Senate Kills Bid for Katrina Commission

AP reports Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina. The New York Democrat's bid to establish the panel _ which would have also made recommendations on how to improve the government's disaster response apparatus _ failed to win the two-thirds majority needed to overcome procedural hurdles.

They are telling the truth that it failed to win a 2/3 majority, but it is a bit desceptive, since it failed to even achieve a majority. The vote was 44 yea, 54 nay, 2 not voting. It was a party-line vote.

Michelle Malkin blogged But Republicans have folded before, and may yet do so again...