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June 13, 2006
House of Horrors IV: Alcee Hastings
If the prospects of Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi as Speaker of the House, Charles Rangel as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and John "Moonbat Jack" Murtha as House Majority Leader don't scare a wet spot into your trousers, try this: Pelousy reportedly intends to place Alcee Hastings (D-FL) in the top Dem slot on the Intelligence Committee.
In this role, Hastings would be one of only several members of Congress statutorily designated to receive the most sensitive intelligence briefings regarding our country's most closely guarded secrets.
Why is this a problem? Because Hastings is a scoundrel and a crook. The Washington Times explains:
At the recommendation of a special investigative committee of the federal judiciary, which had concluded that Mr. Hastings, then a U.S. District Court judge, had lied and fabricated evidence to win an acquittal on bribery charges in 1983, the Democrat-controlled House voted 413 to 3 in 1988 to impeach him. Several of the 17 impeachment counts, reported Congressional Quarterly, "alleged that Hastings committed acts of perjury during his 1983 trial." Keeping in mind that Mr. Hastings would be told the most sensitive intelligence secrets, consider the fact that another impeachment count approved by the House "alleged that Hastings leaked information about a wiretap he was supervising and thereby forced a halt to an extensive federal undercover operation in the Miami area in 1985." In 1989, a Democratic-controlled Senate convicted Judge Hastings of accepting a $150,000 bribe in 1981 in exchange for a lenient sentence and committing numerous acts of perjury at his own trial. Once he was booted off the federal court, voters in southern Florida elected him to Congress, after which Mrs. Pelosi — the quintessential San Francisco Democrat — appointed him to the House Intelligence Committee.
Why would Stretch want to put this lowlife in such a position of trust? It may be because "Culture of Corruption" is her favorite phrase, but more likely it is a matter of sucking up to the Congressional Black Caucus, which is angry with her for trying to force out another corrupt black Representative, William Jefferson, before he's had his day in court.
Hastings does have one positive quality: he's hardly ever around.
If this is the leadership you want, by all means stay home when election day rolls around. Otherwise, make plans to get out and vote Republican.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 13, 2006 1:14 PM
Comments
Nothing but rotten fruit left on that democrat party tree.
Amazing...
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at June 13, 2006 4:51 PM
I see today in "The Hill" where Pelosi decided it's time to dump the whole "culture of corruption" crapola.
I guess when people think back to Hastings, and recall the more recent misdeeds, misstatements and mistakes of Reid, Patrick Kennedy, Cynthia McKinney, Francine Busby and William Jefferson it would be a good idea not to remind people what a bunch of lying, scheming, two faced (did I say lying?) crooks and booze hound, slap happy loons these people are.
Posted by: Mike's America at June 14, 2006 1:39 AM
