Campaign Promises to Keep Campaign Promises to Keep

TCS Daily: Promises to Keep points out that the Democrats partially ran on a platform of implementing the 9/11 Commission proposals, one of which was to centralize authority for Homeland Security in the two Homeland Security committees. Unfortunately, this is not likely to happen with the new committee chairs in both Houses unlikely to give up some of their authority. Worse, Sen. Lieberman is to head the committee in the Senate, and there is still a bit of bad blood there, as many of his Democratic Senate colleages campaigned against him in the last election. In short, another campaign promise that is unlikely to be implemented.