Will the House Stand Up?

It was finally a pleasant change to see that the House members did not cave in on the FISA bill. I hope that they keep from granting immunity to the major telecoms for going along with an illegal request to turn over everyone's phone records. Now something that I haven't seen since the House took the action of going on recess without voting on the revisions to the FISA or Protect America bill, it would be interesting to see if that one event had any effect on the public opinion polls. It will be interesting to see if anything becomes of their new powers to enforce their subpoenas now. It would sure be nice to see some justice carried out in the government, it's long over due.

The baseball investigation is coming to an end, good thing, we don't really need to be using tax payer's money to get that straightened out. Just when a person thinks they may be done wasting money on things that don't pertain to the government, I wouldn't hold my breath. Look for possible upcoming investigations into video taping of opposing football teams signals, that would seem to be the next big major sports issue that people will want a congressional investigation on. Give me a break.

Missing White House Emails

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been farting around with the issues of missing emails from the White House and other administration agencies for at least a year now with out any results. Even though there are laws to insure that White House and President retain and hold emails and documents to be on record for the sake of documenting history to be accessed by historians and the American public and it is well apparent that for the most part the Bush Administration isn't taking steps to insure this process, the oversight committee hasn't had any luck getting these documents so that they can do their job of oversight. Instead of pushing impeachment against Bush and Cheney for this and other crimes committed during their terms in the White House, the committee has been focusing on the use of drugs by baseball players. I guess if you can't do your job doing oversight on the government you take on important issues like the use of drugs in baseball, you know, so it doesn't look like you are just sitting on your hands letting them grow there. Maybe it's because of the frustration of not being able to provide oversight of the government that the committee has decided to take on an issue that they can handle without too much stonewalling. I think pretty much the whole process of our government is broke. For the most part, Democrats have put impeachment off the table saying that it would be a waste of time when they have so much other things of more importance that they want to address during their terms.....yeah, like baseball. Everything that Democrats have been wanting to accomplish has been loss because they are trying to deal with the administration and its illegal activities, stonewalling, and outright lies. Instead of taking care of the problem's sources, they are taking on the important task of keeping baseball honorable while they sit with their finger up their butt waiting for emails and justice to take care of itself.