It was all coming together beautifully for them. The investigation of Karl Rove was in progress, nearly 2,000 soldiers had died in Iraq, President Bush’s pick of Harriet Miers was blowing up in his face and there were hurricanes to blame the President for. It was all so perfect.

Then everything the Democrats hoped for suddenly started slipping through their hands.

Instead of indicting Rove, the prosecutor went after Libby, before the Democrats could celebrate the 2,000 soldiers dead in Iraq, the Iraqi Constitution passed overwhelmingly, Miers withdrew and President Bush appointed a true conservative, and everyone forgotten about the hurricanes.

They had to do something fast, so Harry Reid resorted to a cheap political trick and demanded a secret session in the Senate.

According to the CRS Report for Congress, secret sessions “are held to discuss business such as Senate deliberations during impeachment trials, issues of national security, and sensitive communications received from the President, all deemed to require confidentiality and secrecy.”

Like a spoiled brat who stubbornly sits on the floor, Senator Reid led the democrats into abusing the Senate rules and derailing Senate business for their own political pleasure.

The Democrat’s political stunt surrounded an ongoing investigation by the intelligence committee on the faulty evidence that led to the war in Iraq. The Intelligence Committee’s 2004 report found the mistaken intelligence obtained by the United States, Britain, and the U.N. was not politically driven. Their second study, or “Phase 2,” focused on the crucial errors made by the United States’ intelligence community.

Reid said he pulled the stunt so that the Democrats could know the status of Phase 2, but all he had to do was saunter up to Senator Roberts, chairman of the intelligence committee, and ask him. Roberts, in fact, told them the status of the report 2 days earlier.

So what is the secret? The Democrats are frustrated losers? Aw heck, Harry, everybody knows that.

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Tip o’ the hat to:

• Stop the ACLU
• Basil’s Blog
• Don Surber
• Everyman Chronicles
• The Political Teen
• The Templar Pundit
• Cao’s Blog
• Jo’s Cafe