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Originally Posted by dc_dux
LOL.....now this is one that really belongs in Tilted Paranoid .
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Because there is no chance that Hastings will head the committee? We will know the validity of your comment in a couple of months.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
BTW, Pelosi doesnt appoint anyone as chair. The committee chairs will be elected by the Dem caucus.
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It is your prediction then that Harmon will not be REPLACED with Hastings with the approval of Pelosi?
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
It is generally pro forma, with the most senior member being elected as chair. Jane Harmon, the sr Dem on the committee, has said she does not intend to seek the chairmanship.
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It would not be a stretch to attribute that to a problem regarding the speaker-elect.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
And, while Hastings' past record is irrefutable, he has done his homework on the current state of US intelligence.
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"Irrefutable." That's really good. Duke Cunningham should ask for a pardon. His record is "irrefutable," too.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
With the serious international security challenges faced by Americans, the last thing we need is more bitter partisanship which is exactly what this article does.
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Pointing out the abominable (oops, "irrefutable") record of Hastings is "bitter partisanship," but Abramoff is fair game. How impeccably logical.
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..." ~Theodore Roosevelt
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Do you think Theodore Roosevelt would approve of Alcee Hastings? Jimmy Carter? The gun control leanings of Nancy Pelosi?
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Are you sure that there weren't any former Clinton aides that left their post from 1992-2000 when the ban was in effect?
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It's common knowledge that there were, especially if by "left," you mean "were kicked out." Did Marv say otherwise?
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
And the five years would have been up in 2005, so I don't understand why it matters too much today.
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And THAT is the problem! You don't see why it matters when laws are changed at a time when the public is unlikely to notice. Does it matter how many pardons Clinton granted, when some of them would have been out of jail by now?
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
We will see what Pelosi does, but until she makes the announcement it sounds like random speculation.
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Speculation, yes. Random, no.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The "revolving door" between government and industry or lobbying is hardly a Dem phenonima:
Examples (mostly from the last 6 years).
The bar has been set so low by the Repubs, its hard to imagine the Dems will be any worse.
And that doesnt even address the Abramoff scandal, the worst in recent history.
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Ding ding ding!! We have a winner in the "So what, your guy is worse" competition!