And obsequiously beg his forgiveness, from their knees, for wasting his time and forcing him "ask".

I would hope Congress would become more prone to deliver pieces of legislation that matter rather than being the investigative body," he added.

A week after a deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis, President Bush on Thursday dismissed raising the federal gasoline tax to repair bridges at least until Congress changes how it spends highway money. "The way it seems to have worked is that each member on that (Transportation) committee gets to set his or her own priorities first," Bush said. "That's not the right way to prioritize the people's money. Before we raise taxes, which could affect economic growth, I would strongly urge the Congress to examine how they set priorities."

This is an Executive Branch drunk on its own fraudulently self-endowed power. I was promised that Dems control of Congress would amount to something different

In a sense that turned out to be somewhat true. The Republican Palace is flipping them off even harder now.

Leahy Sets Warrantless Wiretapping Subpoena Deadline
By Paul Kiel - August 8, 2007, 3:12 PM

Saying that he's waited long enough for the White House to comply, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy [D-Now It's Just Getting Sad] set a new deadline for documents related to the administration's warrantless wiretapping program today. August 20th is the date [...] Leahy had, at the request of White House counsel Fred Fielding, delayed a prior deadline. But now that an informal date suggested by the White House has come and gone, Leahy writes to Fielding that he's running out of patience [...]