FROM IMPARTIAL STATESMEN TO BUSYBODIES:

Democrats backpedal on 9/11 commission (Brian DeBose, January 6, 2007, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

House Democrats campaigned on a promise to implement the recommendations of the September 11 commission, but now say they will not enact all of them.

The recommendation to place all intelligence agencies under the Defense Department "is not on the table," said Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat.

Another obstacle to enacting all the commission reforms as promised is the formula by which federal anti-terrorism money is distributed across the country. [...]

But such a plan almost certainly will be killed in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Lawmakers there almost always find it difficult to part with money for their police and fire departments or the Coast Guard, regardless of terrorism-risk assessments. [...]

Another recommendation unlikely to be fully implemented is tasking one House committee with the responsibility of overseeing both intelligence operations and funding.

If you have power you stop listening to the gray men who wish they did.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 6, 2007 8:59 AM