Flutterby™! : Senate imitates Dilbert

Just when I thought the Republicans were being so moronic I'd have to drop my "they're both about equally evil, just in slightly different ways" cynicism, the Democrats come through: Three Democratic Senators have told Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to "keep it quiet" over delays in implementing the new bag check regulations. In a show of complete pointy-hairedness, Senators Ernest Hollings, D-S.C, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. have ignored repeated FAA statements that new bag check procedures can't be implemented in the time allotted, and are now apparently playing "completion date negotiations" in public.

The assessment, however, did not deter Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., from insisting "it's not acceptable to the Congress for (Mineta) to announce you're not able to meet deadlines that we've established."