Posted by
Daniel Miller on Friday, November 17, 2006 5:00:22 PM
Nancy lost her 1st big battle this week when Congressional
democrats selected, by a wide majority, Steny Hoyer to be House Majority Leader over Ms. Pelosi's supported candidate, John Murtha. To suffer a defeat this big on her first day as Speaker is unfathomable, as the New York Times discusses
here.
One of the next items on her agenda is to conduct a vote to select the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Most
democrats support
Jane Harmon, however Ms Pelosi has targeted and supports
Alcee Hastings for the post. The NYT discusses the issues surrounding
this debate here. Apparently Nancy has issues with Ms. Harmon as she does with Mr. Hoyer. Does she do anything not politically or personally motivated?
No one knows for sure how the House
democrats will vote, but from here it looks like Ms Pelosi will be 0 for 2, unless she comes to her senses and supports Ms. Harmon or a compromise candidate.. Even
democrats cannot support Mr. Hastings, who was impeached and removed by the Senate from a federal judgeship in 1989 on a bribery charge, can they.......?
Hopefully, when Ms. Pelosi tires of her headache, she will stop hitting her head with the gavel...