Dec 14, 2006

Pelosi stumbles: appoints clueless Intel chief

There is an article here that asks, “Does intelligent life on the Intelligence Committee matter?”

This isn't an existential question. It arises because Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, in an appointment fraught with intrigue, selected Representative Silvestre Reyes to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

In an interview posted on Congressional Quarterly's Web site on Dec. 8, Reyes couldn't answer the most basic question about the antagonists in the biggest foreign policy disaster confronting the U.S.

As if that article wasn’t enough to project Reyes as an incorrigible bumbler, look at the Times Online article here titled, “Inept Democrats face failure with poor start in Congress.”

It’s a bad start, and the risk is that the Democrats are going to throw away their big chance.