Outside the Spectrum

   There was a round of bad reporting on MSNBC last week that left me disgusted. I tire of GOP shills like Russert and Matthews saying or implying that only those “vindictive” democrats want an investigation of the president’s activities. Read the writing on the wall, you nasty little salon lap dogs for GE.

   I must say I was uninspired by Nancy Pelosi’s recent interview on Meet the Press. Russert hounded her over whether democrats would launch investigations if and when they gain control of congress but Pelosi equivocated, essentially saying democrats would investigate…the Medicare prescription drug program. Come on, Pelosi, check the poll numbers, for God’s sake. The country hates this president. They want investigations. They want oversight. It doesn’t even take political courage at this point to say, flat-out, “we will investigate every suspicious action of the president because it is our constitutional obligation to do so as a co-equal branch of government.” We’re talking about investigations here, not ravening lynch mobs. We’re talking about oversight. If memory serves it was republicans that turned investigations into an irritating, harassing tool of vindictiveness, not democrats.

   CNN has a summary of the State Department’s terror report. The good news: “al-Qaeda’s senior leadership is mostly scattered and on the run.” The bad news: a proliferation of smaller terrorist groups. Also, terrorists are “working” to create a safe haven in Iraq and al-Qaeda is still planning a big attack on the United States.

   “Mission Accomplished” indeed. If the State Department didn’t answer to the man who has bungled foreign policy so badly I suspect they would be even more critical of the world-wide terror situation, but as we know even the USDA has to toe the party line in the Bush Administration. Even the EPA has its reports edited to eliminate content the administration finds objectionable.

   David Corn has a great blog entry sarcastically pointing out that with the murder rate in Iraq at 1,000 people per month the administration is busy pointing out the new water projects they’re completing. Unfortunately, the blog entry immediately beneath that advocates the Nancy Pelosi strategy for winning elections.