WASHINGTON D.C. - Republican leaders sought to take the lead on a congressional investigation of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina this week as criticism of the Bush administration continued to build.
"Americans deserve answers. We must do all we can to learn from this tragedy, improve the system and protect all of our citizens," House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Bill Frist said in a statement.
Having been abducted by aliens 642 times and been an American citizen all my life (except for the year I spent on Zalaxia 4 - try explaining why you couldn't file your taxes to the IRS during an audit for being way out of country) I am extremely, né painfully, aware of probes of all kinds, and let me tell you folks, there has never been a probe of any kind that has turned out well for me as an abductee or an American citizen.
It's always the people or aliens in authority on the giving end of a probe and it is always the abductees or the citizens on the receiving end of a probe. Oh sure, various head honcho aliens and politicians are there asking and answering questions but they always seem to come out smelling like roses, which is definitely not the case as an abductee or U.S. citizen.
I remember my first probe, of the citizen variety, occurring sometime in the 80's. Iran-Contra was all the rage, lots of questions were asked, very few people could actually remember events that had (allegedly) happened, some people got book and television deals out of it, others remained in their political posts, no actual questions were answered and nobody got in any actual trouble. All in all lots of time, effort and money was spent on something bad that had happened and the American citizens didn't get any answers.
9/11 probe? Millions of dollars spent and the only guy who got in trouble was the one who tried to warn us it was going to happen. WMD probe? Too late, already in Iraq, so sorry America, it wasn't anybody's fault really, just some incorrect information, besides, we can't leave the country now. Intern sex in the Whitehouse probe? Spend millions of taxpayer dollars having sex defined and then try to censure the bum for lying. Try to censure...a politician...for lying.
Frankly I prefer the abductee type of probe. I know what to expect, it doesn't cost me a darned cent, and it is over quickly.
So what Mssrs. Hastert and Frist are really saying is: Bend over America, we've got another probe for you - we promise it won't hurt a bit.