While we're on the subject of Democrats and failure, let's ask the question: Just what happened to the highly touted, all-important legislation enacting the 9/11 Commission recommendations?GovExec.com has the lowdown:
Democratic leaders appear to be trying to avoid a public relations mess that could result by sending both the 9/11 Commission bill and the war supplemental spending bill at the same time to President Bush, who has vowed to veto both for different reasons.As usual, Democrats are playing political football with America's national security. It may be all fun and games for the Democrats, but one of these days somebody is going to get hurt.
"There hasn't been any movement on conference and we don't know that there will be in the foreseeable future," a Senate aide said late last week about the 9/11 Commission bill.
A spokeswoman for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the committee is waiting for direction from Senate leaders about proceeding to conference.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the next move is up to House leaders.
But when asked, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said: "No timeline just yet. We are different bodies with different rules. Preliminary discussions [are] already occurring with Senate."
