During the campaign season, Democrat after Democrat pledged to implement every, single recommendation of the 9/11 Commission.  Apparently, they were just joking:

But with control of Congress now secured, Democratic leaders have decided for now against implementing the one measure that would affect them most directly: a wholesale reorganization of Congress to improve oversight and funding of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Instead, Democratic leaders may create a panel to look at the issue and produce recommendations, according to congressional aides and lawmakers.

It seems that the reorganization that the Commission wants would take away some power from the Armed Services Committee and the Appropriations Committee and transfer it to the Intelligence Committee.  Of course, the powerful Democrats who sit as the chairs of the affected committees can’t have that.  I guess protecting their power is more important than protecting America.

The Democrats defense will be that the Republicans balked at the same reforms.  That doesn’t fly.  The Democrats said they were changing the culture.  I guess they meant they would make the changes in some future, unspecified way much like they did with their plans for Iraq.

I am still amazed that people really believed that things would change when the Democrats took power.

H/T Drudge