From the Times: “Democrats invoked a rarely used rule [yesterday] that sent the Senate into a two-hour closed session, infuriating Republicans but producing an agreement for a bipartisan look at whether the Republican leadership was dragging its feet on a promised inquiry into the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence on Iraq.” The GOP was not amused.
I’m happy that the Democrats are refusing to play the White House’s spin game and move on from Plamegate to Alito, and I think that Reid deserves a good deal of praise. It’s an attention-grabber, to be sure, which may be partly why the Democrats did it, but of course it does bring Iraq and the WMD debacle back to the fore after Bush and the Republicans tried to turn the page with the Alito nomination and some presidential speeches and photo-ops (and fear-mongering: avian flu, anyone?).
To a certain extent, this is much ado about not much at all — at least in terms of how the Democrats changed the subject (which is what many in the MSM are talking about). But it’s big news in terms of the subject itself, which needs far more attention than it has thus far received.
I have more on this story, including some reaction from around the blogosphere, over at The Reaction.