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:<\/p>\n
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 … <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/not-at-all-surprisingly-trump-releases-information-to-attack-his-enemies.html","url_meta":{"origin":6943,"position":0},"title":"Not at all surprisingly, Trump releases information to attack his enemies","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Sep-18 11:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, go ahead and take it as a given that Adam Schiff is a partisan hack. 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