Posted on 03/03/2010 9:21:00 AM PST by Justaham
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has picked liberal firebrand Rep. Pete Stark to replace ousted Chairman Charles Rangel on the tax-writing committee, according to a House leadership aide.
The decision was made during a Wednesday morning leadership meeting following Rangel's announcement that he would temporarily step aside as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, the aide said.
Rangel announced earlier Wednesday morning that he is taking a leave of absence pending the results of an ethics investigations.
In Stark, Pelosi is picking a fellow Californian to head one of the House's most powerful committees. Stark becomes the sixth House Democratic chairman from the Golden State.
Stark is next in line for the post in seniority, but his maverick personality had led some to question whether he would get the gavel even on a temporary basis. Stark has made many controversial comments over the years, and when Republicans controlled the House, Stark challenged then Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) to a fight during a Ways and Means Committee hearing.
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“firebrand” usually means “nutcase”, cf. Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Al Sharpton, et al.
Wednesday morning leadership meeting
1.how do we hide this bribe thingy
2.we just wait it out it will blow over in a week
3.our friends in the media will bens the facts for us
4.this puppy is in high spin mode
5.
Republicans should fight to support Rangel. Stark is worse.
Better a corrupt pol we know we can influence than a loony Communist we know we can’t.
Pete Stark, atheist:
“[I am a] Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being. I look forward to working with the Secular Coalition to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in science, marriage contracts, the military and the provision of social service.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/14/MNG7BOKV111.DTL
JC Watts should have beat the tar out of him. Scott McGuinnis too.
Oh, dear. They didn’t have a non-idiot available?
Who do you want? Alcee Hastings?
Strictly speaking, that makes no sense.
Stark is stark raving mad. This will surely go well.
In other words, he’s one of those UINOs—Unitarians in Name Only.
“I believe in one . . . nothing.”
LOL!
Nailed him!
He is highly temperamental and injudicious with language, often resorting to epithets and personal slurs in place of argumentation. In 2007, he accused President Bush of sending soldiers "to Iraq to get their heads blown off for (his own) amusement.”
Stark is also a member of the Progressive Caucus and an atheist. In other words: he's a perfect modern Democrat.
If you’re looking to advance one of the looniest suckers in the Hou$e,,
Nancy done real good with that pick.
[I am a] Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being.
Strictly speaking, that makes no sense.
Expecting reason from the unreasonable is a futile pursuit. Stand back and await the obvious implosion. When nuts run things, its merely a matter of time until the squirrels of cosmic justice find them. So it is said, so shall it be done.
Who is more psychotic? Stark or Pelosi??
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