Pelosi's Next Big Call

[raysr]

"The incoming House Speaker already made a questionable move backing the losing candidate in the race for Majority Leader. Will she stumble again by choosing a member with a checkered past to lead the House Intelligence Committee?"

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1562293,00.html

This stuff with Pelosi is starting to look real bad.

[Ninja Jordan]

1. PLEASE do not appoint Hastings. Dems need to put ethics up front

Don't appoint an impeached federal judge as head of House intel. PLEASE.

[femmocrat]

3. I agree. The right-wing media would have a field day with

a Hastings appointment. Look what they tried to dredge up on Murtha! Isn't Harmon being investigated for something, too? I think that compromise (Hispanic) candidate sounds like a good solution. Sorry I can't remember his name right now.

[Ninja Jordan]

5. Sylvestre Reyes

I think that's his name; and yes, I'd want him over Harmon and Hastings. Skinner should start a petition drive and call Pelosi's office over this. We do not need a Hastings appointment.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. I agree about Hastings.

I just wonder why the media is echoing this thing about how we NEED to keep Harman.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. No, Jane Harman is not being investigaved for anything

[Nite Owl]

14. I've heard Rush Holt(NJ) being mentioned too

he would be good, he was in military intelligence so he has the clearance.

[Nite Owl]

15. It isn't so much the impeachment

Clinton was impeached too but both were not guilty. He has a lot of debt, around a million dollars, that it would seem would be the security risk more than having been impeached which is political.

[Ninja Jordan]

17. It's the perception of being unethical

Perception counts.

[lvx35]

2. delete...

misread part of story.

[brettdale]

4. For fuck sake

What is the media's problem with Pelosi?

[raysr]

6. They sure have

a magnifying glass on her all right. It's because she's a "she".

[Kagemusha]

7. I have to disagree.

I've supported Democrats for long enough to know that the (D) at the end of the name matters a lot more in terms of media bias than the gender of the person. I can't possibly imagine a male Democratic Speaker of the House NOT being looked at with a magnifying glass. It is absolutely inconcievable to me that it could be any other way.

A Speaker can act above the fray if he or she so chooses. Pelosi didn't, unlike men like, for instance, Hastert. There's no reason to expect her to be treated with kid gloves.

(Edited for subject line volume.)

[brettdale]

8. Its just over the top even for the MSM

They are really attacking her.

[Kagemusha]

9. She's earned the right to be attacked like a man.

Let her take it and move on. She's the one who asked for this, and she's the one who attracted extra attention for backing the losing horse in the majority leader race, which she did not have to do.

[A Simple Game]

16. I have a feeling that she would have attracted attention if she

had backed the winning horse.

[elocs]

11. What is the problem with some here with Pelosi

other than she is denying them the candy they want so badly and want now?

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Yeah, well, I'm wondering why the M$M has such a universal hard-on to keep a Hawk like Harman

in such a, quote, "sensitive post".

Methinks they doth protest WAY too fucking much. We need to get some action on these illegal wiretaps, and if Harman won't do it, we need someone who will.