I’ve been fairly lean on political posts over the last few weeks, and I will be the first to admit that I’ve been laying off the political news reading a bit, too. But I have two things to say about the apparent demise (this year, at least) of the Intelligence Reform Bill:
- When your enemies aren’t strong enough to be your enemies, you can find plenty of enemies among your friends.
From what little I have read, the GOP basically imploded on this one — House against Senate, Congress against White House, Defense Department against Oval Office, chairperson against chairperson, ego against ego, pork against pork …
It stands as mute testimony against the fears that “Now that the Rethuglicans own the US government, they’ll march in lock-step to Bush’s evil schemes on behalf of his corporate masters!” These guys couldn’t even pull off a slam-dunk like Intelligence Reform in this post-9/11-Commission, post-Election era.
- For shame, you idiots.
Ahhh…
You are thinking that they actually wanted it to pass.
As Hanlon’s Razor puts it, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
And the Pentagon doesn’t like it. War, soldiers dying executing a frelled up plan they were overridden on — the Pentagon has some extra clout.