Josh Marshall has a good summary of the ways that the current Bush plan to implement the 9/11 commission recommendations isn’t really implementing it at all. Of course the most significant (and underreported) thing he says comes at the bottom:

Now, for what it’s worth, I’m not at all happy with the way that the dynamics of the election year are rushing the process of adopting this list of recommendations which, at the end of the day, is still the product of a small group of people, done with relatively little open debate.

Is it somehow politically unseemly for Congress to debate these proposals and to get more people talking about what it means to implement these ideas?