Seriously folks - why? If members who take these investigations seriously aren't allowed to serve on it ...
Is it that disbanding it is sure to get a day of bad press? I find that hard to believe. I mean yeah, were that to happen Jim Lehrer might ask Norm Ornstein a serious question or two, and end his questioning with a cynical, depressed statement, and Aaron Brown might get all huffy for a few minutes. But c'mon - that's not exactly serious accountability that the powers that be need to worry about. The press has shown that unless hookers, dead bodies or under-age boys are involved, they aren't especially interested in congressional ethics controversies. So why doesn't DeLay just go ahead and disband the thing if it's going to be a toothless tiger?
And speaking of DeLay's iron-fisted rule of the people's house ...
I can't recall anything in many, many years remotely similar to DeLay not only stripping Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) of his committee chairmanship, but booting him off the Veteran's Affairs committee entirely. If that's not unprecedented, and it might be, it's something that hasn't happened in ages.
Posted by armand at February 3, 2005 09:02 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politicsits out of control, isn't it?
Democracy doesn't have the right kind of people it needs to live & breathe. '1984' enforced by greed on their part and laziness on ours.
Is the right word fascism? Nationalism bonded with capitalistic powers?
No more sobriety of heart and mind. No shepards. Not enough human spirit bonded to a comon sense integrity that can see calmly clearly into this soup made of lies slander and exageration, to generate fear for the lazy 'us'. to control us through fear by the powerful 'greedy'.
Man o man, we've grown so low as a people. Do we not have the government we deserve?