Tuesday, November 23, 2004
GOP House Didn't Want Intel Reform To Make Democrats Look Good...
Fuck improving our nation's intelligence capabilities...Fuck the 9/11 Commission's findings...Fuck preventing terrorism in a more streamlined manner...
If GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert can't get the majority of GOP votes (apparently the only ones that matter now), the bill doesn't need to be passed...
"I am convinced that had the speaker brought the bill to the floor, it would have passed," Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and chief author of the measure, said in an interview on Sunday. "That's what's so frustrating. Here we have a bill that's been endorsed by the White House, by the 9/11 commission, by the 9/11 family groups, by the speaker of the House, and we can't get a vote."
But Mr. Hastert did not want to split his caucus and did not want the bill to pass with less than ''a majority of the majority," said his spokesman, John Feehery. "What good is it to pass something," Mr. Feehery said, "where most of our members don't like it?"
To review: The Democrats were on board, but Hastert didn't want them to be the reason that this legislation got passed...
The GOP House: If It Doesn't Make Us Look Good, FUCK IT!!!
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