The Rockefeller memo

Lynching is Bad

Except Sometimes

For those of you who blanch at rhetoric which calls congressional Democrats filthy MF'ing scurrilous traitors, whose only motivation is self interest, I will from time to time attempt to refresh your memories.  Let's begin today with this "smoking gun." from 2003.  Am I wrong to suggest that Rockefeller and his target audience should have been ripped from office at that very instant?  By any means? “ 'Flagrantly Dishonest' Even the Senate Intelligence Committee isn't safe from Democratic partisanship. Friday, November 7, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST One of the last redoubts of peaceful coexistence in Congress has been the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sensitive matters of national security come before it, and the tradition is for Senators to leave their party affiliations at the door. So much for that honorable tradition. Senator Jay Rockefeller buried it this week with his ho-hum response to the leak of a strategy memo on how Democrats can exploit for partisan gain the committee's investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq. Mr. Rockefeller is committee vice chairman, a title accorded the senior Senator from the minority party rather than the usual, more political-sounding "ranking member." But the West Virginia Democrat has either been asleep on the job or he's running a camp for juvenile political delinquents. The Democratic memo is a hit job, spelling out how to create the maximum embarrassment to President Bush during his re-election campaign. The committee's investigation is not yet concluded, but the Democrats already know what they think. The Administration had "misleading--if not flagrantly dishonest methods and motives," the memo says. "The approach outline[d] above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods," it concludes. Among the memo's recommendations is how to play Republican Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas for a fool. "Pull the majority along as far as we can," the memo urges, by seeing that Mr. Roberts "co-signs our requests for information." And then? After "we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority," the memo recommends that then "we can pull the trigger on an independent investigation." And guess when? "Probably next year." [continue] ”