Election? What Election?

by digby

Yesterday, Pat Leahy said this on “This Week”:

Leahy: I don’t know what this Mr Fielding’s talking about. I’ve never met him, I understand he’s a very nice man. And I’m not sure who he’s negotiating with on capitol hill. The power on putting on the agendas and putting on subpoenas is mine and that will be on Thursday of this week when they’ll be voted on. They’ll be one for Karl Rove and on for Harriet Miers and one for her deputy.

Guess what? Apparently somebody thinks he’s still the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee:

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the committee, said he had a long talk with Fielding on Friday and was reserving judgment. Specter said he would like to see Rove and Miers testify openly.

“I want to see exactly what the White House response is,” Specter said. “Maybe the White House will come back and say, ‘We’ll permit them to be interviewed and we’ll give them all the records.'”

I sure hope Arlen lets Pat know, because Pat seemed just a little bit peeved that the White House was pretending that their little hand-picked robots were still in charge of congress. Pretending the Democrats are invisible won’t make them go away.

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