I know I'm among friends here, so I'm part ranting and raging, and part sincerely asking: is there ANYthing that would at LEAST cause Congress to convene hearings? About ANYthing?
I mean, I could generate a way too long diary list of stuff, so I just picked a few favorites that, on some other planet, should have raised enough eyebrows for some action:
First of all, post-Iraq-invasion, there was the memory of that PNAC memo to Clinton urging him to take over Iraq, January 26, 1998 (includes fun signatories like Donald Rumsfeld,Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle). Then, how about when Andrew Card made that
absurdly revealing, yet strangely ignored "marketing" statement about Iraq in September 2002. Then, of course, we have the pResident
lying in the State of the Union address about Iraq attempting to obtain uranium from Niger, January 2002. Of course this brings us to
Joseph Wilson outing the pResident as a liar on July 6th, 2003, which brings us immediately to
White House sources blowing Wilson's wife's cover as a NOC for the CIA. The icing on the cake, of course, is
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's revelations that Bush admin plans for Iraq takeover began as early as ten days after the 2001 inauguration, January 9, 2004.
Naturally, the immediate press reaction has been to report on the pResident's trip south of the border; Cheney's fundraising visit to the west coast; and--finally!--an investigation! (into O'Neill's conduct, of course.)
So, I ask you: what WOULD it take to get hearings convened? Hell, I'm not even asking for impeachment hearings. I'd just like to know what it would take to get somebody in Congress to convene hearings on the President's team's conduct. Whaddaya think?