Rule 21 And The Aftermath
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General PoliticsBoy, are people pissed off today! In one fell swoop, Harry Reid pulled the conversation back to the Iraq war and away from Samuel Alito. Amazing strategic move.
This quote in particular made me laugh.
“The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership,� said Majority Leader Bill Frist during the tense hours on Capitol Hill. “They have no convictions, they have no principles, they have no ideas.�
First off, hijacked? Please, by the very rules of Congress?
Also, I’d certainly have to disagree with the “no ideas” part because this certainly was a humdinger.
Now, was it a cheap trick? No doubt, but that doesn’t mean it was wrong. After all, if Dennis Hastert and company can leave the vote open for nearly 3 hours to persuade enough colleagues to pass the prescription drug bill in 2003, what exactly is wrong with having a closed session of Congress?
So what’s really at issue?
The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., produced a 511-page report last summer on flaws of an Iraq intelligence estimate assembled by the country’s top analysts in October 2002, and he promised a second phase would look at issues that couldn’t be finalized in the first year of work.The committee had started the second phase of the review, Roberts said, but it has not been completed. He said he had intended all along to work on the second phase beginning next week.
Hehe, well, now it’s certain Roberts will have it next week. I’d have it ready simply out of spite.
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