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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (5361)	3/5/2004 7:12:42 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Meet the boys! hereinreality.com They could probably make Bush do anything. If not another war front, at least the threat of one. Anything if it'll mean another feeding term!

To: jttmab who wrote (5361)	3/5/2004 7:36:47 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Congress? Congress??? The joke used to be that the Constitution is absolutely no impediment to our present form of government. Since George Bush has formed his own commission of his own friends to investigate his own intelligence groups failings, without benefit of subpoena power or timeliness, I think it is safe to change the joke. Congress is absolutely no impediment to our present form of government. Here's someone who agrees, and who ought to know: counterpunch.org Sen. Robert Byrd tells it like it is: On February 6, the President announced the creation of his own commission to investigate our intelligence agencies to find out, in the words of Dr. David Kay, why we were almost all wrong about the administration's prewar claims of huge Iraqi stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. If Congress is serious about getting to the bottom of this apparent intelligence failure and the administration's rush to war, we must realize that once stripped of its dazzling plumage, the White House proposal for its own so-called independent commission is a real, honest to goodness turkey. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. The President has described the panel that he created as being an independent commission. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. This commission is 100 percent under the thumb of the White House. Who created the panel's charter? The President. Who chooses the panel members? The President. To whom does the panel report? The President. Whom shall the panel advise and assist? The President. Who is in charge of determining what classified reports the panel may see? The President. Who gets to decide whether the Congress may see the panel's report? The President. To describe this commission as independent is to turn that word's definition on its head.