<p>Trouble is, the WH has already said that it will not allow the DOJ to enforce the law re: Meiers and others. So Congress would have to send the Sargeant of Arms to arrest her. </p>
<p>Congress is well within its legal rights to do this, but I have a feeling that the neocons would spin this to the uneducated as a coup attempt.</p>
<p>“I tell you, they’re coated in Teflon, those members of the Bush administration.”</p>
<p>Speaking as a Democrat, it always seems to me that Republican political figures are coated in Teflon, while Dems are covered in Velcro. For example, anyone with a brain knew the “swiftboating” of John Kerry was pure hogwash, but the lying accusations nevertheless made an impression–at least with the percentage of the populace who lack brains.</p>
<p>The mainstream media has devoted 3 times more coverage to the cost of Edwards’s haircut than to Giuliani’s lie about being at Ground Zero more than the workers. All the more amazing when one realises the lie wasn’t just a harmless self-aggrandizing fib, but was told in an effort to downplay the workers’ exposure to health hazards.</p>
<p>And they’ve devoted absolutely no time to the price of Fred Thompson’s Gucci loafers. </p>
<p>I really don’t see an end to this. As long as some voters reject empiricism and logic in favor of the smear campaign, there will be people like Karl Rove to give it to them.</p>