Bush enablers

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=hsnews-000003098436

Jane Harmon has been a great disappointment for the last eight years, but I must admit to surprise when I read this article. Shocked not so much about her cozy relationship with APAIC or her willingness to intervene of behalf of AIPAC, but her dealings with the Bushies was a little horrific. One detail that jumped out at me in the article was the brief mention that she agreed to pressure the NYT not to release the story about warrant less wiretaps before the 2004 election. I don't really think that the wiretap story would have changed the outcome of the election, after all the repugs are pretty expert at voter suppression, just look at Ohio in '04, and most people don't get too exercised about wiretaps because they don't think anything they say would merit scrutiny. But clearly somebody thought that the story might have some sort of impact otherwise they wouldn't have tried to stop the story. Jane Harmon's support of Bush policies gave repugs cover, and therefore she has to live with the fact that she was a prime Bush enabler. I do think it is one of life's delicious ironies that the information of Harmon's dalliance with AIPAC was heard on a wiretap, although it was legally obtain. And in the Stupidity of Arrogance category, did she think she was immune from wiretaps? Good for Nancy Pelosi denying Harmon the post as head of the intelligence committee, and she didn't even know that Harmon was so dirty.