Posted on 07/31/2005 11:26:38 AM PDT by wagglebee
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge in 1989, to be vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Time magazine's Joe Klein reported on Sunday.
"There's an ugly fight brewing in the House among Democrats about the House Intelligence Committee, which may have larger implications about the Democrats and national security," Klein told NBC's "Chris Matthews Show." "Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, wants to dump Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat who is a moderate, and replace her with Alcee Hastings," Klein said.
Appointed to the bench by President Carter in 1979, Hastings was impeached and removed from office in 1989 on two counts, perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The Florida Democrat, an African-American, blamed "institutional racism" for the charges lodged against him.
Hastings was elected to the House in 1992.
The Florida Democrat, an African-American, blamed "institutional racism" for the charges lodged against him.
This is so typical of the left.
LMAO ,,, Good ol' Nancy 2PAC Pelosi... she's a cutup..
With an IQ that doesn't reach room temperature, Alcee is an excellent choice to serve on the Intelligence Committee.
Nancy's IQ is right up there with Alcee's.
Any Democrat having any power at all concerning our nation's security scares the beejeesus out of me. The fact that a nitwit like Nancy Pelosi can name someone like Alcee Hastings to a prominent post shows how far down the slope we've slid as a country. Bad news...actually worse than bad. Incompetents choosing worse incompetents.
Why mess up the works with details! ;-)
She looks like the "Runaway Bride".
As a US District Judge in Florida, he took bribes from the attorney for two major drug dealers, paid by their lawyer, to give them light sentences. How do we know this? The lawyer who paid the bribes, William Borders, who was also a Past President of the D.C. Bar Association, was convicted of the crime of paying the bribes. He was, of course, disbarred and jailed.
How was it that the man who paid the bribe was convicted, but the judge who received the bribe beat the rap? Anyone who's ever seen Alcee Hastings do his shucking and jiving know the answer. He screamed racism, and he bobbed and weaved. And Alcee beat the rap.
He was then impeached by the House, and convicted and removed from office by the Senate, for being a corrupt and lying judge. The Senate could have also barred him from ever holding any future public office. They didn't because Hastings screamed racism again (because an elderly white judge, the last one impeached, had not been barred from future federal office).
Then, to stick his finger in whitey's eye, Hastings ran for Congress and shucked and jived his way into that position. Now, Pelosi wants to make him the Ranking Member on the Intelligence Committee? To put someone who has previously taken bribes in a position of authority into another position where some folks would pay big money for what he might know and be willing to sell? Did I get that right?
BTW, given his background as an impeached federal judge, the proper way to address correspondence to him this way:
The formerly-Honorable, Honorable Alcee Hastings.
Just trying to correct the record and be of service.
Congressman Billybob
Being an impeached federal judge is a resume enhancement for the Dems, but for Pelosi the downside is that it makes him overqualified for the Ethics Committee.
So you see the Intelligence Committee makes total sense.
All I can say is: "If she for it, I am against it".
Lord help us.
LOL...this is a joke, right?
that's about it. :) A loser backing a loser.
From the party of Truman to this in just one generation. Amazing.
You do realize that if the Donks take back the House of Representatives in 2006, that Nancy Pelosi will be two heartbeats away from the Presidency.
down there?
I knew Alcee a wee bit in my Miami daze.
Alcee is a damned friendly fellow but the questions in his past are not without any merit.
He was also stupid to defend Yaweh Ben Yaweh....arguably one of the most prolific of any white hating racist killers ever.
bet most PC freepers don't even know who Yaweh was but they can sure tell you who Roy Killen was in a heartbeat...
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