Sometimes headlines, or teaser headlines make you go: “No, Really?” because they’re what one would anticipate. Here’s two that are up at Drudge right now:
Lawmakers Find Evidence of Intelligence Failures on Iraq
Really? More than what David Kay reported? How soon until Tennet gets a pink slip? (last part is wishful thinking)
Update Turns out these findings were from a seven month ’study’. It basically says what a lot of us in the blogsphere have been saying for a long time–the CIA isn’t doing its job. Our intel is basing itself way too much on ELINT and SIGNIT rather than utilizing HUMINT.
Second: Outrage in Congress as Medicare overhaul cost estimates rise dramatically…
I can’t blame them at all. One of the the only reasons it somehow passed was that lawmakers were promised it wouldn’t go above $400 billion—yeah, and I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Wasn’t Medicare only $6 million (or was it billion) annually? The moral of the story–gov’t price tags are just about never right–I mean look at the Big Dig!
Update: So apparently the Dems don’t think we’re spending enough still, but the Conservatives are very, very mad. They at the very least better put a spending cap on this.
[sorry, I’m just in one of those odd moods right now–that’s the only reason why I post things like this
and I’ll link to the stories once I see the hyperlink on Drudge]