Is there a backbone in the House?

Perhaps there is… interestingly, in House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers of Michigan, the same man who now has the Henry Hyde Memorial “I can impeach you if I feel like it” chair… as Conyers announced he would schedule a vote on a contempt citation to nail the asses of Bush-toadies Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers for their delibrate and contemptuous failure to appear to answer Congressional subpoenas to testify in the U.S. Attorney conspiracy scandal.
You’ll recall that the President insists that he can not only order his former subordinates not to testify despite his own failure to properly seek a court order quashing Congress’s subpoena, but that he can order the Justice Department to defy Congress’s direct order to enforce a contempt citation, both of which are no brainer impeachable offenses, particularly since the “executive privilege” is being invoked to cover up a scheme designed to subvert the administration of justice in this country for the purpose of stealing elections.
Anyway, the President’s official plan was to have the Democrats do what they usually do, i.e., roll-over… it seems that Conyers just might not do that this time…
Maybe it was Cindy Sheehan screaming for impeachment (and getting her ass arrested) right outside his office that did it… maybe it’s polling data that show that the public trusts the Democrats in Congress more than Bush on Iraq…
Who knows why. While it’s not how we’d bet, we will take this as a very, very optimistic sign that maybe, just maybe, Bush’s six and a half year long “in your face” to Democrats may be nearing its end… Democrats, as the party in majority in both houses of Congress, have vast, vast power… if they have the backbone to use it. We’ll see…