Intelligence Reform

I have no idea what's going on with the intelligence reform bill. I don't know who's really for it, who's really against it, or why. Two Republican House committee chairman are being praised for "standing on principle" in opposing a bill they say would endanger troops in the field. Rumsfeld would seem to agree, but he says he stands with the President. And Bush says he's for it after he said he was against it. So are the GOP Congressional leaders obstuctionists? Is Bush lobbying for a bill that would hurt our national security? And what about Rumseld? As I said, it's hard to know what to make of this.

It's a good thing, then, that all sides are working to clean this mess up:

In Crawford, Tex., a White House spokeswoman said that Mr. Bush's stance remained unchanged but that the administration was working with members of Congress on legislative language that could accommodate the concerns of House Republicans without diluting the essence of the changes the bill would bring about.

So Bush is going to accomadate his critics without changing his stance, while Congressional leaders will agree to new language that will get them nothing on a substantive level. And somewhere in all this, we're all good with the national security implications. Thank goodness we have a decisive man of action in the White House instead of some flip-flopper you can't trust.