Roberts: Real test for Dems will be for them to show up on Tuesday

[Rose Siding]

...The panel's chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), issued a statement saying that he is "ready to roll up his sleeves and get going" and that "the real test for the minority will be for them to show up on Tuesday, ready to do the important national security work that has been asked of them."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401892.html

Uh, setting the bar kind of low, aren't you Pokey?

What he means, of course, is will they be ready to be steamrolled. I don't think so.

The trio of Dems on the panel sound like they know just what needs to be done. Levin, especially zeroes in on proving the lies:

"This is serious professional work that needs to be done promptly," said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), vice chairman of the committee. "And it cannot become a matter of short order -- you know, hamburger."

Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.) said he and other Democrats are insisting on assessing whether administration statements "were substantiated by intelligence information," and that it takes time "to see whether or not a particular statement is substantiated."

Among other things, Democrats said they do not believe they have all the intelligence the White House had when it made its statements. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) noted that "a number of the documents and interviews we need to do the work have been refused by the administration."

[EFerrari]

1. Dianne is covering her remote. She's known all along.

I hope the other two stand tall.

sigh

[Im with Rosey]

3. Maybe it is time to

send some encouraging emails, remind them of the poll numbers.

[EFerrari]

10. Yep. Or, remind her that we tried to tell her and

that she's up for re-election.

Can you tell I'm furious with her?

The grown up thing to do is to encourage her and I will. But, I get to have my sadistic fantasy. lol

[Im with Rosey]

13. I truly wish we could find

someone like Barbara Boxer to run against DiFi. I will grudgingly support her, but I wish she would remember that she is a democrat. I have been furious with her also and continue to send emails to her on a regular basis.

[EFerrari]

14. I asked Matt Gonzalez to run. Better to have a Green who

votes with the Dems than a Dem that votes with the Replicants. But, he said it would be too hard and he's probably right.

Dianne must appeal to the red parts of California but she enables the redding of the state -- and the Thugs are trying to turn it.

If they succeed, she will have even more to answer for. :nuke:

[rodeodance]

4. what do you mean?---Dianne is covering her remote?

[EFerrari]

9. ahem, Dianne is covering her behind.

In CA, we showered her with information before the vote. There is no way she doesn't know. But, whatever. Maybe she will come through now.

[rodeodance]

11. thanks- for the remote clarification. Well--maybe she will have some

spine. maybe.

[EFerrari]

12. Actually, she is a war profiteer. But, maybe she will move to

protect her seat.

[Neil Lisst]

2. Roberts SAT on the investigation the past 18 months ...

... and now, suddenly, he's the guy who's large and in charge.

This clown has been hiding anything negative about the president and the leadership the past two years. He's a traitor to America.

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connected at the roots?
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst

[rodeodance]

5. Roberts has made a few smart- assed remarks lately that will NOT

help. He is pissed he got caught sleeping.

Now--to catch him covering up for Cheney!

[rodeodance]

7. Rozen claims that Cheney is helping Roberts write the final draft.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10446
The Report They Forgot

From our November issue: The Fitzgerald probe reminds us: Whatever happened to Pat Roberts' Phase II intelligence report?

By Laura Rozen
Web Exclusive: 10.19.05


......Among the documents in the committee’s possession, the Prospect has learned, is a cable the CIA station chief in Rome sent to Langley expressing concern that members of Feith’s office were involved in an unauthorized covert action. The committee also has Franklin’s Rome report, which, according to sources, revealed that the meeting included the discussion of possibilities for engaging a network of Ghorbanifar associates to pursue action against Tehran. (Franklin pled guilty in October to charges stemming from a separate FBI investigation. Feith left the Pentagon for the private sector over the summer.)

“ made an offhand comment at a press conference, which was totally accurate,” a source close to the investigation told the Prospect. “Some of these guys may have crossed the lines into illegalities. Can you imagine if during Iran-Contra the executive branch had said, ‘We’re not going to provide you any more information because one of your members suggested that one of our members may have acted illegally’? In those days, neither Republicans nor Democrats would have stood for that for one minute.”

But that was then. Today, committee Republicans view their mission as being not oversight but cover-up. Indeed, one source told the Prospect that Roberts has worked closely behind the scenes with Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in crafting the language defining and limiting the investigation’s terms -- even though the committee is supposed to be investigating and providing oversight of the administration’s use of Iraq intelligence. Yet the committee’s leading Democrat, Rockefeller, hobbled by criticism from within the committee -- and according to one account, “a wimp … not confident of his own judgments” -- has felt constrained from pushing the majority more aggressively to comply with its promise.

Accountability may yet arrive. With press-time reports that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was homing in on a group of top White House aides for playing a role in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to the media (in an effort to retaliate against her husband for exposing the White House's hyping of dubious Iraq intelligence) perhaps the courts will take up where Congress has failed.

[Rose Siding]

16. That's just great

"You can look here, but don't look over there"

Duh....ok boss :crazy:

[ComerPerro]

6. And he's not even the worst KS Senator

We also have Sam Brownback, who is just a complete freak

[rodeodance]

8. Cheney and Roberts are in cohots with each other-connected at the roots

is a good analogy.

[annabanana]

15. we should all remind Roberts

that "the public" remembers why the investigation stalled in the first place...

[Jose Diablo]

17. I would suggest a slightly more direct appeal to Roberts

Take it right-up into his face, in his 'hometown'.

Yes, protest his actions in stonewalling this investigation right in front of his home office in Kansas. Think of it as 'Cindying'.

Demand he answer why he split the investigation into 2 parts, with the last and important part after the 2004 election. Then did nothing to complete that investigation in 'Phase II'.

Maybe this protest would give those fat-assed editors something to write about in their right-wing rag newspapers throughout Kansas. There are a lot more 'populists' in Kansas than most are aware.

[leesa]

18. Oh cripes! Now we're going to have to listen to "roll up your sleeves"

a million times because it's the talking point of the week. Are these people really robots and they just swap out their circuit boards every week?

[Oilwellian]

19. Perhaps they're taking cues.....

from Brownie's assistant. These clowns think if you roll up your sleeves, it gives the appearance of being a hard worker. The only hard work they do is covering up their crimes.