Washington: George W. Bush

You may have heard recently that former President George W. Bush’s former White House Counsel sent a letter to Karl Rove (via Rove’s attorney) telling Rove not to testify before or produce documents to a congressional subcommittee investigating possible malfeasance by the Bush Administration. The letter claimed Executive Privilege, stated that Rove had total immunity, and therefore could not testify before Congress.

To say that the former President was stretching the concepts of privilege and immunity beyond the breaking point is a colossal understatement. One can only hope that Congress brings contempt proceedings against Rove rather than buckle to the former President.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Seattle), the long-serving 7th District U.S. Congressman, made remarks on the House floor this morning in favor of the impeachment of President George W. Bush. He said that, after a long struggle with the implication of one of the House's "gravest" decisions,  he was signing onto a resolution to consider the impeachment of President Bush based on evidence from three new books by Ron Suskind, Vincent Bugliosi and Bob Woodward.

[img_assist|nid=2003|title=U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=left|width=240|height=242]DENVER --The dean of Washington's congressional delegation who has served the 6th District since 1977, Norm Dicks, gave his take on the Democratic presidential race from an insider's perspective.

First off Dicks, who was an early supporter of Hillary Clinton, gave the Clintons their due.

The campaign to re-elect Democratic Governor Chris Gregoire is on television with its first official campaign ad of the cycle. The ad, seen below, focuses mainly on economic issues and continues with the campaign's strategy of making President Bush an opposite entity from Gregoire and Washington state.