Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Bottom feeding Dems want "independent" inquiry into a storm

NY Times:

As Congress prepares to take its first tentative steps toward evaluating the government response to Hurricane Katrina, Democrats and others are pressing for an independent inquiry, saying lawmakers cannot be trusted to assess their own complicity in the failures.

"I don't think the Congress can investigate ourselves," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said Monday.

Mrs. Clinton, a chief proponent of forming an outside commission similar to the one that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, is seeking a vote Wednesday on creating such a panel.

Members of the Sept. 11 commission will echo that call on Wednesday when they release a new privately financed study that will cite failures in the federal response to the storm to argue that the government remains unprepared to deal with a catastrophic terrorist strike on American soil.

Commission members said in recent interviews that the report would criticize the Bush administration and Congress as not following up on many of the commission's recommendations for improving federal disaster-response programs. That lack of action, commissioners said, cost lives in areas of the Gulf Coast struck by the hurricane.

These guys act like they are looking for a new gig. They did a lousy job in the first place, overlooking programs like able danger, while playing to antiwar liberal kooks like Richard Clarke. Another outfit like theirs would be a waste of time and money and be a cover for Democrats to coverup the ineptitude of state and local officals in Louyisiana while blaming Bush for everything which is their MO. I have zero confidence in any commission tht Democrats want.