# How aggressively should Congress investigate what?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 8, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aggressively-should-congress-investigate-what/379607 "2006-11-08T21:04:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aggressively-should-congress-investigate-what/379607/61 "2006-11-15T17:53:43Z")

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Bush after an extremely close election, declared it a mandate. He then went after a one sided agenda .

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**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aggressively-should-congress-investigate-what/379607/62 "2006-11-15T18:20:36Z")

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The question is, what can the Democrats investigate that will take less than 2 years to uncover? If they’re going to investigate anything, what they need is a slam-dunk; an investigation that drags out to January 19, 2009, will give Bush a chance to pardon whoever’s in the hot seat. What would he care? He won’t be stumping for his political allies at that point.

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