After viewing the WMD comments Democrats made in my previous post, it makes one wonder why they did this:
A controversial memo by a Democrat on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that surfaced in 2003 appears to contain the playbook party leaders used yesterday when they made the rare move of closing the chamber.
The memo, offering ways Democrats could make the greatest gain from controversies over intelligence data used in the run-up to the Iraq war, says "we can pull the trigger on an independent investigation at any time."
Democrats, the document advised, should, "Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority."
Yesterday, Minority Leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of stalling a bipartisan review of pre-war intelligence before forcing the Republican-controlled Senate into the closed session, igniting anger from GOP leaders.
So why would the Democrats go back the the Daschle Dark Zone? Rush Limbaugh has his thoughts:
RUSH: Let's go back to the invocation of Rule 21 by Dingy Harry, and let's review some of the theories that are out there. Some of the theories that are out there; the Democrats did this to steal the news cycle back from Bush. By the way, all these are interrelated and I think they all have their merit, and there may not be one specific reason. But if there is anything that is at the top of the list here that has tentacles connecting to all the other reasons, it is the fact that they are so dispirited and disjointed and depressed and let down. I cannot emphasize enough, folks, just how much they have been living a lie -- a lie that they have constructed, an alternative reality -- and they believe the lie. They are so immersed in it that that alternative reality is their truth. They cannot deal with it when "the truth," when actual reality hits them upside the face, as did the lack of any action by Patrick Fitzgerald last week with his investigation looking into the reasons we went to war. He made it perfectly plain in his press conference that anything about the war, nothing about the war is in his indictment, absolutely nothing about prewar intelligence, whether the war is good or bad, whether we should have or shouldn't have, whether we're winning or not, none of this -- and they really thought that this was what it was all about, because they've thrown in with a guy who himself cannot tell the truth. As Max Boot says in the LA Times today: "Joe Wilson tells more whoppers than Burger King makes," and they thrown in with his people! They throw in with the likes of Cindy Sheehan; now Joe Wilson, and before that Bill Burkett.
