It looks like the Democratic Party takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections may finally start paying off for justice and democracy in America, although the White House is still fighting to keep its de facto Monarchy going by obstructing justice.

The Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees threatened a constitutional showdown with the White House Wednesday if the Bush administration does not comply with subpoenas issued for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and political director Sara Taylor.

This marks the first time Congress has reached directly inside the White House in the probe of the political firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to the AP.

"The bread crumbs in this investigation have always led to 1600 Pennsylvania," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich. "This investigation will not end until the White House complies with the demands of this subpoena in a timely and reasonable manner so that we may get to the bottom of this."

"The White House cannot have it both ways - it cannot stonewall congressional investigations by refusing to provide documents and witnesses while claiming nothing improper occurred," added Senate Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

Complying with the subpoenas could set a precedent for testimony by another adviser, not yet on the subpoena list, but one who a lot of people want to talk to about political minipulation of the Justice Department. That would be, you guessed it, Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove.

There's more smoke being reported by Scott Horton at the Harper's magazine blog "No Comment" today. He's definetely one to watch, and says in the U.S. Attorneys scandal: All Roads Lead to Karl Rove.

And there's growing evidence that Civil Rights in the Bush Justice Department is also just a cynical joke: “Civil Rights” in the Gonzales Justice Department.

And, Alice Martin, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, is under investigation by the Justice Department for whether she committed perjury in a deposition related to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against Martin’s office, according to the Political Parlor blog.

We are not surprised by much these days, although we did not expect to see such a blatant bias on the part of the Alabama news media in its coverage of the Jill Simpson affidavit story as well as the coverage of the Siegelman, Scrushy trial. Siegelman and Scrushy are both portrayed as pathetic beggers today: Siegelman, Scrushy Ask Court for Leniency, while in fact, the evidence is mounting that U.S. Justice Mark Fuller has a clear conflict of interest and should never have sat in judgement of Siegelman and Scrushy at all. Where is the coverage of that issue by the corporate, chain newspapers in this state?

Now that we are finally digging into the documents of the 2002 and 2006 elections in Alabama, it is becoming obvious that election theft did take place in Bay Minette in 2002 and that it was directed by Karl Rove. We knew he was a political genius who has been called Bush's Brain. But we did not know the extent to which he was tuned in to the details of who controls every ballot box in the country.

The Bush crowd is no better than the scheming Monarchs in Europe under King Henry VIII portrayed in "The Tudors" on Showtime.

What we want to know is: When will the other heads roll in Washington?

Gonzales has to go. And someone needs to subpoena Karl Rove, before its too late...