{"id":11189,"date":"2007-03-21T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/21\/there-are-offers-then-there-are-non-offers.html"},"modified":"2007-03-21T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T16:25:33","slug":"there_are_offers_then_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/there_are_offers_then_the.html","title":{"rendered":"There are offers, then there are non-offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sensitive, and appreciative, of Separation of Powers issues. That having been said … jeez.<\/p>\n

For the President to say he’s going to extraordinary and unprecedented lengths to cooperation with Congressional investigations into the whole US Attorney Firing brouhaha by making available Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify is simply a partisan joke, made all the less funny by his stealing a march and making the whole thing out to be a partisan attack by the Congressional majority. The “joke” part:<\/p>\n

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  1. The testimony would not be under oath. If they lie through their teeth, there’s no penalty.<\/li>\n
  2. The testimony would be in private. Only the Congressional committees involved would get to hear what was being said. Not the public.<\/li>\n
  3. No notes, no transcripts, no recordings. Thus, not only keeping it private, but unaccountable — they can claim anything attributed to them was not what they actually said, or was misinterpreted, or was just a partisan attack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even if they, and the White House, were as pure as the driven snow in this, it would be a bad arrangement. It shows the Administration’s abiding penchant for secrecy and unaccountability. And it shows that they’re at least as willing to play partisan games as the Dems, and more desperate to do so. Kudos to the Democratic committee chairmen for not taking the deal and doing so in a non-strident fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am sensitive, and appreciative, of Separation of Powers issues. That having been said … jeez.For the President to say he’s going to extraordinary and unprecedented lengths to cooperation with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23751,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/newt-loves-outsourcing-government.html","url_meta":{"origin":11189,"position":0},"title":"Newt Loves Outsourcing Government","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is not beyond reproach, but it's the closest thing we have to a neutral party for cutting through the political, partisan posturing as to what the financial impacts of various proposed laws would actually be. 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