Posted on 11/09/2006 1:12:21 PM PST by peggybac
Rep. Nancy Pelosi plans to sideline colleagues who are hawkish on national security in the Democratic leadership in the House.
Democratic Party sources said as House Speaker, Ms. Pelosi plans to block moves that would place hawks into important chairmanships. The sources said a key casualty would be Rep. Jane Harman, a six-term member of Congress who has cooperated with Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee.
"Nancy Pelosi wants total party discipline," a source in the Democratic Party leadership said. "If you played ball with the Republicans during this session, then you're not going to be given an important chair in the next session."
As the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Ms. Harman was expected to become chairman of the powerful committee. But Ms. Pelosi is expected to pass over Ms. Harman for either Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida or Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, the second-and third-ranking Democrats on the intelligence panel.
The 42-member Congressional Black Caucus has been pushing for Mr. Hastings, an impeached federal judge, to become chairman. Earlier this year, the caucus was upset by Ms. Pelosi's decision to expel Rep. William Jefferson from the committee after he was accused of accepting bribes.
"There is no seniority on the Intelligence Committee," Ms. Pelosi said. "The leader or the speaker can appoint a whole new set of people."
The sources said the 61-year-old Ms. Harman, regarded as the best informed House Democrat on intelligence and technology issues, angered the liberal Ms. Pelosi by supporting the Bush administration’s policies on defense issues, particularly the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act. They said Ms. Pelosi has rebuffed lobbyists in the pro-Israel community and defense industry that sought a chairmanship for Ms. Harman.
"If Nancy Pelosi's apparent determination to deny Jane Harman the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee to appease the Black Caucus is any indication, Democratic control is not going to be good news for those who believe in competent oversight of the national-security apparatus," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute.
Ms. Harman, who helped the Democrats draft a national security agenda for the campaign, said she hoped to remain a leading voice on defense issues. She said her California constituents want her to be on the House Intelligence Committee.
"House Intelligence Committee activities are directly relevant to the major concerns of my constituents," Ms. Harman said.
Pelosi forgets that Harman could change party affiliation then what? Just dreaming.
No way! The party of No Ideas Except Bitchin' is going to be putting on an impossibly great show over the next few months!
Hey, just think of it as the Dem verison of "No Child Left Behind"!
Yup. Not even swore in and out come the knives! However, this ought to be fun watching the Dems make fools of themselves.
You mean:
No Child's Behind Left?
This quote from worldnetdaily says of the Democratic Socialists of America:
"Another song on the site was "Red Revolution" sung to the tune of 'Red Robin.' The lyrics went: 'When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there'll be no more lootin' when we start shootin' that Wall Street throng. ...' Another song removed after WorldNetDaily's expose was 'Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?' The lyrics went: 'Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie.'" [my emphasis]
Sounds pretty hawkish to me -- but hey! the songs could just be a collection of botched jokes?
Wot?
"Rep. Nancy Pelosi plans to sideline colleagues who are hawkish on national security in the Democratic leadership in the House."
She means hawkish for the U.S. of A ?
Never mind.
Kumbayah, my Lord....snap, &*(#$, ouch,you *itch)...
And, Hillary has to take a back seat in knowing that Nancy Pelosi is the first woman in the highest leadership role in the country (blach!)
"Alcee Hastings in charge....the gift that keeps on giving."
Indeed. So much for "ending the culture of corruption"!
They are going to get theirs. And if you bumblebee liberal stink hole, bother me any more on my mail I will report you again, you pervert lib stalker.
Let's show some respect Here!!!!!........Mrs.Senator BILL Clinton! Heh!!!.............
What? The same guy that spent most or the last year telling us all what a lousy guy Allen and Bush were and how great Jim Webb and John McCain is KNEW the Democrats had no hawks? So why did you think Jim Webb was going to work out ok when you knew his military credentials would not be backed up at all by anyone else in his party? Give you a little hint. Who controls the Congress controls the agenda. Doesn't matter even if Webbs heart is pure Conservative Gold. He will only get to vote on things the rabid Leftist allow on the floor.
If she chooses Hastings as chairman do you think the MSM will inform their readers that he's an impeached judge? When pigs fly!
It's only going to be her dicipline.
Seniority...
I will make it clear to you. YOU are not the person I was talking about. I have been mailed all day from some lib stalker who hasn't got the guts to talk in an open forum and I was still irritated. Sorry
Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi demonstrates how the phlanges of the Socialist International work:
"...on this hand, we have the Worker's World Party, Not In Our Name, World Can't Wait, and the various Baathist and Latin American authoritarian socialists; on this hand, we have the Democratic Socialists of America, the House Progressive Caucus, MoveOn, ACORN, and the SEIU. Two hands, working together to strangle the bourgeoisie!"
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