we should do what some Republican citizens have started doing: Mailing pairs of balls to Congress-Critters, along with letters essentially saying: "Here, you need these to do what your constituents ask and xxxxxxxxxx..."

Ah to have a Party *not* dedicated to snatching defeat from the Jaws of Victory......

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"God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." -- Robin Williams

Contempt of Congress is prosecuted by the US DOJ, which is required to proceed. In spite of this requirement the Bush DOJ ignored Congressional action, forcing the issue into the courts, where the Josh Bolton/Harriet Myers issues is now bogged down.

Presumably, the Obama DOJ will carry out its responsibilities. Rove will appeal, and the case will likely go to SCOTUS eventually, unless the Bolton-Myers case resolves the issue. But W seems determined to test his view of executive privilege, which is "novel," since there is no precedent for this extension of interpretation.

The Obama WH is expected to take a different view, and many constitutional experts think that SCOTUS will side with this president instead of expanding presidential authority without a constitutional basis. This is the real issue that is being fought. Rove is just a pawn in the game that Cheney et al concocted in the Nixon years and finally got to impose through W.