Well, #ucking duh
Congress slammed for kid-glove oversight of White House
GOP lawmakers have abandoned duties, say critics
After five years in which the GOP-controlled House and Senate undertook next to no investigations of the misadministration, the legislative branch has finally begun to complain about being in the dark.
Democrats list 14 areas in which the GOP majority has failed to investigate the misadministration, including the role of senior officials in the abuse of detainees; the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame; the role of Dick Cheney's office in the awarding of contracts to Cheney's "former" employer, Halliburton; the White House's withholding from Congress the cost of a Medicare prescription drug plan; the misadministration's rather incestuous relationship with crooked Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi; and the influence of corporate interests on energy policy, environmental regulation and tobacco policy.
Meanwhile, the House "ethics committee" has not opened a new case or launched an investigation in the past 12 months, despite an array of outside investigations involving, among others, Cunningham and Republican pet lobbyist/travel agent Jack Abramoff.
"Republicans have made a mockery of oversight," said Rep. Henry Waxman, the committee's ranking Democrat. "There was nothing too small to be investigated in the Clinton administration and there's nothing so big that it can't be ignored in the Bush administration."
Democrats list 14 areas in which the GOP majority has failed to investigate the misadministration, including the role of senior officials in the abuse of detainees; the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame; the role of Dick Cheney's office in the awarding of contracts to Cheney's "former" employer, Halliburton; the White House's withholding from Congress the cost of a Medicare prescription drug plan; the misadministration's rather incestuous relationship with crooked Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi; and the influence of corporate interests on energy policy, environmental regulation and tobacco policy.
Meanwhile, the House "ethics committee" has not opened a new case or launched an investigation in the past 12 months, despite an array of outside investigations involving, among others, Cunningham and Republican pet lobbyist/travel agent Jack Abramoff.
"Republicans have made a mockery of oversight," said Rep. Henry Waxman, the committee's ranking Democrat. "There was nothing too small to be investigated in the Clinton administration and there's nothing so big that it can't be ignored in the Bush administration."
Oh yeah, and then there's this. And this. And, uhhhhh, this.
- from the WaComPo. Mostly.
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