The GOP Implosion In Slow Motion

Another hilarious (in a painful, jab-in-the-stomach kind of way) GOP Hypocrites story via Eschaton. It starts with two GOP Senators calling for an enquiry into the WaPo's recent story about secret "black site" torture prisons. But they didn't want an enqiry into the prisons - they wanted an enquiry into who leaked the story to the press!

It gets better. Another GOP Senator, Trent Lott, responded by saying it was a GOP Senator who leaked the information:

He says the details had been discussed at a GOP Senators-only meeting last week, and that many of those details made it into the WaPo story.

Money quote from Lott; "We can not remain silent. We have met the enemy, and it is us."

All just reported on CNN. We are, folks, witnessing the full-on implosion of the national Republican Party. And not a second too soon.

But wait. There's more. Straight from CNN:

Trent Lott stunned reporters by declaring that this subject was actualy discussed at a Senate Republican luncheon, Republican senators only, last tuesday the day before the story ran in the Washington Post. Lott noted that Vice President Cheney was also in the room for that discussion and Lott said point blank "a lot of it came out of that room last tuesday, pointing to the room where the lunch was held in the capitol." He added of senators "we can't keep our mouths shut." He added about the vice president, "He was up here last wek and talked up here in that room right there in a roomful of nothing but senators and every word that was said in there went right to the newspaper." He said he believes when all is said and done it may wind up as an ethics investigation of a Republican senator, maybe a Republican staffer as well. Senator Frist's office not commenting on this development. The Washington Post not commenting either.

Do we laugh or cry?