Leach Joins Demand for Documents on Downing Street Memos

Leach Joins Demand for Documents on Downing Street Memos

Good for Jim. He needs to get beat anyway:

Leach is the first Republican member of Congress to publicly support a demand for an inquiry into the Bush Administration's pre-war claims. The 131 congress members who have signed Congressman John Conyers' letter to the President about the Downing Street Memo are all Democrats. The 11 Senators who have asked the Senate Intelligence Committee to do the investigation it committed to in February 2004 but never did are all Democrats.

Even though Leach on occasion does something good, he's a vote for Republican control, a vote for Republican committee chairs, a vote for DeLay, a vote for stonewalling the very Downing Street Memo he votes to release.

Partisanship matters. Party matters. A majority of Democrats have signed on to Conyer's inquiry, as opposed to less than one percent of Republicans.