March 13, 2005

Congress Lets Bush Write History of His Failures (Again)

In the comments thread relating to Publius's post "A Linguistic Case Against Scalia" Baltar and I have agreed that one of the reasons (though surely not the only reason) that we have an "activist" Supreme Court is that Congress does a lousy job of performing certain key functions. Via Spencer Ackerman we see Congress failing, yet again, to even be a weak check against hideously destructive excesses committed by the other branches of the government. In this case Congress is choosing not to carry out one of its core responsibilities, oversight of the executive branch, on issues tied to one of the biggest blunders made by any administration in decades. It appears that Congress will leave the investigation of executive branch shenanigans that led to the cooking of intelligence - and hence to our invasion of Iraq - to a commission appointed by the president. And as if that wasn't a pathetic enough turn, surprise, surprise, it appears that the commission will have realtively little to say on the matter at all.

Posted by armand at March 13, 2005 02:10 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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