"The buck stops where? What buck? Why don't you ask the House. They're responsible for spending bills..."

Rantingprofs is on a roll today, I'm guessing because the whole Rumsfeld testimony is nothing but a staged media event. It gives her plenty of ammo. Or rather, she supplies her own rhetorical ammo and Congress presents plenty of showboating targets.

Well, look at this. Mark Dayton (D-Ohio) is suddenly on Hardball. I watch that show almost every night, Today almost every morning, the Sunday shows almost every week. I've never heard of this guy. He throws a big hissy (and on an utterly absurd issue) and suddenly he's getting some premium face time. And so it goes.

And then Kate O'Beirne scores with the quote of the day over at the Corner.

The one place where the buck never stops, not within five blocks, is with Congress.

Got that right. Some people are demanding a Congressional investigation. Does Congress have to investigate everything? Can our congresscritters please leave CID to do its job, and maybe pay a little attention to their own Constitutionally-mandated responsibilities? Kate O'Beirne continues

Senator John Warner is now deeply worried about accountability and the chain of command. There hasn't been a Secretary of the Army for almost a year (Les Brownlee is testifying today in his temporary, acting capacity) because Senator John Warner has refused to allow the Senate to confirm a new one. On March 2nd at a hearing of his Committee, Senator Warner proudly announced that he was blocking all civilian nominees for the Defense Department because he has his knickers in a twist over the Boeing/Air Force controversy. Good thing there's not a war on. . .

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[John Anderson]

Ah, politics. Jason of IraqNow notes that fifty Senators voted against a non-binding referendum decrying the actions in the Iraqi prisons but also defending the mass of soldiers who hate it: seems forty-nine of the fifty are Democrat - go figure.

http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_iraqnow_archive.html#108397404330694057