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Alcee Hastings: I’m An Innocent Victim of Politics
National Review Online ^ | November 28, 2007 | Byron York

Posted on 11/28/2006 6:41:22 AM PST by Quilla

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Hastings, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has to be the world's finest oxymoron.
1 posted on 11/28/2006 6:41:27 AM PST by Quilla
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And so was Nixon.


2 posted on 11/28/2006 6:42:42 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Long Island Pete

"I’m An Innocent Victim of Politics"



Aren't we all?


3 posted on 11/28/2006 6:46:39 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Quilla
That nitwit and others can't read, or Congresscritters are not to be trusted nor honored, and I should not be paying income taxes since a government salary is not profit.

Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.

4 posted on 11/28/2006 6:46:47 AM PST by AndrewC (Duckpond, LLD, JSD (all honorary))
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To: Quilla; pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; ...
“It is amazing how little importance is given to this fact,” Hastings writes. “It is also baffling.”

Well ... he's got some brass ones

OFF TOPIC .. the President is giving a great speak about the WOT .. but only FNC is airing it

5 posted on 11/28/2006 6:47:16 AM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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To: Quilla
ALCEE HASTINGS
IS

SHE MADE HIM A CHAIRMAN . . .
HE COST HER THE HOUSE!

6 posted on 11/28/2006 6:51:03 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Quilla

The bitch set him up :)


7 posted on 11/28/2006 6:52:01 AM PST by NeoCaveman (The Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity - WKRP)
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""Should impeachment in and of itself prevent me from being chair of a committee in Congress?” "

YES!!! (you friggin untrustworthy scumbag...)

8 posted on 11/28/2006 6:53:15 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Mo1

What! No live thread?


9 posted on 11/28/2006 6:56:05 AM PST by Quilla
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Geeze - the smallest wiff of Republican scandal sets the MSM into a frenzy and the pubs fleeing, but the rats can get away with the worst corruption.


10 posted on 11/28/2006 6:56:36 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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Even the NY Times disagrees with Hastings' claim of victimhood as evidenced by this October 1989 Editorial (couldn't get more of it without paying,but its intent is clear):

"Impeachments by the House and trials in the Senate are so cumbersome and distasteful that Alcee Hastings of Florida is only the sixth Federal judge to be removed in this manner. But in convicting and removing Judge Hastings, despite his acquittal of similar charges at a criminal trial, Congress acted responsibly, even judiciously....."

11 posted on 11/28/2006 6:57:31 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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I didn't see one .. but he was excellent!


12 posted on 11/28/2006 6:59:14 AM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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To: Quilla

And I am the Queen of England! LOL!!!


13 posted on 11/28/2006 7:00:18 AM PST by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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Darn it I missed it.....what did he say about Iraq?


14 posted on 11/28/2006 7:02:19 AM PST by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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LOL Looks like Pelosi will be the pivot man on this one! Hastings says he should be chairman because impeachments are political theatre, not real trials. Meanwhile all his compatriots are itching to start their investigations and impeachments. The very thing he says to justify his elevation to chairmanship makes a mockery of what's about to follow.


15 posted on 11/28/2006 7:02:26 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
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what did he say about Iraq?

Basically .. we aren't leaving and we will stick with them just like we did with Europe after WWII and throughout the cold war

16 posted on 11/28/2006 7:07:35 AM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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To: Quilla

Oooohh..innocent victim. I didn't see that coming. /sarcasm


17 posted on 11/28/2006 7:08:46 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Abathar

This guy is a crook and it is simply unbelievable that dumb-ass voters in Florida elected him to anything. What must that Congressional district look like?


18 posted on 11/28/2006 7:09:48 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: Quilla

Nyah!

I'm a victim of coicumstance!!!


19 posted on 11/28/2006 7:10:02 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!!)
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I have said it before and I'll say it again.

"Da bitch set me up!"


20 posted on 11/28/2006 7:10:26 AM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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