Or MO'ASS for short.
I saw this NYTimes article about the Congressional commission on reforming the UN. What caught my attention was the online teaser,
A Congressionally mandated panel will report that the U.N. suffers from poor management, and a lack of accountability and professional ethics.
leaving me to chuckle ... Pot & Kettle stuff ya know. But the panel is a bi-partisan one headed by the Newt and George Mitchell so it's not likely to be, in and of itself, a partisan attack on the UN. The coming week's spin will be a different story and the Times article alludes to this (more below) without, unfortunately, setting up the context or contrast. I guess tonight that's my job.
I now know why the GOP wants to cut Sesame Street: they fear the Count! `Cause we might start counting the number of relevant Congressional investigations...
- 0 on the leaking of Valeria Plames' identity
- 0 on pre-War intelligence manipulation
- 1 (perfunctory) on Abu-Griab abuse, 0 followup, 0 on renditions, 0 on Gitmo, ....
- 0 on WH propaganda (JimmyJeff, Armstrong Williams, ....)
- 0 on $8.8 billion missing Iraqi funds
- 0 on US allowing Saddam to smuggle oil through Jordan and elsewhere
- ... add your favorite in comments ...
And we know from Friday what happens when a congressional inquiry hits too close to home. But in the article we find there are,
Five Congressional committees and the Justice Department are conducting inquiries into the United Nations' oil-for-food program, created to allow Iraq to sell oil to meet the needs of its civilian population.
Five?!?!
So, as said above, expect the GOP to be spinning this report to death. Attacking the `bad guys' is how they came to power in the first place. Its what they know best.