Signs Of Spine By: Mark W Adams

Is our Congress learnin'?

“House Democratic leaders” are “privately surveying their members” to determine “support for a criminal contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for shunning congressional subpoenas in the U.S. attorney investigation,” which could happen “as ealy as next week.”

--ThinkProgress

Come on guys (and Madame Speaker), don't let France act like they've got bigger balls than y9u.

International human rights groups have filed a lawsuit in France against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for allowing torture at detention centers in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. The groups say that Rumsfeld should be detained when he visits France on Friday for authorizing human rights abuses.

--The Same Lovable Lefties

I'm not too sure that this qualifies. But we'll see, won't we.

"Simply stated, it would be grossly irresponsible for Congress to grant blanket immunity for companies without even knowing whether their conduct was legal or not. And, importantly, this view is shared by the Chairman and Ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

--Steney Hoyer

Where the rubber meets the road is deciding that the cost of war is too much, and figuring out a way to pay for it all anyway -- or not at all. I'm guessing spines will be conspicuously absent the day 41+ Senators decide there will be no filibuster on Bush's war budget request.

But you have to admit, Nancy is getting clever.