There Must Be an Independent Investigation

From the Huffington Post, via the Smirking Chimp:

Bob Cesca: 'George W. Bush investigates II: Beyond Superdome'

We're supposed to believe that Bush has accepted responsibility for the unnatural aspects of the disaster (on the federal side... where there were mistakes made... and there might not have been... sorta kinda... not really) but when it comes to being held accountable, can this group be trusted to run the investigatory show? To put it in terms all senators will understand: the steroid dealers are intending to investigate the Major League juicers.....

But let's wait and see what the White House and the Republicans come up with by way of a commission. My money is on the investigation taking place on Trent Lott's rebuilt front porch. The commissioners will be Lott, Cheney, and Sean Hannity, and the research materials will be nothing more than the tokens from an old Clue board game.

And if there's anything at all damning uncovered in this Republican-controlled "independent" commission, we won't see it until after the midterms -- kind of the same way the 9/11 Commission finally released its full report... yesterday.

One of the hallmarks of the Rove Regime is to postpone or delay all investigations into its reign of lies until sufficient time has elapsed to dull the nation's horror.

Remember Condoleeza's sing-songy rendition of the title of the August 6, 2001 briefing Bush received telling him Bin Laden was coming? "Bin Laden determined to strike inside US", she trilled. Imagine if we had learned of that document's existence in October of 2001, when Americans still cried every day thinking about September 11th.

Will we allow the Republicans to postpone the day of reckoning once again, so we can hear Ms. Rice's rendition of the National Weather Service's August 28th warning? La la la la, MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS....WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS, la la la la.

Americablog has provided the telephone numbers of the 54 Republican Senators who voted against the independent investigation. Call 'em and ask why.

ACTION ALERT: Call the US Senate - Ask GOP Senators why they hate America?