What A Difference A Fortnight Makes

If I were to shake my head at this crapola any more often, I would need a chiropractor:

The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday scathingly disputed claims by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV that he harbored deep concerns about the Bush Administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program when he was briefed on the matter.

Senator Pat Roberts, Kansas Republican and chairman of the normally apolitical committee, said he was "puzzled" by a letter that Mr. Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat and vice chairman of the committee, said he sent to Vice President Dick Cheney in 2003 after one such briefing.

"In his letter ... Senator Rockefeller asserts that he had lingering concerns about the program designed to protect the American people from another attack, but was prohibited from doing anything about it," Mr. Roberts said in a statement yesterday. "A United States Senator has significant tools with which to wield power and influence over the executive branch. Feigning helplessness is not one of those tools."...

If Mr. Rockefeller had these concerns, Mr. Roberts said, he could have raised them with him or other members of Congress who had been briefed on the program.

"I have no recollection of Senator Rockefeller objecting to the program at the many briefings he and I attended together," Mr. Roberts said. "In fact, it is my recollection that on many occasions Senator Rockefeller expressed to the Vice President his vocal support for the program," most recently, "two weeks ago."

"Now, when it appears to be politically advantageous, Senator Rockefeller has chosen to release his two and a half year old letter," he said. "Forgive me if I find this to be ... a bit disingenuous." [emphasis, and coughing and gagging, added]

Stark fricking steroidally weasel-like is more like it. What a ferret-faced prick. How can Roberts and his majority colleagues co-exist with such sleazebags? Indeed, how can they resist coming to blows with them?

And to think it's Crazy Nancy that brings down the house:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced that she wrote a letter, too, but couldn't provide it because, she said, it was classified.

Like anybody would give a damn what she had to say....