Comments on: Personal Vindictiveness

By: mokus

mokus — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:45:50 +0000

Nancy Pelosi and the Politics of Personal Vindictiveness:

149 to 86, the adults in the Democrat Party saved Pelosi from herself. The GOP would’ve had a field day kicking ABSCAM John Murtha around. The Culture of Corruption tag would have dogged the John and Nancy show every day for two years at least.

Pelosi may not know it now, but she owes Steny Hoyer big time. Now, how she deals with Jane Harmon will show if she’s capable of learning from her mistakes.

By: de

de — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:19:54 +0000

What is Pelosi’n net worth?

By: Arlo

Arlo — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:53:35 +0000

I heard on one of the show’s that Hastings will become Chairman of another committee; forget the name of the person who would chair the Intelligence Committee.

Obviously, the Republicans are the ones who will have big internal fights because they messed up so bad. Go back to the late spring and the media was talking about Republicans picking up seats in the House and Senate and now, it looks like Republicans will become a regional party in the South unless they figure out how to deal with this problem of having glommed religion onto their party.

By: The Anchoress » The rise and fall and rise of Pelosi - UPDATED

The Anchoress » The rise and fall and rise of Pelosi - UPDATED — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:16:10 +0000

[...] I’m going to stick with what I wrote, but allow me to clarify my meaning: Nancy will make her historic ascension to the Speaker’s chair. She “earned” it and the Dems rather like owning the “First Woman Speaker” bit (because heaven knows, Republican women are never “first” at anything). But she will not be there long. I figure 6-8 months – a year, tops – when all the hype and hysteria have died down, Rahm Emmanuel will be slipped into that seat and start putting everything in play for November ‘08. He might even smack down this thug and say “quit dictatin’ to us!” [...]

By: Anchoress

Anchoress — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:15:07 +0000

Sometimes you read this stuff and you just wonder who has what goods on who?

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:26:26 +0000

The funny thing about Pelosi/Hastings is that she voted to impeach the guy back then, as part of an overwhelmingly Democrat House. So now she’s going to have to sell the notion that, back then, he was far too legally and ethically compromised to remain on the bench, but now should be allowed to head the Intelligence Committee–where he’ll be privy to all sorts of things that many, many people would love to know, and would be more than willing to pay whatever it cost to gain access to said intelligence.

“Why, Nancy, do you think he’s suddenly immune to such temptation? He was willing to sell out the Constitution for a piddling 150K back then; you think he’s turned choirboy in interim? Prove it. Because if you can’t, the case can easily be made that you are pandering to the Congressional Black Caucus to gain political points and are willing to risk the nation’s security in the process.”

By: Gaius

Gaius — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:36:29 +0000

Yup, use an unsubstantiated media report to obscure the fact that Pelosi plans to install one of the very few people ever tried, convicted and removed from the Federal bench for official corruption in Harman’s place.

Arlo, really, your dumping of talking points is becoming tiresome.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:26:30 +0000

Feds Probe a top Democrat’s relationship with AIPAC (Jane Harman)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1549069,00.html

Obviously, its not just personal pique that Ms. Pelosi doesn’t want Harman for Chair of that committee.