Hastings Graceful, Pelosi Careful as She Steps Over Another Ethical Land Mine | NowPublic News Coverage

Hastings Graceful, Pelosi Careful as She Steps Over Another Ethical Land Mine

by publicreader | November 29, 2006 at 09:27 am

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In a statement (published in the Miami Herald), Representative Alcee Hastings, the former front runner for head of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence in the 110th Congress, takes his rejection gracefully- even allusively. The candidate said in a press conference that while he was obviously disappointed with the decision... we learn in Ecclesiastes, however, for everything there is a season.

And given the thin Democratic majority, the ethical hue and cry surrounding the stillborn Murtha fracas , and the need to starve the right-wing slime machine of material insofar as it is possible to do so, it is definitely not the season to appoint a formerly impeached official to the chair of this important committee, no matter how able he might have been. Of course, that is no reason to leave Jane Harmon in the seat of power. Harmon, a conservative Democrat, appears to many to have endorsed the Bush regime's reign of secrecy and executive privilege with far too much enthusiasm.
Keep looking, Nancy, Surely the talent pool provides more choices than a formerly impeached official, competent though he may be in the tasks ahead, and a Bush regime collaborator,.

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nukegingrich

at 11:07 on December 1st, 2006

As a member in good standing of the right wing slime machine, I can assure you that there will be no shortage of material to write about during Ms. Pelosi's tenure.

By the way, perhaps you can explain to me the recent calls for "bipartisanship", when any Democrat cooperation with the Administration is viewed by the Left as being in "collaboration with the Bush regime"?

regards,

nuke

publicreader

at 17:07 on December 1st, 2006

Good question, nuke. The "bipartisan" bit means two things. One is that the Congress has the idea ( maybe delusional?) that they can actually get something done, and that something would be easier some Administration cooperation. However, another interpretation is that the "bipartisan" talk reflects the endemic confusion that haunts the Democrats about why they won- to what do they owe their election victory? The easy thing to do is to claim the "center" because at the moment, no one wants to an extremist.

I always enjoy the way you think, even if you are part of the machine- in fact, because you are.

nukegingrich

at 21:22 on December 1st, 2006

I think there should be no doubt to whom the Democrats owe their victory: the Left blogosphere. At least, in my humble opinion.

The Left OWNS the internet, beginning with Howard Dean's 2000 run for the nomination. Some of those same wiz-kids are behind the growth of web 2.0 (including NowPublic). Along with that growth has come control of the placement of 2 or 3 and sometimes 4 of the top 5 news stories in the daily news cycle. That means from the git-go, well over half of the news stories in a normal cycle are going to have a negative orientation toward Republicans, unless some major news event occurs and sucks up all of the oxygen.

The Right usually gets 1 or 2 stories from their dominance of talk radio, or from the LGF or Michelle Malkin type bloggers, but the dominance of the Left on the internet is undeniable. Funny part about it, publicreader, is that most of the Right blogosphere is oblivious to it. I've been shouting about it for some time now, but our side is a lot more top down than your side.

nuke