Monday, January 09, 2006

From the "it's not safe to put democrats in power" file ...
Project Vote Smart's bio of Representative Alcee L. Hastings (D FL) has this listing:
Professional Experience:
Attorney, 1963-1979, 1990-1992
Judge, United States District Court Judge, Southern District of Florida, 1979-1989.
It appears that PVS felt this line was an insignificant footnote:
In 1989, Hastings was impeached by the United States House of Representatives for corruption and perjury, and subsequently became only the sixth Judge in U.S. history to be removed from office by the United States Senate (see table, Impeachment in the United States).
I bring this up because Jane Harman, the ranking member on the House Select Committee on Intelligence is about to be replaced by Hastings.  Why?  Because Nancy Pelosi owes a political debt to the Congressional Black Caucus, and they want Hastings to have the job. 

Now Harman, as far as I can tell, is no worse on defense issues than any democrat, which is to say untrustworthy, but compared to Hastings she's a jewel.  How Hastings could even be elected to congress with his past is another troubling issue, but his placement on a committee as sensitive as House Intelligence is raw stupidity on the part of the democrat leadership. You are entirely  capable of  computing the various permutations involved, especially should democrats ever recapture the House ... .

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Raw bleeding stupidity. I thought perjury was a felony. I guess he was never tried for that once tossed out of his judgeship. It's hard to get elected sitting in a Federal prison.

Pelosi is such a ditz, and the rumble is some Dems realize that; therefore I'm glad in a way that she is Leader, but stuff like this appointment makes her dangerous as well as a useful idiot.

Lt. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Anonymous said...

Democrats don't care about corruption or outright lawbraking, so long as their loons stay in power. Proof: The subjects of King county (Seattle) just re-elected Ron Sims to manage their elections, even though the last election he managed was wrought with fairly well publicized lies, incompetence, and corruption. But Ron's good at making sure donks stay in power (regardless of how people actually vote), and that’s good enough for the Emerald City Moonbats.

I believe liberals are a [significant] minority in this country, but they cheat to win, which worries me... It'd a good thing they have trouble reproducing themselves...

Anonymous said...

"Ohhhhh -- Impeachment doesn't matter -- it's just a word. Look at Bill Clinton."
--Nanci Pelosi ['i' dotted with little death's heads]

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