WTF Is It Now?!?

Patriotism or party? The GOP has to choose
From an editorial in the Capital Times:

"This isn't Watergate," said U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, as he and other Republican senators blocked a move to create an independent commission with a broad mandate to review the Bush administration's use - and misuse - of intelligence information in the months before the president gave the order to attack Iraq.

[I]n fairness to Stevens, he is right ... If Bush and his aides used information they knew to have been discredited in an attempt to win support for a war that has killed Americans and Iraqis, that has cost tens of billions of dollars and that may have locked the United States into a long-term position as the colonial overseer of a distant and troubled land, then this administration's wrongdoing is of far more consequence than Richard Nixon's misdeeds. {snip}

There is a powerful lesson here for Stevens and other Republican senators who last week blocked a legitimate and necessary investigation: The American people do not take kindly to presidents who engage in cover-ups, nor to members of Congress who aid and abet them.