Reid Almost Made Them Cry

After a very smooth parliamentary move by Sen. Reid, holding the Republicans feet to the fire on past promises, Bill Frist, and some other leaders of the Senate Republicans, were almost in tears. They were absolutely in hysterics, denouncing the democrats for having the gall to demand that they do what they had promised.

Some of the funniest TV I have seen in years.

Keep it up guys, you will have them weeping in public any day now.

The best part is it worked. The Republicans have agreed to get the investigation into the White House use of intelligence and the Iraq war.

U.S. Senators reached an agreement to monitor a congressional investigation into the Bush administration's use of intelligence about Iraq after Democrats forced an unusual closed session on the Senate floor to draw attention to the issue.

The closed session began about 2:15 p.m. today Washington time when Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid invoked a rule forcing the session, which required the chamber to be cleared of visitors and cameras to be turned off. It ended about 4:35 p.m. with Majority Leader Bill Frist announcing the creation of a six- member task force to monitor progress of the probe.

Good news all the way around.