All Is Going According to Plan
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First Nancy Pelosi backed scandal tarred Jack Murtha to be House Majority Leader. Now, it appears, she will ditch Jane Harman for the Intelligence Committee, in favor of impeached former federal judge Alcee Hastings.
And let us remember that Congressman Hastings was impeached on corruption charges. China and Cuba are going to love having Chairman Hastings in charge. I wonder if his pocketbook will share that love.
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she meant from the country and put them all in positions of power in the Democratic House.
I know the term is sometimes overused -- as is "surreal," which might also apply -- but she's filling the corridors of power with: freaks.
It's macho,"In Your Face," and foolish. What is that woman thinking?
Though certainly us conservatives don't support her, its hard to argue with her work in the minority. I personally think she has been responsible and willing to actually be "bipartisan." The thing is, Democrats just want to talk about it, not practice it. Harman joins Joe Lieberman in that list
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That article just says she plans on skipping Jane Harman. What I've heard is that she's going to pass over Harman and Hastings to give the chairmanship to Silvestre Reyes. Pelosi wants to throw a bone to the Hispanic Caucus, since they played a rather large role in the election. I'd be surprised if Reyes didn't get the chair.
Yes, I'm a Democrat. No, I don't hate Republicans.
"Pelosi has nursed a well-publicized grudge against her fellow California Democrat because she believes Harman has not been a tough enough critic of President Bush on security matters, while using her ties to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee to lobby for the chairmanship," Shailagh Murray and Juliet Eilperin reported for the Post last week.
Reports indicate that Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings may become chairman, instead, due to considerable lobbying by the Congressional Black Caucus.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Why_Pelosi_so_tough_on_Harman_1113.htm...
The scuttlebutt circulating in Washington, DC is that Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings may become the next chairman of the House of Representative's Intelligence Committee. The Congressional Black Caucus has been pressuring the new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appoint blacks to key leadership positions and Hastings may benefit from the pressure on the radical left Pelosi.
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=6219
Filling the exceedingly sensitive post of House Intelligence Committee chairman will be a good test of how Pelosi works. Her fellow Californian Jane Harman, its ranking member, wants the job, but Pelosi doesn't particularly like Harman, so speculation is that Pelosi could go to the next in line, Florida's Alcee Hastings. That would please the black caucus, but there's no small political problem in the fact that in 1989 Hastings was impeached by the (Democratic) House and removed by the (Democratic) Senate from his federal judgeship for conspiring to take a $150,000 bribe (although he had been acquitted in court).
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558305,00.html
And that's just three picks from the top of a Google News search on "Alcee Hastings".
No, Comrade Pelosi knows exactly what she wants, and she'll use any crook she can to get it. Even though I think losing this election is less bad than losing 08, I'm not sure that losing this one isn't bad enough to start us on the permanent descent into oblivion. We've certainly lost Iraq, a critical front in the GWoT.
No, I've heard that Hastings is up for it, too. I just assumed that he was mentioned only because he's next in line. Everyone knows about Pelosi's rough relationship with Harman, so it's kind of assumed that she won't get the spot. Hastings may get the job, but I'm betting he doesn't, just because of the possible political fall-out. The CBC already has Ways and Means and the Whip spot, so I don't think they'll push real hard for Hastings. Reyes seems to be the choice of the Blue Dogs.
BTW, just so you know that I wasn't pulling the Reyes thing out of my rear:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8KV9URO0.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/us/politics/10intel.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR200610...
Yes, I'm a Democrat. No, I don't hate Republicans.
About half are blindly yelling YAY MURTHA! and trying to whip up support for him. About half are desperately pleading that he isn't a real progressive. It's fantastically entertaining.
Donuts? Go nuts!
- Murtha is right on Iraq but way too far right on everything else.
- Hoyer is too conservative on everything.
- I guess they see Pelosi as a moderate and anything to the right of her is unacceptable.
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Bipartisanship = give + take. Republicans give. Democrats take.
All is going according to plan for Republicans as well. According to Robert Novak, the losers appear ready to reinstall Boehner and Blunt as leader and whip. This will be done even though most acknowledge that both did a lot to contribute to the election debacle. Maybe we are stupid.
I will have lost faith if they choose these two again...
We know what we are against. But we need to show this country what we offer other than a rant of criticism for the next two years.
The Democrats were pretty shrill and most of us complained that they had No Plan.
Cheer Up My Dull Mind, PLEASE. What's progressive and conservative for us to embrace???
Nov. 13: Corruption, that's so YESTERDAY!
Pelosi actually voted for Hastings's impeachment...
Yep - I'm positive that's what the people meant when they said the voted for "change" last Tuesday.
Aye-yah. That's gonna git 'er done.
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