Nauseating... Money and power trump good government every time...

expanding a tad on skadi's previous post about agreeing with trent lott of all people, rove's threats of blacklisting seem to be working, aided and abetted by the senate majority weenie, bill frist... not only does the senate intelligence committee hearings on the nsa spying issue appear to be going down the drain, so does any effort at all toward providing good, responsible government... two items for your consideration...

item one...

Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.

item two...

Four cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an Army general and the secretary of the Army were supposed to testify Tuesday morning at hearings on matters including Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's proposed budget for foreign affairs.

But their invitations were rescinded and the hearings canceled when the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, scheduled a marathon series of 16 votes on amendments to a pending tax bill — all of them, both parties agree, intended more to score political points than to make policy.

Ultimately, most of those votes were canceled.

so, what got weenie bill's attention instead...?

[The votes] could have been held Monday night, but that did not work for Mr. Frist. He was holding a fund-raiser at his Washington home, with President Bush as the featured guest and some of his Republican colleagues on the guest list, including the Senate whip, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The event raised $3.5 million for Republican Senate candidates.

$3.5M that, unless the senate r's line up with bushco per rove's directive, WON'T find its way into their reelection campaign funds... a senator's gotta have his priorities, dontcha know...?

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