Why Did The GOP 'Re-Open the Investigation?'
Perhaps this piece by Murray Waas has the answer. (hat tip to C&L)
Surely the GOP either knew about this prior to yesterday's 'demonstration,' or if Waas' account is accurate, they unquestionably must now know.
One must always follow the ball. It's too close to the 2K6 elections to have the WH, and their minions in the Senate - of which one-third will be up for de-selection, erm....re-election, embroiled in controversy. The appointment of a special committee to get to the heart of a metter that the GOP claimed that they would handle, plainly looks bad.
Because of the likely, long nature of the investigation, and the gravity of the issues it would have been addressing, it's a no-brainer that the GOP would prefer to compromise..To which they really didn't agree - rather merely pledge to finish a job that they half-finished in July 2004.
A fun quote from yesterday:
Bill Frist: "They[Democrats] are without convictions"
Terrific quote for a guy under invstigation by the SEC and the Justice Dept.
The Senate Democratic leadership over the course of the last several days has had discussions among themselves, along with senior congressional staff, about the possibility of pressing the Senate to appoint a special Senate select committee to investigate both the misuse of pre-war intelligence by the Bush administration to make the case to go to war with Iraq, as well as the Plame affair, according to at least three people who have been involved in those discussions.As always, much more at link.
"There is just a resolve on this issue that is not going to go away," said one person involved in the leadership discussions. One source said that although the discussions are preliminary, they were contemplating such a select committee in the tradition of the Senate Watergate committee, the Church committee-- which investigated abuses of the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the 1970s, or the joint congressional Iran-contra committees: "There is a historical model as to how this might be done."
Surely the GOP either knew about this prior to yesterday's 'demonstration,' or if Waas' account is accurate, they unquestionably must now know.
One must always follow the ball. It's too close to the 2K6 elections to have the WH, and their minions in the Senate - of which one-third will be up for de-selection, erm....re-election, embroiled in controversy. The appointment of a special committee to get to the heart of a metter that the GOP claimed that they would handle, plainly looks bad.
Because of the likely, long nature of the investigation, and the gravity of the issues it would have been addressing, it's a no-brainer that the GOP would prefer to compromise..To which they really didn't agree - rather merely pledge to finish a job that they half-finished in July 2004.
A fun quote from yesterday:
Bill Frist: "They[Democrats] are without convictions"
Terrific quote for a guy under invstigation by the SEC and the Justice Dept.
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