Well, people are using the Economy to get out of all sorts of obligations, why not use it to avoid prosecution?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/fashion/15benefit.html?scp=1&sq=recession%20excuse&st=cse

Congress screws up, allows Wall Street and the corporations to screw up, allows the CEOs to keep their unearned bonus system, the extreamly wealthy to keep their tax dodges, and all of them together expect the average American taxpayer to understand that he has a "patriotic responsibility" to pay for it.

Let the big time financial losers scream all they want.

We need a president who knows how to use a club for the right things just as GWB used a club for the wrong things.

This bipartisian, nicety stuff isn't going to cut it.

I think once a real malaise sets in over the economy and we start to hear more anger expressed about how badly bush has screwed the pooch, we're going to see a lot less resistance to the idea of investigating the bush admin over torture.

people may just want revenge on these guys, even if it's over something else.

in other words, these two issues may not be all that far apart.

I gotta say I am loving the sunshine on Sen Cornyn right now. Every day I see another ray of sunshine shine on him there for every one to see is the GOP at its finest. Chutzpah to say the least. Others might call him an ingrate but to each his own. Truly sad that no one in Texas could stand up and take this guy down (Sorry, Rick Noriega). There is always hope or maybe I should view as a blessing that the entire country gets to see the crap we have slung from Texas lately, politically speaking of course!

The Bush Administration was awash in criminal acts. The reason to not assign all this to one or more Congressional Committees, or a single blue ribbon commission, is that there are just too many crimes for one such organization to get them all. Some division of labor is needed. Holder needs to do some management - categorizing types of crimes, getting a rough approximation of the number of acts within each division so as to assess personnel requirements, working with the Senate and House to figure out which types and how many crimes they want to tackle (and assigning sufficient liaison staff to assure that immunity grants to not unknowingly prevent prosecution), and assigning remaining crimes to the various investigative and prosecutorial arms of the Federal Government.

I happen to agree with Cornyn that a Congressional investigation would take too much time and divert attention from the economic mess Cornyn and his cohorts created. For that reason, I support appointment of a number of special prosecutors to take the various scandals to grand juries. In the alternative, just render the whole Bush crowd to the Netherlands and let the International Criminal Court do its thing.

Sen. Cornyn, We have a President and new Administration that can do more than one thing at a time. We must have an investigation for the sake of the Constitution.

DoJ should drop everything it's doing and focus on the economy? Why?

Following the AP article link, I see that the AP starts right off with their slant:"A Democratic-proposed 'truth commission' to investigate the Bush administration is generating more partisanship in a Congress already filled with it."

Nevermind truth. Partisanship! Boogah boogah boogah!

How Cornyn-esque. Amazing the lengths Republicans will go to to protect G. W. Bush. Never in the history of our country will any expenditure be more worth while than money spent on investigating the malfeasance of the Bush 43 regime. It was during his tenure that the darkest days in the annals of American history occurred and we need a full report to let the sunshine into his disgusting record. Strange the different ideas Republicans have in their response to a simple romantic peccadillo of a previous administration to the disgusting war crimes of Bush43. Then they try to say the Bush investigation is not needed. How like a bunch of two-faced Republicans.

Nothing to see here, move along. Cornyn must think all Americans are as easily led as his Texas Republican supporters. We have a new administration and a Democratic Congress that can actually multitask. Part of the healing process after the Bush years is the restoration of the rule of law and holding evil doers accountable.

Lets just increase the scope of the investigative committee to include not only civil liberties and human rights abuses, but lets look into some of the misuse of power and other abuses of authority that led to this fiscal crisis in the first place.

An over-arching investigation into these abuses of fiscal oversight might help prevent future collapses, and I would wager that there are tendrils entwined in the human rights and civil liberties issues that connect directly to some of the same abusers who allowed this fiscal crisis to unfold in the first place.

Double down on Cornyn, every time he cries wolf, give him one.