The Charges of Partisanship on the 9/11 Panel

The last few days, the air waves and other media have been filled with calls of partisanship and bias on the 9/11 panel. All of the complaints, of course, have been about Democrats on that panel.

But this should come as no surprise. After all, for weeks, we've heard about the "partisan" members of the panel from the mainstream media itself, and the only partisans they were talking about, clearly enough, were the Democrats, as if a) 9/11 is strictly political - and it's not or wasn't until Bush's handlers got hold of it (or worse, if you listen to the conspiracy theorists who believe Cheney, Carlisle, some entity besides bin Laden alone engineered that horrific day) b) that the Republicans were the one true voice and everyone else were complainers and c) that Thomas Keane, a Republican although a fairly moderate one, had not encouraged all the members of the panel - and not just Dems - to sit down for interviews.

Me thinks the GOP is gearing up for what it sees as criticism of our feckless leader who stayed on vacation during a time of grave warnings, and then tried to roll the day into part of his "great legacy".