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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:03 PM
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Tony Snow Responds To House Contempt Charges:
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 12:36 PM by Hissyspit
"In our view, this is pathetic," he said, continuing that the charges were about "partisanship," "insults," and "accusations" when Congress and the White House "should be working together."

Via CNN.

UPDATE FROM AP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_go_co/prosecutors_contempt

And the White House accused the Democrats of engaging in political theater.

"Now we have a situation where there is an attempt to do something that's never been done in American history, which is to assail the concept of executive privilege which hails back to the administration of George Washington and in particular to use criminal contempt charges against the White House chief of staff and the White House legal counsel," said White House Spokesman Tony Snow.

Snow used two video screens on either side of the White House lectern with images illustrating that the White House has provided documents that, if stacked up, would be twice as high as the White House.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:05 PM
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1. No,Tony.What is pathetic is that these charges have to be brought
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 12:06 PM by saracat
in order to attempt to force the WH to "work together" with Congress!
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:06 PM
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2. Sorry Tony! The Pub Congress is GONE! Get over it! n/t
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:06 PM
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3. A natural and predictable response from a BushCo stooge.




If he didn't work for such an asshole I might feel sorry for Tony Baloney for having the worst job in DC.
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:06 PM
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4. Um, the fact that you assholes ever got into the W.H. is pathetic!!
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:26 PM
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25. I'd say it was more criminal than pathetic.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:06 PM
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5. Am I correct in thinking
That anything other than grabbing your ankles and presenting yourself to the urges of the Whitehouse can be dismissed as "political theater?"
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:08 PM
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9. To answer your question:
Yes.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:07 PM
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6. The days of "working together" = "quietly sign the checks" are over, Tony.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:07 PM
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7. he called it theater


Tony is under real pressure now.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:09 PM
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10. Ironic considering Bush's scripted Town Hall meetings and Jeff Gannon. n/t
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:07 PM
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8. they are pathetic.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:09 PM
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11. Tony forgets that it is this Adm that continuelly DIVIDES!
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:13 PM
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15. Uniter?


.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:09 PM
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12. p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pppppp
pathetic
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LeftNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:11 PM
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13. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! nt
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:12 PM
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14. Tony Snow can kiss by lily white butt!
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:30 PM
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26. He can bite my shiny metal ass!
Hey, Snow:
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:14 PM
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16. You're looking pretty wasted, Tony. Sure you don't want to
come clean before you meet your maker? From the looks of you, I'd say that's going to be any day now.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:19 PM
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20. He does look like shit n/t
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:16 PM
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17. Tony, the pathetic thing is that a dying man will spend his last weeks flacking...
for criminals.
Really no surprise, though. Snow is a corrupt scumbag. His impending death DOES NOT ennoble him.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:21 PM
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24. I couldn't agree more.
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 12:22 PM by Sentinel Chicken
Don't look for any condolences from me when he dies.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:17 PM
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18. Oh just shut the hell up, Tony! Time for you to retire and spend more time with the family, don'tcha
think?

Repukes wrote the BOOK on partisan politics! Do the Clinton days RING A FUCKING BELL????
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zehnkatzen Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:17 PM
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19. Who was it that said that bipartisanship is another word for date rape?...
...oh, yeah...it was a Republican.

Looks like the foot's on the other hand now...eh, Kramer?


:D
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:19 PM
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21. What's pathetic is the Republican's are putting this country through
yet another constitutional crisis. They are literally forcing the Democrats to impeach them.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:19 PM
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22. How they possibly get away with this ruse of accusations of partisanship
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 12:24 PM by stellanoir
when. . .duh. . .we have a two party system (or used to). . .and "political theater". . .when. . .duh. . .they are frigging politicians, is mind boggling. It flies in the face of very nature of our political system.

The degree of shadow projection is utterly stunning.

I wish we could find out how much this "misadministration" has spent on sets and photo ops over the past 6 & 1/2 years.

Has to be a HUGELY exorbitant amount.

Centcom's set, the codpiece, the fake turkey, the NOLA photo op, to say nothing of all the Christ like (not) stage sets with jingoistic slogans sprawled across the stage.

Unbelievable really.
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zehnkatzen Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 12:34 AM
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30. Speaking of projection...
...I have noticed, with all that has gone on, what the Republicans accuse the Democrats of doing is a pretty good indication of what the Republicans themselves are actually doing or have in mind to do, from expanding the government's power at the expense of its non-elite citizenry to nonsupport of troops to activities that have the whiff of treason.

All you have to do to divine the Repubicans' strategy is look at what they're accusing everyone else of doing. Pretty handy guide.
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That Is Quite Enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:21 PM
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23. The White House has no qualms about not working with Congress...
Why should Congress feel indebted to have to work with them?
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:38 PM
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27. "when Congress and the White House should be working together."
Good Lord -- this guy must have the biggest set of balls in history!!

Hello! Tony? Anyone home in there??
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:53 PM
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29. He wants accomplices, not representation.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 12:48 PM
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28. He was obviously wearing his White House Projection Secretary hat.
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 12:52 PM by TahitiNut
An administration that claims their inability to do their job without assuming autocratic powers exceeding those of any President in all of our history is calling their opponents 'pathetic'?? It seems to me that their admission of complete incompetence is far more pathitic.

An administration assuming one-party rule for 6 years calls their opposition "partisans"? That's not merely pots and kettles ... that's projection of the most extreme order.

When a criminal administration calls for Congress and the White House to "be working together," it's like the Mafia claiming that crime families and police should be "working together." They want accomplices, not honesty.

Snowjob is batshit insane.
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