Congress doesnt have the time to focus on security??????

[southernleftylady]

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON - Warning "we are not safe" yet, the Sept. 11 commission called for a major overhaul of the nation's intelligence agencies to stop the next terror attack. Panelists vowed to make their unanimously backed reforms an election-year issue.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., expressed doubt that lawmakers would have time to consider a sweeping intelligence overhaul this year. But efforts began in both the House and Senate to build bipartisan coalitions of support for the commission's proposals. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims said they too would lobby.
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"Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable," the panel's Republican chairman, Thomas Kean, said. "We do not have the luxury of time."



Ok ... hmm... they dont have enough time.... dont they set up their agendas? I keep hearing that the commission is saying that something WILL happen soon and going to be WAY worse than 9/11..
dont you think that they would make this a priority? I also heard that the commission said that they couldnt blame one group before but now that they gave their report and nothing is done.. congress, the prez. or who ever will be to blame for ignoring their info....


Commission member James Thompson said the proposed reforms were urgent and said Congress and the president have a duty to act quickly.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. So the 9-11 Commission, HS and DOJ

are all saying another attack is imminent, so what does Congress do? Take a vacation! These a-holes sure have their priorities straight, don't they. Besides it's not like they haven't had 3 years since the last attack to do anything.

[TrustingDog]

8. if BushHole didn't stall the investigation to begin with....

congress would be a bit further ahead by now.
but yeah, fucking assholes.
punch in some overtime like all the rest of the working slob world has to do.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Getting........

Whistleass and themselves re-elected is the top priority right now. The safety of the American public, the people that pay their salaries, isn't that high on the priority list. Unfortunately this applies to Democrats as well as RepubliCONS. When will these assholes learn?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. "After making his comments..."

"Sen. Lieberman pulled on a pair of kneepads and entered Sen. Frist's office"

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[nickinSTL]

5. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., expressed doubt that lawmakers would

have time to consider a sweeping intelligence overhaul this year.

Yeah, they're too busy trying to 'protect marriage'

[spanone]

6. Remind One and All that this is a REPUBLICAN-led Congress

They WILL have blood on their hands.

[southernleftylady]

7. kick

[PsN2Wind]

9. News show this AM

put it pretty bluntly quoting, I believe Hastert, "the members have to go home and campaign" or words to that effect. It's like that priorities thing they are hitting Kerry with.