the repubs are busily planning a full-out PR initiative if it comes to pass.
GOP plots contempt strategy
By: John Bresnahan
Oct 31, 2007 06:16 AM EST
With House Democrats considering a floor vote on a contempt resolution against current and former White House aides, Republicans have begun privately plotting a public relations offensive designed to persuade the majority party to drop the issue and move on.
Top GOP leadership and Judiciary Committee staff held a strategy session Tuesday to discuss targeting conservative Democrats — especially those who represent Republican-friendly districts — with floor speeches, private lobbying and other efforts, if Democrats proceed with plans to hold top White House officials in contempt, according to participants in the meeting. Republicans called the emergency session after learning top Democrats were privately asking their members if they should force votes to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for failing to provide testimony as part of congressional investigations.
Democratic leaders also circulated a “whip question” to the members of their caucus, asking if they would support the contempt resolution — and the e-mail fell into GOP hands.
“A vote for these resolutions would direct the speaker to refer the criminal contempt charges to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who is required by law to present them to a grand jury,” the Democratic document said.
Committee Democrats want to question Miers, now back in private practice in Dallas, on the role of the White House in the sacking of nine U.S. attorneys last year. Bolten was subpoenaed as the official custodian of internal White House documents related to the prosecutor purge
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