In a way they are or could be but they have clearly been hijacked with an anti-Bush angle and they need to get on track of the purpose.
I will point out that allowing those families with an agenda to sit there and applaud certain testimony is most inappropriate. So was the waving around of Clarke's book as if it was Holy Writ. Then we had Bob Kerrey offer the liar Clarke a job!
Please, you cannot deceive us here.
Well of course they're bipartisan, there's members of both parties on the commision.
There, now doesn't THAT have a liberal ring to it!
Clarke spews some non-sense and the crowd erupts in applause, in a court setting, and you say its a bipartisan thing??
Stand back from the pipe, stand back...you have had enuff to smoke today..
>>Conferring with Clarke
Prior to his testimony Wednesday before the independent 9/11 commission, Richard Clarke conferred privately with one of its Democratic members, according to commission sources.
These sources say Clarke huddled with Tim Roemer, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. Roemer's subsequent questioning of Clarke contained a few barbs but consisted largely of open-ended questions giving the witness a chance to criticize President Bush. Roemer confirmed he had met ''a couple of times'' with Clarke, as he said he had with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA Director George Tenet. ''Nobody coaches Dick Clarke,'' Roemer added.
One reason why House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert unsuccessfully tried to curtail the commission's activities on schedule was the presence of Roemer, his former congressional colleague. Hastert regards Roemer as a partisan who attempts to project a bipartisan image.
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Slight Alteration: I think the 9-11 Commission hearings are supposed to be a bipartisan thing.
They haven't seemed very "bi-partisan" to me. At least the press isn't making them look that way.
Have you seen any of this Soviet show trial?
Certainly, you must be joking. This has been as partisan a witchhunt as you're likely to see anywhere...do you actually believe this is an honest attempt at fact-finding? So far, it's all been about the Left trying to assign blame to the Bush Administration!!
MUD
. . .just like Clarke who implies that he is a Repub and that he votes for - and supports Republicans. When in fact, he voted for Algore; supports John Kerry and contributes only to Democrat candidates and Demrat campaigns.
The Dems have hammered Clarke's bi-partisan credentials into the ground. But, the truth is 'out there' and so we know better.