The triple-coated, GOP, Apple Pie Defense of Harriet Miers? Marini's Apple Pie Caramel Apples, coated in caramel, dipped in white chocolate, and sprinkled with apple pie spices and cinnamon, are hand dipped to perfection and made right here on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
Thoughts on the contempt of Harriet Miers.
Boy, the legality of the President's assertion of privledge looks really complicated. But to me it is simple.
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1. Sure, the President has presumption of privledged communications. It does facilitate things, although I think it is frequently overblown as much as has been widely acknowledged that the government classifies way, way too much stuff.
2. That presumption, of course, went by the wayside just as soon as Gonzales failed to run an appropriate performance review process. Samson's bottom-draw file with some handwritten notes and "lists" of people that circulated just doesn't cut it, in the face of evidence of Dominici's phone call and Taylor's e-mail about "getting rid" of people ("getting rid" - does that sound like a detailed, documented process for removing under-performers)?
3. So all the President's men (the GOP) are out to protect the Executive branch, allegedly. And the other folks? Are they just out for themselves, for their own political gain, to 'take down' the President, as those who suggest, quite shockingly, that nothing "wrong" or "inappropriate" was done, like Tom DeLay, who encouraged the President to stand firm against his political rivals on that basis on talk shows?
No, they are out to protect the Judiciary, the credibility of impartial justice, against naked, uncorroborated, undocumented assertions that nothing improper occurred.
Now, in that kind of struggle, between the Executive privledge and the Judiciary credibility, which do you think ought to win?
I don't think it is any contest what should happen in court on the matter, given that the President's own have compromised whatever privledge he and they enjoyed to the extent that there own actions have left serious questions that need to be answered in order to restore credibility.
From that perspective, it's not complicated, it's open-and-shut, yes?
The question remains as to why it should take so long to get a judicial review of the President's claim ...
