The sad thing is the media, yes the "liberal media", is promoting this as a "Showdown between Bush and the Democrats"...this is not accurate and not supported by the facts. The thing is "Showdown" (cue ELO) sells better and makes people listen more than spilling out a long list of facts.

So, if you think this is a partisan issue I would ask the following of those who feel this way:

1. Why did the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law vote "without objection" and according to most sources unanimously and unchallenged to authorize subpoenas for Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, William Kelley, and Scott Jennings and also to compel the production of documents related to the firings from those officials and Gonzales, Fielding and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolton? 

Only FOX News as far as I know has reported minor dissent during the vote but they list no source for this and it appears to be untrue. The dissent was said only to question how Coyners and the committee would proceed once the subpoenas were authorized not to question authorization of the subpoenas.

Now what you need to know is this, the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law is not a committee of just Democrats, there are 17 Republicans on the committee and none of them made any motion or spoke to qualify their vote in defense of the president or the White House. 

This means that both the Democrats AND the Republicans on the committee smell something is very very wrong. There was no "partisan showdown" during the vote. The Republicans went the same way as the Democrats...they see a big problem.

Now to be fair and for the purpose of putting all info before you, here are the committee members:

Chairman

Republican

So, the vote to subpoena was NOT partisan. You should be clear on that.

2. Why did the Senate vote 92-4 to repeal the portion of the Patriot Act which gave the Attorney General the right to appoint new US Attorneys without congressional oversight?

This means, if you are paying attention, the Republicans and Democrats again went the same way on this issue because they can clearly see that there is something wrong here. Once again not a vote along partisan lines but a near unanimous vote to repeal this power from the Patriot Act.

Sorry, but this is not a partisan issue and the people promoting it as the Democrats just trying to make trouble for Bushco are being dishonest.

These votes show there is across the board agreement that something is wrong and the whole situation is playing out like Nixon trying to hold on to his tapes...Republicans and Democrats seem to be coming together on the idea that it's time the Bush White House does some serious explaining.