Backbone

The House has passed a contempt resolution on Miers and Bolton. But Mukasey has already said he won't enforce it.

This thing is headed to the courts. If the Supreme Court upholds this ridiculous overdefinition of executive privilege, which basically argues that anyone in the executive branch never has to answer to Congress, and undermines the entire constitutional provision for checks and balances, then one of the most important tenants of American democracy will have been sacrificed.

This motion is the beginning, anyway. After the Senate's shameful capitulation on illegal wiretapping, a scandal which saw the illegal destruction of millions of White House emails, it is nice to witness a rare showing of Democratic backbone.