After having said, prior to the August Congressional recess, that the House would vote on a criminal contempt resolution against Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolton the Democratic leadership has come back and said “Not yet.”

Maybe while on recess they realized the hullaballoo about the U.S. Attorneys firings was much ado about nothing, which it is.

This doesn’t mean everyone is happy and singing Kumbaya around the Democratic caucus campground.

The decision delays any constitutional showdown, at least for the moment, between Congress and President Bush over the extent of executive privilege and the president’s ability to fend off congressional investigations.

But the slowdown, approved by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her top lieutenants, is also stirring objections among Democrats.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said he is uncomfortable with the delay and worries the House will be seen as toothless unless it moves quickly to hold top officials in contempt for failing to provide documents and testimony in congressional probes.

The House Judiciary Committee approved contempt citations against Bolten and Miers on July 25, after the two failed to comply with subpoenas as part of the committee’s investigation into the sacking of nine U.S. attorneys.

With the dismal record of the current Congress someone needs to inform Mr. Conyers it’s a bit late to worry about being called “toothless”. No significant legislation has been passed and the changes promised have not occurred.

This Congress has only been interested in two things since it took over in January: forcing the president to bring home the troops before the mission is completed, and investigating scandals that don’t exist.

Just before Congress changed hands Congressman Henry Waxman of California said the hardest part of his job would be to decide what to investigate first.

That statement shows exactly where the Democrats’ agenda is, and even that’s a failed agenda.

Tuesday the Speaker issued a press release actually acknowledging her hands are tied.

“The American people long ago rejected the President’s plan to stay in Iraq, which is why they voted for a New Direction in 2006. Yet, with his veto pen and the 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, the President is preventing the redeployment of our troops, the rebuilding of our military, and the refocusing of our nation’s efforts on fighting terrorism.”

How convenient to be concerned about our troops in the sense they want to rebuild the military when we’ve never seen anyone in Democratic leadership positions in the past fifty years who has wanted to rebuild our military.

The Democrats’ idea of fighting terrorism is to conduct a few bombing runs and blow up an aspirin factory and then claim they did everything possible to get rid of the terrorists.

Meanwhile, the terrorists attack us on our own soil, killing nearly 3,000 Americans and they’re worried about the “abuse” we meted out when we “tortured” people at Abu Ghraib.

The Speaker of the House and other Democrats, including Dennis Kucinich, are more worried about appeasing the terror-sponsoring regime of Assad in Syria than in getting the terrorists who still want to kill us or convert us whether or not we leave Iraq immediately.