If we had something like this, that fat lying pig Karl Rove would've cried before the committee well before now. If only the people used the tactics our elected officials used against people to force false confessions...
That would be the only way to make Turd Blossom sing.
Let's see why our dear departed aide to President Bush apparently has more power than the people...
The Federal Office of Congressional Enforcement
For a long time we've known that Congress has no teeth. They can issue subpoenas, and threaten people with contempt of Congress, but more often than not, the people they want to testify truthfully and honestly never appear willingly to be truthful or honest. Now it comes to pass that the CIA has effectively lied to them for over 8 years.
It would be disingenuous of me to say "How Dare They?!" and name them The Worst Person(s) in the world for a turn of the 24-hour news cycle, because as far as I know, those elected representatives of ours are the most powerless branch of our frighteningly overreaching federal government. Think about it—if the President doesn't like one of their laws, he skirts it by Executive Order. If the Judiciary doesn't like one of their laws, they interpret it to be a load of baloney. If Congress doesn't like what the President is doing they... And if the Congress doesn't like what the Judiciary is doing is they...
What a dilemma. Checks and balances my hairy ass. Aside from the declawed bailiffs standing by to peacefully remove rabblerousers what do they have? The power of the jails, and they are reluctant to use even that. Power to the people, who elect people to the power, to put it down in your cities, a load of unrepresentative horseshit.
It took how long to get Rove to even send them a returned questionnaire about his purported role in the firing of nine US Attorneys? These guys got no teeth. If the people want representation they need Enforcers at their back. The Congress needs a Compulsory Committee, a crew of hooded yet highly electable vigilantes whose sole purpose is to enforce the edicts of Congress. Hence the Federal Office of Congressional Enforcement. If the Bush administration was free to draft the Attorney General's Justice Department to enforce their needs, then Congress should be free to utilize the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make their voices heard.
We the people of the United States hire these posturing fools because we naively assume they have our best interests at heart, that they understand these troubling times, and especially that they have the tools to fix what ails us. We the people concede that we are stupid, and hire incompetent yet charismatic nutjobs to resolve the solvency of our Republic. As a result, we never get good results, because the people rarely recall Senators or Representatives for poor performance—even in the cases of infidelity and bathroom glory-holes we still let these unRepresentatives finish their terms, making more than most of us, because most of us don't have the energy to protest after a 16-hour day. The land of opportunity and the land of Endless Sun have merged in the working class of the United States.
Let's face it—you Richie Riches don't care about anything, as long as your trusts are replenished by your Representatives. They represent you and you alone, and those of us that voted feel stupid, as if we woke up the next morning and realized we didn't chew off our own arm, and where did that trophy girl disappear to?
It's called reality. Most of us live with one arm chopped off, and when we elect someone to surgically graft us a legislative lifeboat, we are sorely disappointed with the drowning they bequeath us. Maybe next time I'll nominate a filthy hobo for the job—they say nothing is more fierce in battle than the desperate and the hungry. Perhaps our Congress should fight in person the way they do in campaign mode. Otherwise, this nation will sink under its own underperformance. Remember the quality we expect of our elected officials is what we show to the rest of the world. If Congress has no teeth, what can we say about the people?