Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Intelligence reform, redux

Tony Blankley takes on the, thankfully deceased, intel reform bill that Duncan Hunter and James Sensenbrenner quashed in the House. Blankley rips the press, the 9-11 Commission, the Left and the Senate for putting together this disaster of a bill and for attacking its opposition. But he goes too easy on the President, who would have signed the blasted thing if it had reached his desk because the President doesn't want to be seen as NOT "doing something" about the problem.

Thus, Pres. Bush would willingly violate the first rule of conservatism: don't just do something, STAND THERE. A maxim touted by William J. Buckley, Jr. and others to explain how doing nothing is better than doing something for the sake of appearances that is fundamentally bad, especially when that bad action has the force of a United States law.

See here and here for other comments on the Intel Reform Bill.

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