Billmon: Secret Sauce

I gotta tip my hat to Harry Reid -- that was a sharp manuever he pulled off today, taking the Senate into secret session in order to punch a hole through the stonewall in Pat Roberts's Senate Whitewash Committee:

After about two hours, senators returned to open session having appointed a six-member task force -- three members from each party -- to review the committee's progress and report back to their respective leaders by Nov. 14.

In some ways, the reaction of the GOP grandees was an even bigger treat than watching the Democratic jellyfish rear up on its hind tentacles and sting someone. Outside of a nursery school, I don't know if I've ever heard such a chorus of crying and whining from a bunch of babies before. The Republicans have been in power so long now they've started to take on the pompous self-righteousness of those who believe power is their due.