A modern day Spiro T. Agnew

Right on the heels of telling his fellow GOP congressmen to "get off their dead asses" and go scare up some money, Boehner is on a roll in the language department.

Ms. Pelosi demanded that the department pursue misdemeanor charges against Harriet E. Miers, former White House counsel, for refusing to testify to Congress about the dismissals of federal prosecutors in 2006 and against Joshua B. Bolten, the chief of staff, for failing to turn over White House documents related to the dismissals.

Ms. Pelosi gave Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey one week to respond and said that his refusal to take the matter to a grand jury would result in the House’s filing a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration.

The White House branded the request, which came two weeks after the House voted to hold Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten in contempt, as “truly contemptible.” The Justice Department said it had received Ms. Pelosi’s request. It noted “longstanding department precedent” against letting a United States attorney refer a Congressional contempt citation to a grand jury or prosecute an executive branch.

The House Republican leader, John A. Boehner of Ohio, said, “This sort of pandering to the left-wing fever swamps of loony liberal activists does nothing to make America safer.”

Ms. Pelosi’s action was the latest chapter in a yearlong battle that began with the firings of nine federal prosecutors and led to the resignation of Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general. “There is no authority by which persons may wholly ignore a subpoena and fail to appear as directed because a president unilaterally instructs them to do so,” Ms. Pelosi wrote to Mr. Mukasey.

He's a nattering nabob of nonsense.