Posted by
Gary A McAvin on Friday, November 24, 2006 7:32:59 AM
Well Madam Dingbat* you are off to a good start? With your first selection of Cut-and-Run emasculated John Murtha for Majority Leader of the House. Who would have believed a Marine would loose their masculinity? Go figure! Why you selected this individual to lead any committee is beyond rational thinking individuals. I guess you only know the answer to that question? Thankfully, the real intelligence in the House prevailed, with the selection of Steny Hoyer to be the Majority Leader. I think we dodged a bullet here!
*ding·bat
n.
1. Slang An empty-headed or silly person.
2. An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
3. Slang An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
4. Printing A typographical ornament or symbol.
Your next choice Madam Dingbat can be explained. The way I see it is this: You needed someone on the Intelligence Committee to keep our enemies informed. Someone has to get the Intel to the New York Times and our enemies! Alcee will do that with minimal costs. The last time he accepted a bribe he only charged $150,000. And what’s a little bribe money among friends? There is plenty to go around, isn’t there? Now here is his explanation in today’s news.
Hastings claims right to be Intelligence chair
Letter cites his credentials, calls his impeachment in 1988 politics
By GREG MILLER
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Competition to head the House Intelligence Committee intensified Wednesday with the release of a letter by Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who says he deserves the job despite the Senate convicting him and removing him as a federal judge after being impeached for involvement in a bribery plot.
Hastings, in a letter sent to Democratic House members, said critics were bent on "denying me a position I have certainly earned and am completely competent to perform."
Hastings is, by seniority, the committee's second-ranking Democrat, after Rep. Jane Harman of California. But Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the incoming speaker of the House, has indicated that when the Democrats take control in January, she plans to take Harman off the committee in favor of someone more critical of the Bush administration's policies on the war in Iraq.
Hastings, 70, would be in line to become chairman of the panel, formally known as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
He had declined repeated requests for comment, but ended that silence Wednesday. It is unclear whether the five-page missive would help his case or hurt it.
In the letter, Hastings decries the "misinformed and sometimes venomous attacks on my integrity and character by pundits, politicians, and editors."
He stresses that he was removed from the bench even though he had been acquitted in a 1983 criminal trial stemming from allegations that he had conspired to accept a $150,000 bribe in return for granting a lenient sentence to two defendants.
Despite that acquittal, a federal judicial panel referred the case to Congress; in 1988, Hastings was impeached by the House. The following year, by a vote of 69 to 26, the Senate convicted him on eight of 17 articles of impeachment and removed him from the bench.
Madam Dingbat, do you really think that Congress is that incompetent in finding him guilty? If you believe that, you are certainly living in a vacuum. 69 people (the majority) found Alcee Hastings guilty of eight articles of impeachment and ejected him from the bench! What is it Madam Dingbat that you do not understand about this?
One can only wonder what your next selections will be. Stalin, Lenin, Marx?