Reid shuts Senate down

For a few hours today, if you were watching C-SPAN or C-SPAN2 today, you would not have seen any session of the Senate as Senator Harry Reid was able to shut it down.

"They have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why," Democratic leader Harry Reid said.

The afternoon halt in Senate business let Democrats steer the spotlight to the war in Iraq, an issue on which the president is doing badly in public opinion polls.[...]

"The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions," Reid said before invoking Senate rules that led to the closed session.

Americans want answers. The GOP is just not giving it to us. Now on to other news of the day...

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