Sensebrenner named to committeeto review response to Katrina

It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

From the Miami Herald:

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was named Wednesday to a congressional committee to review the local, state and federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., was one of just 11 House members to vote against the $51.8 billion emergency relief bill last week.

Republicans formed the committee in the face of Democratic demands that an independent commission like the 9/11 Commission, which reviewed the 2001
terrorist attacks, be created instead.

The committee will be chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.

This, of course, is the phony "bipartisan" commission in which Republicans have the majority and are the only ones with subpoena powers. Democrats are boycotting it and holding out for an independent body to review what happened, rather than an administration-run whitewash.

Earlier post: Sensenbrenner consistently heartless.