WP, Milbank: Tough Times for the 'Sissy 6' (Senate Select Comm. on Intel)

[DeepModem Mom]

Tough Times for the 'Sissy Six'
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, November 9, 2005; Page A02


....Then there are the half-dozen senators negotiating this week over a new intelligence committee probe: "The Sissy Six."

This unfortunate sobriquet, divulged by a committee staffer to reporters yesterday, comes from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence acronym, SSCI. As it happens, the Sissy Six are under pressure to demonstrate that they don't deserve the name....

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The Democratic members of the Sissy Six -- Jay D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va), Carl M. Levin (Mich.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) -- filed through the frosted-glass doors of the intelligence committee office just after 10 a.m. Two Republican members -- Bond and Trent Lott (Miss.) -- followed, but Roberts kept them waiting until 10:15....

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The six did not agree on the key disputes: how long a probe would take, which administration officials would be interviewed, and how to handle the activities of former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith's office. They punted the questions to a meeting of the full committee scheduled for this morning. And, by all accounts, it was tense....Still seething, (Roberts) reported that the six "had a very frank and candid discussion" -- diplomatic code for tense and fruitless -- and added that the committee would act "in a bipartisan manner to the degree we can achieve that."

Rockefeller reached out for a handshake. Roberts seemed baffled by the gesture and, after a painful pause, took the ranking Democrat's hand. Before Rockefeller could make his statement, Roberts turned and walked away. "There's no question that there are several areas where there are substantial disagreements," Rockefeller allowed....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801486.html

[atommom]

1. Damn, Roberts is an embarrassment. I wish we could get him out of there.

He's not up for re-election yet, though...

[calimary]

3. Did somebody say something about "Sore Loserman"? Girlie-man, maybe?

I dunno... maybe I'm just hearing things...


:evilgrin:

[atommom]

5. He's gonna take his toys and go home.

THAT'LL show 'em. :evilgrin:

[hlthe2b]

4. Send him back to KS to teach creationism...err Intelligent Design..

:eyes:

My GOd, I have reasonably sane relatives in KS. They may have conservative tendencies, but they surely must be appalled at this whole ignorant debaucle.

[afdip]

2. we can only hope they will keep the pressure on the repukes

and refuse to allow a whitewash of the lies and machinations leading up to the iraqi invasion.

[thebigidea]

6. what an awful closing line: "these are not the words of a sissy."

Roberts is a complete weakling, a spinless tool of the Bushies, an old drunken blowhard with the worst nose this side of WC Fields. Figures that a little worm like Milbank would gollum it up at his feet and praise the tough guy.

[readmylips]

7. Sissy Six, sounds like a KKKarl R/Bush leak to the press....

only bush/kkkarl come up with those names. Karl Rover who never went to college has wingged it all his life. His time is up. Karl, go sell some cars to your republican criminal gang. Of course, bush the guy who went to college and never learned anything to cheer lead.