Get Yer Constitutional Crisis Rally Caps On

We've got the makings of one. MSNBC reports:

Fred Fielding, he's the White House counsel, he was just here in the House of Representatives meeting with the House Judiciary Committee. He made the following offer to the Congress, both House and Senate...he said Rove and Harriet Miers would be offered to the Committees for their testimony in the Alberto Gonzales and federal prosecutors scandal. However, he said it would be unsworn testimony, not under oath, behind closed doors and no trancript would be permitted.

The Senate, led by Schumer, has rejected this. And the House will seek subpoenas of Rove and Miers at the very least.

Incidentally White House aides have testified all the time in past Administrations. There is no wall between the Congress and people who work in the White House, nor should there be.

This will be an immense showdown, the one that the White House has been steeling for practically since the November election. It's likely that they WANT to force this to get the wingers back on their side.

The bottom line is that if Miers and Rove refuse to testify under subpoena, they can be sent to jail. And the White House can fight that but that's the law. I see no way that the Dems go wobbly on this one. Let the showdown begin.