Residual Forces

The Democrats in Washington, just sinking their teeth back into what it is like to be in power, are sending a pretty clear message to Americans. They lied their arses off and said what ever they had to, to win the elections.

It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

You remember that line, I’m sure you heard it, where ever you live. The Democrat candidates all memorized that one, for whenever national security issues were starting to turn against them. (read Iraq) They always threw that line out there, and even usually followed that up with something about Katrina. Well, seems now that the Dems are taking charge in DC, and getting their mitts on all the data, and controlling just what does happen, the fact that they were making false promises is becoming quite clear.

But with control of Congress now secured, Democratic leaders have decided for now against implementing the one measure that would affect them most directly: a wholesale reorganization of Congress to improve oversight and funding of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Instead, Democratic leaders may create a panel to look at the issue and produce recommendations, according to congressional aides and lawmakers.

So, the same people who blamed Bush for not taking the 9-11 commission’s recommendations and making them a reality, is going to out flank Bush on the matter, and create commissions to investigate the commission. Leave it to the Democrats.

It may seem like a minor matter, but members of the commission say Congress’s failure to change itself is anything but inconsequential. In 2004, the commission urged Congress to grant the House and Senate intelligence committees the power not only to oversee the nation’s intelligence agencies but also to fund them and shape intelligence policy. The intelligence committees’ gains would come at the expense of the armed services committees and the appropriations panels’ defense subcommittees. Powerful lawmakers on those panels would have to give up prized legislative turf.

And now that those are Democratically controlled turfs, there ain’t no way in hell that they are going to lose those powers. Yep, the lying Democrats are breaking their campaign promises long before the keys to Congress are officially handed over.

It will be interesting to watch the backlash, if any, against certain freshman Democrats who owe their victories, to the carefully orchestrated campaign by national Democratic leaders. Well, what do you know, we have one or two of them right here in Minnesota. A-Klo (Amy Klobuchar) won the Senate seat by following the nay sayer game plan of Pelosi and Schumer. Maybe she didn’t really mean that she would fight to implement, all the 9-11 Commission recommendations.

Amy Klobuchar will fight to enact the 9/11 Commission recommendations, with particular emphasis on the following:  intelligence collection and sharing of information among agencies; passenger and cargo transportation security; border security; and agricultural, chemical and nuclear plant security. (Source: AmyKlobuchar.com)

Whoops. I guess she did mean that she would fight to implement all the recommendations. Well A-Klo, it is time to stand up to your party’s leadership and do what you said was so critical to national security. Will she buck her party’s leadership? Or will she carefully fall in line like a good Democrat and do as she is told and not question the leadership of her party? Will she become a lapdog for Pelosi and Reid? Is she the next rubberstamp for the liberal Democrats in Washington?

(Sorry, but after 6 years of that crap, you lefties didn’t really think it wasn’t going to be used against you when you did win control of Congress again, did you?)