CalCON revs up the spin machine today, saying the Dems have already broken a campaign promise and at breakneck speed. Well, you say, how is this spin, SB? Sit down Indian style (as my kindergarten teacher used to say) and I'll tell you all about it.
First, this particular 9/11 Commission recommendation has been controversial from the start. Reorganizing Congress in this fashion requires that a bunch of committee chairs give up a whole lot of power, and the one thing that Congress cares about is power.
"We think this is extremely crucial," Kean said of a reorganization shifting budget authority to the intelligence committees. But, he added, there are "a lot of old bulls in both parties who just don't want to do it."
Second, this was not exactly on the top of the republiCONs to-do list, and as Mitch McConnell says, "There will be nothing here they can do without some degree of cooperation from a very robust 49-vote minority."
So what's a Speaker to do? Bring it up in the first hundred hours and deal with the republiCONs -- not to mention her own party members -- shooting it down, making her look like a weak leader right out of the box? I think we all remember how everybody spun the Murtha/Hoyer slapdown, and this would be redux times ten.
Looks like good politicking to me. Maybe Pelosi knows what she's doing afterall.
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