Pelosi suggests she supports contempt charges for Harriet Miers
 Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi implied through her official website that she will support contempt charges that could be brought in the full House of Representatives against White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
Jesse Lee, who produces the Speaker's official blog, The Gavel, suggested that Pelosi supports the contempt charges that the House Judiciary Committee will bring up on Wednesday.
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled her support over the weekend," Lee wrote Monday morning as he pointed to a San Francisco Chronicle article published Sunday.
In the Chronicle article, reporter Wyatt Buchanan reported that Miers would face contempt charges at the weekend.
"They have disregarded the call of Congress for information about their politicizing the Department of Justice. We can document that. Those are actual facts and we will bring the contempt of Congress forth," Buchanan quoted the California Democrat saying at a weekend appearance in San Francisco.
Monday morning, the House Judiciary Committee announced that it will consider contempt charges for Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten in a Wednesday hearing. After the Committee votes, a contempt charges will be referred to the full House.
Pelosi has come in for criticism from her party's progressive wing for stating repeatedly that tough measures like impeachment were 'off the table' in the 110th Congress.
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