Temper, temper!

It's been a bad week. No, I don't mean for Dubya like some seem to think, but for the Lefty Loons.

Harriet Miers (whom the Loons seemed to absolutely love) withdraws her name from U.S. Supreme Court consideration. Dubya, they believe, has been damaged by it. "Don't you go nominating any of those originalists now," they warn, "or we'll have a hissy fit. And you can't afford that 'cause even your own conservatives hate you, now. So, ha!" The following Monday Dubya announces his nomination of Samuel Alito, a jurist who is everything Miers was not.

The Lefty Loons think Fitzmas is going to give them all they've ever dreamed of: dozens of indictments. Rove, Cheney and Bush either resigning or on the way out the door. Behind bars. Instead, some guy named Scooter that no one ever heard of gets gets five "Martha Stewart" indictments. Nothing on the Plamegate fabrications that the MSM has been helping them for over two years pass off as truth.

Ronnie Earle's two indictments, neither one looking particularly solid from the start, against Tom Delay are looking more feeble with each day that passes, and now the judge the Lefty Loons were sure would preside over the case isn't, after it's revealed he's been contributing to one of the Lefty-Loon organizations taking aim Delay in the first place.

So how do you handle all these disappointments? Easy. Make yourself look even more like Loon, of course! Throw a temper tantrum!

And if you're Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, you can throw a big one. You shut down the Senate's business completely by enacting a seldom-used rule for closed sessions. Oh, it's been used before but not often and any Senator can request it. But, there's a traditional courtesy involved. You let the other side know and the closed session is scheduled. Instead, surprise!

Reid demanded the Senate go into closed session. With a second by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the public was ordered out of the chamber, the lights were dimmed, senators filed to their seats on the floor and the doors were closed.

The cameras were ready and rolling when Reid, flanked by Chuck Shumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill), came out.

As Reid spoke, Majority Leader Bill Frist met in the back of the chamber with a half-dozen senior GOP senators, including Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, who bore the brunt of Reid's criticism. Reid said Roberts reneged on a promise to fully investigate whether the administration exaggerated and manipulated intelligence leading up to the war.

Later, voice shaking, Roberts let Reid have it.

I haven't been able to find a transcript (If anyone stumbles across it, please drop the link in a reply.) of what Roberts said, so all I have is memory which may not be completely accurate. Even if it isn't, I think it's close enough.

That investigation Reid's talking about? Roberts (R), Intelligence Committee Chairman, said it's been done since May but the committee still hasn't been able to finalize and release it. The delay?

The Democrats. Those who've been quoted in it saying Saddam had WMD can't seem to find the time to verify they made those statements and if they did, what the basis for their statement was, or even deny that they made the statements attributed to them.

They keep begging off, Roberts said, because they have so many other pressing things to attend to.