Investigation over Legislation

WaPo writer David Broder whines about "Investigation, not legislation"

Accountability is certainly important, but Democrats must know that people were really voting for action on Iraq, health care, immigration, energy and a few other problems. Investigations are useful, but only legislation on big issues changes lives.

First of all, the piece doesn't really feel like it gets to his point until the last paragraph. Annoying.



But more importantly...

People did vote for the issues he lists, but the bigger problem is lack of trust in one's government. The populace has to trust that their leadership will do something about those issues, and even more so, that they trust them to do something good about those problems. Don't believe me? Corroborating evidence at Kos

So if the Dems feel the need need to clean house, and prove that the rampant corruption is at least slightly better, first, go for it. Its not just that the Dems are going to draft new policy on "health care, immigration, energy and a few other problems," but that they are going do make any policy other than "stay the course in Iraq." Apparently, Republicans were wasting so much time sending emails ranking loyal Bushies and leaking classified information in order to protect shoddy reasoning that they hardly seemed to produce any policy on anything other than Iraq -- and that Iraq policy didn't change for five years.

So, yes, investigation before legislation. We generally have too many bickering laws anyway, lets go with the KISS theory, and actually spend some time cleaning up the Capitol instead.