“Sorry, haters, God is not finished with me yet.”

The above quote is from Representative Alcee Hastings in response to Nancy Pelosi’s decision to name neither Hastings nor Jane Harmon to the House Intelligence Committee.

In 1981, Hastings was impeached as Federal judge for soliciting bribes in exchange for lenient sentences. He was acquitted in his trial, but his co-conspirator,  William Borders, was sentenced to five years in jail – he also was sentenced twice more for contempt for refusing to testify against Hastings in grand jury proceedings in the same matter. Borders was pardoned by Bill Clinton during the final hours of Clinton’s presidential term.

So instead of just saying “No, I’m not going to have an impeached judge in charge of the nation’s most important intelligence. I’d rather have an experienced and proven leader”, Pelosi is just not making the choice between the two. And why? Two reasons; Harmon was reluctant to criticize the Bush Administration during the NSA wiretap dust-up (maybe because it’s legal and ethical?) and because Pelosi has already angered the Black Congressional Caucus once this year by unseating William Jefferson from the ways and Means Committee after the FBI found $90,000 in his freezer – after taping him taking a cool hundred grand in bribes.

See, ladies, Democrats won’t even name women to positions ahead of criminals when it’s a question of race. You’re still second-class citizens. And Pelosi is no leader. In the mold of Bill Clinton, she sticks her finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing before making up her mind. That’s not leadership, that’s a linguine spined coward. Unfortunately for the Left, there are absolutely right or wrong answers – the real world doesn’t compromise. That’s why the next two years are going to provide bloggers with ample subject material.

I always thought Harmon was a reasonable Democrat. She never hesitated to come on Fox News Channel and explain herself, or explain the issue of the day. She wasn’t one of the wild-eyed Bush-haters, but there was no mistaking that she was  indeed a Democrat. I always thought that she put National Security ahead of politics, though.

I guess that’s why there’s no room for her in the next Congress’ so-called leadership.

 

Category: Politics