This might play well with some... I think it's mainly a "belt-way" squabble and pent up hatred for Bush by the "sorry winners" that control the White House, and Congress.
It might get some good air time until another terrorist attack... then we're going to look back and ask,
I can almost hear the chorus of "By by!" sounding in the capital of Washington as I type... and it is a sweet sound... except for the needless screams and sorrow from terrorists killing Americans on American soil again that I can also almost hear...
XtnYoda, shalomed
yahoo news
DEMS PUSH FOR TORTURE HEARINGS IGNORING OBAMA
AP
WASHINGTON – Brushing aside the president's suggestions, congressional Democrats pushed ahead firmly on Wednesday toward investigations into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects including hundreds of instances of waterboarding and other abusive practices.
President Barack Obama said a day earlier that if there was to be an investigation, the independent commission that looked into the Sept. 11 attacks would be a better model than a congressional probe that might break down along party lines. But Democrats were moving in their own directions, and Republicans were united in their opposition to a commission that they see as an effort to vilify George W. Bush now that he is out of office.
Democrats moved toward separate hearings in the House and Senate and seemed to be jostling each other for leadership roles on the issue, all but ignoring Obama's effort to head off an uncontrolled, partisan sprint toward a rash of probes that could impair the foreign policy he now steers....
It might get some good air time until another terrorist attack... then we're going to look back and ask,
"Now what were you doing with your time? Oh... you spent it all trying to dig up dirt on the Bush administration for winning the war in Iraq? Yea, that's a pretty severe charge... to go out and win a war somewhere!
Soooo... while you were trying to find out if it is legal to win a war with the enemy sworn to destroy you, they came here and killed _______ numbers of us?"
I can almost hear the chorus of "By by!" sounding in the capital of Washington as I type... and it is a sweet sound... except for the needless screams and sorrow from terrorists killing Americans on American soil again that I can also almost hear...
XtnYoda, shalomed
yahoo news
DEMS PUSH FOR TORTURE HEARINGS IGNORING OBAMA
AP
WASHINGTON – Brushing aside the president's suggestions, congressional Democrats pushed ahead firmly on Wednesday toward investigations into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects including hundreds of instances of waterboarding and other abusive practices.
President Barack Obama said a day earlier that if there was to be an investigation, the independent commission that looked into the Sept. 11 attacks would be a better model than a congressional probe that might break down along party lines. But Democrats were moving in their own directions, and Republicans were united in their opposition to a commission that they see as an effort to vilify George W. Bush now that he is out of office.
Democrats moved toward separate hearings in the House and Senate and seemed to be jostling each other for leadership roles on the issue, all but ignoring Obama's effort to head off an uncontrolled, partisan sprint toward a rash of probes that could impair the foreign policy he now steers....
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