Chris Cannon speak to something he knows well: Political Theater

The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to cite former White House adviser Karl Rove with contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about his involvement in the prosecution of an Alabama Democrat and the firing of several U.S. attorneys.
Rep. Chris Cannon, a Utah Republican on the committee, voted with his fellow party members against passing a resolution calling for Rove to be held in contempt. Cannon dismissed the effort as "theater."
Cannon accused Democrats of trying to set up Rove for a potential jail sentence even though President Bush extended executive privilege to his former deputy chief of staff excluding him from testifying before the panel. "So what's the point of holding Mr. Rove in contempt? There is none," Cannon said at the hearing. "It's all an attempt to selectively throw Karl Rove into a criminal-contempt docket."
Rove, who graduated from Olympus High and attended the University of Utah, was a top political adviser to Bush. Democrats insist he has not cleared up questions of political intervention in the firing of several U.S. attorneys and his involvement in the prosection of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

This is the same Chris Cannon who lead the House fight in the impeachment of Bill Clinton 10 years ago.....

I'm prouderest of my country!

OK, so there was this big flap a few days ago. Michelle Obama said that for the first time in her life, she was proud of her country. Cindy McCain then responded that she, too, is proud of her country.

If fact, this is what she said:

“I just wanted to make the statement that I have and always will be proud of my country.”

So, Mrs. McCain, what is it about this country that has made you proud?

Is it the war you husband was fighting when he was shot down and became a POW your freshman year of high school?

Is it the selling of WMDs to Saddam Hussein in the 80's? Maybe the arming and support of Osama bin Laden during the same time?

Maybe it was the lurid affair of Bill Clinton during the 90's that made you so proud. I know I was proud of America when I heard about oral sex every night on the news.

Maybe you were proud of your country when Karl Rove and George W Bush drug your husband's name, as well as you adopted son, through the mud in South Carolina in 2000?

And, we've barely gotten to this decade.

-Bob