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Pelosi aims to block Democratic hawks from key posts
 Thank you for helping us win the election by pretending we're all something we're not. Now go away....Democratic Party sources said as House Speaker, Ms. Pelosi plans to block moves that would place hawks into important chairmanships. The sources said a key casualty would be Rep. Jane Harman, a six-term member of Congress who has cooperated with Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. "Nancy Pelosi wants total party discipline," a source in the Democratic Party leadership said. "If you played ball with the Republicans during this session, then you're not going to be given an important chair in the next session." I guess, when faced with the choice of getting a second term as speaker, or doing as much damage as possible during a single term, Nancy's gonna press the Big Red Button. As the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Ms. Harman was expected to become chairman of the powerful committee. But Ms. Pelosi is expected to pass over Ms. Harman for either Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida or Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, the second- and third-ranking Democrats on the intelligence panel. Why not just fedex the morning briefings to Zawahiri, and cut out the middleman? It'll be cheaper for everyone concerned, and we could always plant disinformation or something in them... ...The sources said the 61-year-old Ms. Harman, regarded as the best informed House Democrat on intelligence and technology issues, angered the liberal Ms. Pelosi by supporting the Bush administrations policies on defense issues, particularly the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act. They said Ms. Pelosi has rebuffed lobbyists in the pro-Israel community and defense industry that sought a chairmanship for Ms. Harman. So, my knowledge of the rules of Regress and the House being scant, the question that pops into my mind is... is there anything we can do about this? I'd appreciate comments from those democrats present here who said they just wanted a more competent prosecution of the war. Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-09 |
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