Saturday, March 04, 2006
Frist Demonstrates More Republican Arrogance
Republicans know that if they don't like the rules, they can just change them.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist is trying as hard as he can to block a Senate investigation into Bush's warrantless spying on Americans.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has a 30-year old structure that preserves a balance of power and prevents the majority from politicizing the Committee's intelligence oversight function.
As Glenn Greenwald points out on Unclaimed Territory, Frist is threatening that if the Committee moves ahead with hearings, he will restructure it to make the Intelligence Committee like other Senate Committees, that is, with a larger, and presumably more cooperative, Republican majority that will do his and bush's bidding.
Republican arrogance knows no bounds.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist is trying as hard as he can to block a Senate investigation into Bush's warrantless spying on Americans.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has a 30-year old structure that preserves a balance of power and prevents the majority from politicizing the Committee's intelligence oversight function.
As Glenn Greenwald points out on Unclaimed Territory, Frist is threatening that if the Committee moves ahead with hearings, he will restructure it to make the Intelligence Committee like other Senate Committees, that is, with a larger, and presumably more cooperative, Republican majority that will do his and bush's bidding.
Republican arrogance knows no bounds.
