunity on certain questions but failing to show up entirely--then there is no hope of any meaningful investigation or administration accountability on anything.  The coup will be complete, and George Bush will be our tyrant.  That's dramatic language, but really, how much more blatant can lawbreaking be?

This is not about politics, it is about our democracy.

Let those who represent you in Congress know that you have noticed and you care.  And if you can, let the media know you have noticed that they are fiddling while Rome burns.

•  Stop contempt for our democracy

  NOW

  by UU VIEW on Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 01:55:24 PM PDT

•  Wow, what diary placement

  I honestly don't care if this diary receives any attention--it isn't adding much new, except that I want to make explicit that this should be a priority for action calls.

  Snark is great, but I recced the diary above (after this) in the list, not the one below.

  I suppose the Sara Taylor diary could be considered to be on this topic, but we must not miss Hunter's point that not showing up at all takes contempt of Congress to a whole new level.  This is contempt, obstruction, abuse of power--the whole ball of wax.

  by UU VIEW on Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 02:18:25 PM PDT