Senate kills bid for Katrina commission

What a pain in the fucking ass it must be to be a Republican these days. On one hand, you have to pretend that you hate big government, and you wish the government had much less power. But on the other hand, you have to support all the attempts by this Republican government to give themselves more power. And now when the government has clearly failed us, the Republicans who will all tell you that they don't trust the government in the first place, want to let the government investigate itself, instead of setting up and independent investigation. And hell, they're not even happy with the government itself handling the investigation unless there are more Republicans than Democrats.

Also, it has to be pretty difficult to not be able to express your opinion on anything until after you've listened to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity to find out what your opinion is supposed to be.

If you're afraid that an independent investigation will uncover all the incompetence by the people you voted for, maybe you should be more concerned that the people you voted for are all fucking incompetent. Anyway, it's pretty clear that we need an independent investigation into this, and hopefully public pressue will cause that to happen.