Ok, the Democrats won the election and I have no issue with this. With the winning of this election come certain perks. Leadership roles. Nancy Pelosi has been chosen as the leader of the house, and is now filling various leadership positions.
Now, wasn’t one of the things that the Democrats ran on was cleaning up Washington? Get the corrupt Republicans out of office? And yes, I agree there was too many corrupt Republicans. But, look at this lady’s choice to fill two major leadership positions:
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15026624/[/url]
[b]Majority leader: John Murtha of Pennsylvania[/b]
[i]Yet Murtha could prove to be a problematic candidate because of his penchant for trading votes for pork projects and his ties to the Abscam bribery sting in 1980, the only lawmaker involved who wasn?t charged.[/i] Ok, he wasn’t charged. Agreed. But….
[i]FBI agents pretending to represent an Arab sheik wanting to reside in the United States and seeking investment opportunities offered bribes to several lawmakers. [b]When offered $50,000, Murtha was recorded as saying, [u]?I?m not interested … at this point.?[/u][/b] A grand jury declined to indict Murtha, and the House ethics committee issued no findings against him[/i]
Sorry, not interested at this point does not give me a lot of confidence in his honesty.
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15741999/[/url]
Next choice Of Ms. Pelosi that I have issue with.
[b]Head the House Select Committee on Intelligence[/b]Rep. Alcee Hastings
[i]Hastings is also one of fewer than a dozen federal judges in U.S. history to be removed from office by the Senate in an impeachment trial. He was a federal judge appointed in 1979 by President Carter.
In 1989 the Democratic-majority House impeached him and the Democratic-majority Senate tried him on charges of conspiring to extract a bribe from two drug dealers in exchange for reducing their sentences. The Senate voted to remove him from the bench.[/i] The democrats themselves impeached and removed this person from office. FOR TAKING A FREAKEN BRIBE, and she wants this person to be the head of the inteligence committie?
Look, who cares what party would be making these choices. These are bad choices. They send completely the wrong message when Americans are fed up with corruption. And yes, the republicans caused this. But this lady is showing no, none, completely nada common sence in her choices.
By the way, I think the Republicans are doing the same stupid thing with their choice of Lott for minority leadership. His racist remarks speak volumes.
Dan
[b]Edited because{/b] I had the wrong replubican listed. It’s lott who they want, not Delay as I had previously posted.