JUST A FEW THINGS....

Just a couple of small things with no long-winded garbage from me.

“It’s about time!!”, yelled Jonah’s couch. (Inside joke)

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The Washington Post hails the breakaway Republicans in the Virginia House for voting to allow a tax bill to go to conference. The Post says,

“After a megadose of special-session histrionics in the Virginia House, enough delegates came to their senses yesterday to end the chamber's obstinate opposition to higher taxes -- allowing negotiations with the state Senate to proceed.”

I wonder if the Post would say the same thing if it said this:

“After a megadose of special-session histrionics in the Senate, enough delegates came to their senses yesterday to end the chamber's obstinate opposition to voting on President Bush’s Judicial nominees -- allowing a vote in the Senate to proceed.”

Oh, that’s different, I’m sure.

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It’s too bad the President spoke last night because it took the heat off the September 11 Commission, a commission that has been reduced to partisan attacks (as witnessed by the grilling of Condi Rice by Bob Kerrey - must be the sound of the name) and little investigation.

Attorney General Ashcroft appeared before the commission and dropped a bombshell about one of the commission’s members, Jamie Gorelick. As Asst. Attorney general under Clintoon, she was the one who created the wall between the CIA and the FBI, the same wall people have been blasting Bush about. Here’s part of what he had to say:

“My second point today goes to the heart of this Commission's duty to uncover the facts: The single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents. Government erected this wall. Government buttressed this wall. And before September 11, government was blinded by this wall…

This memorandum established a wall separating the criminal and intelligence investigations following the 1993 World Trade Center attack, the largest international terrorism attack on American soil prior to September 11. Although you understand the debilitating impact of the wall, I cannot imagine that the Commission knew about this memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review. Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this Commission.”

SLAM!!