{"id":15143,"date":"2009-10-20T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15143"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:35:24","slug":"most-ethical-congress-in-history-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15143","title":{"rendered":"Most Ethical Congress in History at it Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elections have consequences and when you elect enough criminals, this is precisely how they will behave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Faced with a promised vote to subpoena documents on Countrywide Financial’s “Friends of Angelo” program, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fled a scheduled 2 p.m. markup today.<\/p>\n

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, had promised to call for a vote at today’s markup on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic government officials, including two senators. According to the Wall Street Journal, the program might have also benefitted the chairman of House Oversight, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.<\/p>\n

Even if it had been ruled out of Order, Issa’s motion would have received a vote.
\nThe committee’s Democrats simply failed to appear. Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are 24 Democrats on the committee that are overtly protecting criminal behavior and obstructing a member of Congress from demanding the documents that would obviously prove it.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that 24 members of Congress have conspired to thwart the investigation of a crime involving members of their own caucus. This action was taken solely to prevent a legal action by a Congressional committee to obtain evidence of a possible crime.<\/p>\n

This ain\u2019t just wrong, it\u2019s frigging illegal!<\/p>\n

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 19 > \u00a7 372
\nIf two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Chicago way my friends. Don\u2019t let it be said that the folks weren\u2019t warned because they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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