Senate Majority leader and presidential hopeful (he can keep hoping because he is never going to be President) posted this afternoon at VOLPAC blog that he supports the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, S. 2590 and wants to bring it to the Senate floor for debate and eventually a vote.

It seems that some mystery Senator has put a super double agent secret hold on the bill. Up until now 89 Senators have publicly stated they are not holding up the bill. Hot Air has it narrowed down to one of three possible scumbags.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that the final three are, alas, all Republicans. For shame.

Captain Ed, eliminates one of the suspects:

I noted three Republicans whose lack of response puzzled me — well, two of them, anyway. Jon Kyl has been a consistent voice for fiscal responsibility, so I took out the cell phone and called his offices in DC. The friendly staffer who answered told me unequivocally that Kyl did not place the hold on S2590, and in fact supported the bill. I asked twice just to be sure he knew this for a fact, and received strong assurances both times.

So for some reason if any Senator approaches his party leader he can ask to have a hold placed on any bill anonymously. Why can’t we ask both Senator Frist, and Senator Reid if anyone in their party asked them to place a hold on the bill?

Why can’t we expect them to answer that question honestly?

Why can’t we expect them to leak the damn name of the scumbag who is holding up this legislation?

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