Sheesh, what next?<\/p>\n
Charles Babington, The Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n “In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the dispute over Karl Rove’s hand in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.”<\/p>\n Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proposed an amendment aimed at Rove “to deny access to classified information to any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent’s identity.”<\/p>\n Then Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) retaliated by offering an amendment designed to strip the security clearances of the chamber’s top two Democrats, Reid and Democratic Whip Richard J. Durbin (Ill.).<\/p>\n Reid’s amendment fell by a party-line vote. Twenty Republicans joined all present Democrats in voting against Frist’s.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, and “several Republicans did not vote nay until it was clear the measure would fail.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, they were supposed to working on funding issues for homeland security. <\/p>\n The outing of Plame not only punished Wilson for telling the truth, but put others in danger and messed up a fairly important project vital to our national security. Oh, anyone else curious about the Plame, Aramco<\/a>, dirty bomb<\/a>, Brewster Jennings<\/a>, Bush\/terrorism money trail<\/a> constellation – or is it just me… <\/p>\n How do these people have the time to become so completely corrupt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sheesh, what next? Charles Babington, The Washington Post: “In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the dispute over Karl Rove’s hand in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.” Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proposed an amendment aimed at Rove “to deny access to classified information to any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent’s identity.” Then Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) retaliated by offering an amendment designed to strip the security clearances of the chamber’s top two…<\/p>\n