Cheap Trick

"Dirty Harry" Reid and toady Dick Durbin pulled a typically Democrat dirty trick, forcing the Senate into closed session.

It was a grandstanding, headline grabbing, political ploy of the lowest caliber.

"The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership," said Majority Leader Bill Frist. "They have no convictions, they have no principles, they have no ideas". Never, he said, have "I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution."

"Hijacked" is apt: "The precautions were hardly necessary, because the senators -- rather than discussing sensitive information, as Rule 21 envisioned -- spent the next two hours bickering".

It was a brazen attempt to change the subject from the Bush "points scoring" nomination of
Samuel Alito to SCOTUS, and back to Scooter
Libby's indictment and how that figures into the pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

Nevermind Pat Fitzgerald's pronouncement that "This indictment is not about the war. This indictment's not about the propriety of the war."

That's not what the Dems want to hear. After Fitzmas flopped, Karl Rove wasn't indicted, and the Miers mess was resolved, the left suffered a cruel month.

How do they react? Send lying liar Joe Wilson to saturate the airwaves, and let Harry Reid throw a hissy fit: "That the Dems see throwing a temper tantrum as a way to regain momentum, rather than as reminder to the public that they are unfit to govern, speaks volumes."

--LynZee
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