The Downing Street Memo

I know most Democratic bloggers are heartbroken over the failure of the Downing Street Memo to bring down the Bush administration. I cannot understand this sentiment. The fact that Bush decided to go to war first, and decided to look at the intelligence second is obvious. He can't admit it, but everyone knows its true. There are documents going back to 1991 from members of his administration calling for regime change. Rumsfield and Wolfowitz were members of a group that took out ads in the New York Times in the 90's calling for war. That fact that Bush fixed intelligence is not and has never been a secret. The Downing Street memo is just proof of what everyone already knew, it changes nothing.

If the Senate or the House were in Democratic hands, maybe the memo would have made a difference. It could have served as the hard proof justifing a congressional investigation. But Washington is completly dominated by the GOP, and that being the case it should be no surprise that no one wants to talk about things they already know and could hurt them in elections.