Allen accuses Collins of protecting Halliburton

I'll add one further point: why would Collins have to be asked to perform her duty to investigate the rampant waste in Iraq? Go back in time and think about the stories that were in the news: truckloads of cash gone missing; empty trucks beign driven around; meals made for non-existent troops; shoddy workmenship; and why is the embassy in Baghdad going to cost one billion dollars?

Someone who claims to be interested in rooting out waste in government shouldn't need a kick in the ass to look into the largest waste hole in history, should they? While our tax dollars were disappearing in Iraq like so many grains of sand, Collins was traveling to Minnesota to see if that state was ready for a SARS outbreak, or whether some members of the DoD were traveling 1st class when they shouldn't have been. While she was looking into real estate owned by the Fed, this company was making Kevlar that didn't meet spec's, Kevlar that was used in military helmets.

A classic "Can't see the forest for the trees." Looks like Bush/Cheney had the right person for the job.

The Democrats have controlled the U.S. Senate for nearly two years now. That means that they currently control the committee structure including the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on which Lautenburg serves.

If this was such and important issue to Lautenburg and if he had any influence at all with his Dem colleagues, the Senate would be engaged in this investigation now.

The fact of the matter is that this issue isn’t all that important to Lautenburg and, because he’s politicized the issue, he has no influence with his own party on the committee.

This all fits nicely together because Tom Allen uses the same approach to governing – politicize everything to just advance your own profile.

Allen has blamed his lack of accomplishments in Congress on his party’s minority status. Well, like Lautenburg, Allen is now serving in the majority.

It should not come as a surprise that both remain ineffective legislatures.

What does that mean? You'll have to forgive me, I don't read the conspiracy comic books that you do Gerald, so I'm a little slow on the uptake.

Let me try this though:
-Collins and Lieberman are conspiring, along with George Bush, Dick Cheney, Armand Hammer, and former staff of the US base at Roswell, New Mexico, to funnel taxpayer funds through US contractors in Iraq, to create a super-polluting mind control device that is fueled by an admix of redwood pulp and spotted-owl plasma.
- Once complete, this device will be used to create robots, which will then be recess-appointed by Bush to the FCC
- The FCC will then hold rigged hearings, granting telecom immunity, striking down net neutrality provisions, and delivering the D wireless spectrum to multi-national corporations for use in bolstering the grip of the military-industrial complex

Is that what you mean, Gerald?

You mean the Joe Lieberman the DINO (Democrat in name only)? Oh that Joe! Yeah, yeah, the Joe who has dual citizenship (here and in Israel) and loves the idea of American soldiers fighting to protect his favorite country! See? It ain't America that's his favorite country by the way...

....ole Joe is a neocon. He needs to have his ass kicked out of the house, down the driveway, up the street, and off a cliff.

Susan too.