GOP Walks Out on Contempt Vote
After eight years of sitting still, it turns out that Republicans do know how to get up and move. Today, they walked out of the House's vote to hold Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers in contempt over the firing of US Attorney Generals. From the Hill:
House Republicans Thursday left the chamber ahead of a vote seeking to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys. The move was intended to show that Republicans want to work on a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rather than be part of a “partisan fishing expedition,” as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it.
If by "fishing expidition" they mean "holding people responsible for the unfathomable mess we're still trying to find our way through," then sure. Boehner continued:
The president will delay his trip to Africa to deal with this critical issue. And Republicans are prepared to stay here as long as it takes to complete our work,” Boehner added. “The terrorist threat to our country is not going away. We must do everything we can to protect the American people, and we should start by passing the bipartisan Senate bill.”
Staying here as long as it takes, i.e. walking out. Making sense as always, the ever-reliable GOP.
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It's Josh Bolten with an E.
The plural of Attorney General is Attorneys General.