“All this talk about rules. When the deal goes down, we make ‘em up as we go along.”
Rep. Alcee Hastings was the sixth federal judge in American history to be impeached from office (bribery and perjury). The voters of FL-23 may have elected him afterward, but it was the Democratic party leadership that let him join the Rules Committee. And it’s the American electorate who gets to decide whether he can stay the Chair of its Legislative/Budget Process sub-committee.
So. Your call.
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Elections have consequences,
Viet71 (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 5:59PM EST (link)But only if the House and Senate function as designed under the Constitution.
I’m sorry, but electing an RINO is a waste of a vote.
Might as well vote for a DINO.
I’m with you Moe. But I want a war.
So do I.
avgjo (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 6:32PM EST (link)Let’s give it to ‘em. And let’s not wait until Nov. to do it.
Ceterum autem censeo, Obamaecuram esse delendam.
It’s the morality, stupid.
Whoops.
avgjo (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 6:33PM EST (link)Let me clarify. I mean by non-violent means.
Ceterum autem censeo, Obamaecuram esse delendam.
It’s the morality, stupid.
You are *not* with me, Viet71.
Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 7:03PM EST (link)No ‘RiNO’ voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House; and I do not have time for ‘Might as well vote for a DINO.’
Period. End sentence.
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chbroussard (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 9:46PM EST (link)We have to be realistic and focused. First and foremost, we have to get rid of the Democrats. Once that is done, then, and only then, we can move on and work to clean up the Republican Party.
So let’s focus on voting the Dems out in November. If we spread ourselves too thin and try to get rid of the all the RINOs too, we’re not going to succeed in ridding ourselves of the most egregous members of Congress. Mo is right. No RINOs voted for this health care bill. So let’s put our efforts and our money where we can get the most bang for the buck—voting the Dems out.
Are you saying Conservative-nouns can't chew gum and walk at the same time?
audax (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 1:07AM EST (link)Lets ge rid of both Dems and Rinos by FIRST nominating and electing Conservative-nouns in the GOP primary and then electing them come 2 November! YES WE CAN!!!!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
Like your spirit
texasgalt (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 10:32PM EST (link)But has Brown been a waste? What about the squishes from Maine? At this moment how important are they?
Would you trade Boxer for a RINO? I hope it doesn’t work out that way but I’d take another Collins type over “call me Senator” Boxer in a heartbeat.
Why settle for a Campbell when you can get a DeVore?
audax (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 1:03AM EST (link)Just saying…
Audeamus pro audere est facere
Devore would be best
texasgalt (Diary) Sunday, March 21st at 8:21PM EST (link)but even a Demon sheep is a lesser evil than Boxhead.
AND the DeVore costs the same! Only one vote:)
audax (Diary) Monday, March 22nd at 2:02AM EST (link).
Audeamus pro audere est facere
"It doesn't matter how many people demonstrate, it won't change a single vote"
Next93 (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 9:24PM EST (link)This is the same Alcee Hastings (Convict-FL) who said of the 9/12 demonstration in DC that it didn’t matter how many people came to DC or who they talked to, it wouldn’t change a single vote.
Seems to me that’s exactly the kind of attitude that triggered the FIRST American revolution.
Someone needs to remind this chuckle-head that the congress is NOT an aristocracy. Too bad they’ll probably have destroyed the country by the time we get them out of office.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
will we let them?
avgjo (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 9:32PM EST (link)If these people presume to be aristocrats, and we let them, then they are.
Ceterum autem censeo, Obamaecuram esse delendam.
It’s the morality, stupid.
Then Alcee Hastings is dumber than a box of rocks.
janis (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 9:33PM EST (link)If we hadn’t demonstrated and had had no Town Halls on Health Care, this basta*d of a bill would have been law by now. It’s solely due to the number of people who have turned out, called, emailed, written letters, and then did it all over again that has stalled this thing as long as it’s been stalled.
And if he thinks that it won’t change a single vote, then how come they’re having to twist arms clean off, bribe others and STILL don’t have the votes yet, hmm? What a miserable, corrupt and utterly disgraceful excuse for a legislator the man is!
Hasting is pretty slippery
Adjoran (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 10:31PM EST (link)He managed to avoid a commensurate prison sentence to taking bribes as a federal judge. When an all-black jury set him free, a light bulb went off in his head – “if these idiots will vote ‘not guilty’ just because I am their color, maybe I can fool them into electing me to something!”
The public can take away his subcommittee chairmanship by turning over the House to the Republicans, but they can’t keep him off of it.
The really sad part is that in the CBC, Hastings is about midway on ethics and corruption. Half of a major party caucus in the Congress of the United States has lower ethical standards than a bribe-taking judge!
A different set of founding fathers
doncorleone Sunday, March 21st at 10:44AM EST (link)This cadre of bolsheviks that are residing within the columns of power have a different set of founding fathers. Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Hitler,Mussolini, Marx/Ingels et al, their actions and writings are the basis of their mindset and governance. Their actions, before the elections and since, show me, they are following the same template that those same afforementioned individuals have followed. Elections ceased after they were in power. So, yes, elections do have consequences.