Iceberg Warning

Republicans are starting to jump ship:

Congressman Jim Leach (R, Iowa) has informed Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D, California) that he will co-sponsor her Resolution of Inquiry into Bush Administration communications with the U.K. about Iraq at the time of the Downing Street Memos.  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.

According to the article, two more Republican votes and this gets through the International Relations Committee. There are 27 Republicans on it. It's very realistic this will get to the full House, where Republicans will be on the spot to back their White House and risk re-election, or save their political hides and throw the Adminstration overboard. I'll let you in on a secret: politicians usually try to save their own hides before they worry about someone else's.
 
This is not going away.