Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) this morning summed up in one pithy nugget why Americans are sick of Republicans.

In questioning outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, Davis actually attempted to lay the blame for her blown cover at the feet of the CIA itself. Seems that it sticks in Davis' craw that though the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) requires that the CIA take affirmative steps to protect the identities of undercover operatives, and though it is therefore required by law that the CIA report regularly to the Congress on its activities toward that end, such reports have not in fact been filed. The CIA, Davis argues, is therefore at fault because it has not met its obligations under the law.

Of course, this revelation occurs to Davis only now, in relation to this nearly four year old story, and not at any time during his tenure as Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, when he could have actually done something about the lack of reporting.

This is why Americans are sick of Republicans, and took the keys away from them in the last election. And it's why they'll continue to boot even more of them from office. It's because of the shocking hypocrisy of even "moderates" like Tom Davis, who pretend not only that it's the CIA's fault when a Republican White House engineers the outing of a vitally important undercover officer, but doesn't even blush when he suggests that it happened due to his own failure to exercise oversight.

Tom Davis, asleep at the wheel, finally has "tough questions"... for the fencepost he crashed into.