The Rant

Washington - A House panel threatened to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Even as he issued the warning, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., also backed off his demand for a similar report on President Bush. "The report of the FBI interview with Vice President Cheney needs to be produced, however," Waxman wrote in a letter to Mukasey, noting that the oversight committee is set to vote July 16 on whether to cite Mukasey with contempt of Congress. "I strongly urge you to comply with the duly issued subpoena before then," Waxman said. "The committee cannot complete its inquiry into this serious matter without the report of the vice president's FBI interview." There was no immediate indication that Mukasey would comply. He has made the case

While Obama is changing everything (Yes He CAN) during the next four years, Orange County Register editorialist has a few suggestions for what Republicans should be doing to come up with a new direction for the Republican Party.   1. Less regulation, which transfers power from the people to bureaucrats.  2.  Less taxes. We pay enough.  3.  A humbler foreign policy less intent on saving the world and policing other lands.  We can't save the world.  4.  Education;  government run monopolies are not efficient or successful. Which would you rather have a government built Yugo or a Toyota?  5.  Privatizing some of the Social Security money, which currently is nothing but an unfunded,  empty promise.  6.  End corporate welfare.