Holy fucking shit! House Republicans do their job!

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Wednesday December 14, 2005 · 5:37 PM PST

2005/12/14 · 17:37

No, really. I kid you not. What is going on here? Seriously, take a look at this:

House Panel Subpoenas Rumsfeld on Katrina

The year is 2005. Republicans still control Congress AND the White House.

However, something is in the water--Congressional Republicans are doing their damn job even if it means clashing with other Republicans.

WASHINGTON - A House committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina issued a subpoena Wednesday to force Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to turn over documents but stopped short of sending a similar legal demand to the White House.

The subpoena commands Rumsfeld to produce internal records and communications about the
Pentagon's response to the Aug. 29 storm, including efforts to send supplies to victims, stabilize public safety and mobilize active duty forces in the Gulf Coast. It requires the Pentagon to deliver the documents, spanning from Aug. 23 to Sept. 15, from Rumsfeld and eight other top military officials by Dec. 30.

Seriously, what the fuck? I mean, what could be more shocking than this?

Oh shit.

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers said they were frustrated by the administration's failures to provide the House investigation with internal memos, e-mails and other documents before and after the storm hit.

Pentagon spokesman Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz said the panel's requests for information have been "very far-reaching and very broad, and we're doing everything we can to answer them as quickly as we can.

"We're going to provide the documents as fast as we can," Swiergosz said. "No one has been dragging their feet on these things."

The chairman of the special House committee rejected, for now, legal action against the White House, but left open the possibility of a future subpoena. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., asked lawmakers to wait until after a private briefing Thursday at the White House before deciding whether to go ahead with a subpoena.

"We cannot do our job if we don't get these documents, and we won't get these documents if we don't subpoena them," said Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La.

That's right--House Republicans are not only performing their constitutional oversight responsibility by getting in Rumsfeld's grill, they're working with DEMOCRATS while doing so?

I'm open to explanations.

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