Bad Deeds for 1-5-07

What a difference two years (and an election) makes!
Some Republicans are complaining about the way the new Congress has started. Ask them if they remember this news story from two years ago:

(01-05-2005) 04:00 PST Washington — The 109th Congress opened with a partisan fight Tuesday, as Republicans pushed through a rule change that will make it much more difficult for the House to investigate potential ethical violations of its members. Republicans said the change was essential to provide due process rights to all members, but minority Democrats angrily said it was a transparent attempt to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas from more ethics investigations.

Conservative bloggers blow hot air in strange chain of events – In late November, 2006, an Iraqi police captain tells the Associated Press about the burning and shooting of six people during a sectarian attack at a Sunni mosque.

In recent weeks, conservative bloggers, some Iraqi officials and the U.S. military hotly dispute the existence of the Iraqi police captain. Conservative bloggers charge that the police captain was fabricated in order to spread false stories.

Conservative blogger claims that the Associated Press is in a major scandal for making up the story.
As recently as January 4, 2007, Michelle Malkin, the best-known blog critic of the police captain’s existence, stated flatly “the fact that there is no police captain named ‘Jamil Hussein’ working now or ever in either Yarmouk or al Khadra, according to on-the-ground sources in Baghdad.

On January 4, 2007, the Iraqi Interior Ministry acknowledges that the Iraqi police officer does exist and is an active member of the force.

The Iraqi police officer now faces arrest for speaking to the media.

Bush’s line used to be, “I’ll listen to my military leaders on the ground.” Bush’s new line is, “When my military leaders on the ground tell me what I don’t want to hear, I’ll get new military leaders.” – Bush is replacing Gen. John P. Abizaid as the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East.

FOX News Banner On Nancy Pelosi says, “100 Hours To Turn America Into San Francisco” – Sean Hannity was full of predictably peevish partisanship last night (1/4/07) on Hannity & Colmes as he made the ludicrous claim that the Democratic agenda of raising the minimum wage and combating global warming “because they have spent way too much time watching Al Gore’s new DVD” was out of step with America. But a FOX News banner across the bottom of the screen as Pelosi took the gavel was even more biased, stating, “100 Hours To Turn America Into San Francisco”.