Little Girly-Man Republicans

This is a heck of a climbdown. Republican Senators on the Intelligence Committee are backing off their earlier calls for hearings into the NSA domestic spying.

Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.

I wonder if it has anything to do with this earlier bit of threatening of the Judiciary Committee by Rove.

You know, for a bunch of tough guy, rugged individualists, the Republicans sure cower alot.

Also, there's a very revealing story in the NYTimes tonight/tomorrow on how the Lincoln Group, the contractor who was caught paying Iraqi papers to publish "favorable" stories, rose from nothing in a few years. Smells like a conman to me. It'd be really interesting to check their political donations, no?