who refused to hold hearings on the federal response to Katrina?

I guess hundreds of thousands of Americans stranded without aid for days and weeks thanks to a fumbling FEMA just wasn't sexy enough to be investigated.

FEMA was a Republican Administration response, or lack of same, so that's OK. The Secret Service brouhaha happened on Obama's watch, so naturally this is far worse...

I thought Lieberman had been voted out or retired already.

He managed to act like a good little Rethug and steal the election in 2006. He's finally retiring this year (I guess he's not up to stealing another election).

Maggie McNeill, whose always provocative and independend-thinking blog The Honest Courtesan provides "a whore's-eye view on current events," is unable to stifle a yawn over the unholy fuss being made over the Secret Service agent and the underpaid escort, which has flowered into a hothouse scandal. McNeill:

...here’s the translated version [of the original news report]: “Partying g-men hired hookers, but one refused to pay what he owed for extra time and got in an argument over it. Then several busybodies who are more discreet when hiring their hookers freaked out.” Period. End of story. C’mon, y’all, this isn’t news, much less a “scandal” unless you consider buyer’s remorse scandalous. I’ve been hired by a number of agents from the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security, the TSA and probably half a dozen other alphabet-soup agencies, not to mention their managers and the congressmen who supervise them. I’m sure every one of my escort readers can say the same thing. Agents also drink liquor, order room service, watch movies, buy souvenirs, and use hotel toilets. Whoopie. Prostitution isn’t even illegal in Colombia, so if not for these asinine rules requiring virile, high-testosterone grown men to behave like nuns nobody would even have heard of this story because the dude wouldn’t have panicked and called attention to himself; he’d have just paid her and she would’ve left. The end...

As McNeill notes, quoting from an article in Reason, the reporter driving this story--Ron Kessler--is racing around with his hair on fire over the national security implications of this and similar extracurricular episodes: possible blackmail, access to secret protocols, political assassination, the whole Tom Clancy apocalyptic clatter of pots and pans. On talk radio I've heard it theorized, i.e., pulled fact-free out of the caller's butt, that the escorts in Cartagena might have worked for a drug cartel or terrorist front, and then what a fine kettle of fish we'd be in, and it'd all be Obama's fault, because everything is.

More at: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott

So the Talking Heads don't need to discuss the things that are really happening.

about the administration's continuation of the nonsensical drug war policy, or Cuba policy that should have been the real story coming from the summit.

""It's the economy, stupid""
If we dont want a republican in the whitehouse (and I know I dont) then Obama has certain priorities and the number #1 right this minute is the economy which is what he is focusing on and addressing the losing war on drugs or the issue with cuba isnt the main concern to most voters right now.

We've lost our health to continuous pesticide spraying, to EMF, ELF, and other nasty electric smog. People are losing their homes, the jobs are outsourced.

The Big Firms on Wall Street have been Bailed Out to the tune of over 16 TRILLIONS of Dollars, but so very good to know that the Secret Service investigation regarding prostitution will proceed full sail ahead.

On another blog, it is reported how Eric Holder does little abut the Wall Street crimes, but over 50 FBI agents are investigating John Edwards. Meanwhile our bought and paid for Congress critters keep Wall Street malfeasance "legal." It all goes to show - go ahead and bring down the nation's economy, just don't have an affair while running for President!

for this a$$hole. He is truly dreadful.

Remember Bill Clinton (along with several high-profile DUers) and an unholy alliance of the state GOP openly shilled for him against Ned Lamont in '06...

Lot more Senators over the years who were more dreadful than Lieberman!!

But she also said we need more female Secret Service agents which is probably true.

what is the link between the two?

I think Loserman sees this as an opportunity to embarrass the Obama administration in an election year, but suppose he finds that the SS is riddled with right wing nut jobs who either (a) don't care or (b) secretly hope that some assassin gets to the president.

You'll see that investigation vanish like a fart in a tornado.

voted for Sarah Palin for Vice President??

will want an internal investigation and hope this will blow up atg Pres O' and his administration which is wishful thinking. When it comes to sex scandals, many Americans just are not that in to it. Now I'm one for subpoening records for the last 15 - 30 years of the Secret Service concerning out of the country as well as home adventures cause it will probably embarrass not just present adminsitration but those from the past.

Go for it GOPPERS!

I do so love a good juicy sex scandal. Will we be spending $45 million on investigating this one?

Because when you are watching something else.. (like a SS Sex Scandal) ...you won't notice how much Lieberman is stealing with the other hand....