Where is the wrong doing?

Question

"For my part in allowing what should have been a routine process of assuring the Congress that nothing untoward occurred to become an ugly, undignified spectacle, I want to apologize," said Sampson, who resigned this month as Gonzales' chief of staff.
The probe is part of the drive-by Democratic-led Congress to increase oversight over how the Bush administration operates. Since taking power in January, Democrats have held more than 200 oversight hearings, about half on the Iraq war.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/pl_nm/usa_prosecutors_dc_5

Answer 1

The wrongdoing is the Democrats partisan witch hunt.

Answer 2

Do you think that maybe there is a need for oversight? The Bush Administration has enjoyed six years of doing whatever the heck it wants, without limits. They have screwed Iraq up terribly. Americans have died unnecessarily. Shouldn't that warrant some oversight? Would you give your kids the checkbook and not demand to know what they spent? Oversight is the critical check and balance that's been missing since this administration has highjacked this country.

Answer 3

Don't forget that Congress are the representatives of the people. When Bush flouts Congress, he is actually telling the people to go take a hike. So, you can easily understand why so many people hate Bush with a purple passion and deplore the day he was ever installed in the Oval Office.

The people of America have the right to expect the president to bow to their will, because they are the ultimate deciders, not him. The founding fathers never expected, nor wanted the executive to have unitary power, since they had just extricated themselves from the grip of one monarch. In the end, I expect Herr Bush's extreme power grab to engender several amendments to the Constitution to prevent such things from occurring in the future.

Answer 4

You mean, why is Congress doing what the Constitution requires them to do? Or do you mean, how dare Congress assert that it is actually an equal branch of government?

. It's not something the President can do under the Constitution. He's not a monarch, despite what he thinks.

So, the idea that Congress is betraying American because they are doing what the Constitution explicitly makes their sole province is irrational. And the thought that they simply have to roll over and do whatever the President wants is a perverse distortion of what the Founders intended when they created separate branches of government.

Answer 5

Yeah, ain't it great to see our government functioning the way it is supposed to? And about darn time, too. More than a few chickens are coming home to roost now, and the conservatives are crying the blues like a bunch of spoiled kids whose parents finally say no.

Answer 6

So you think the opinion of one man is all it takes to determine the truth?

Okay. Many people think Bill Clinton did nothing wrong - would you agree?

I didn't think so. Neither would I. So let's listen to ALL the testimony before we determine wrong or right, shall we?

Besides, no one is saying wrong was definitely done. The purpose of an investigation is to find out whether it was or not. It's as much to exonerate as it is to prosecute.

Answer 7

You are more handsome than my husband. :-))