News You Were Afraid To ask About

Crypto-Stalinist Vladmir (Shoot’in) Putin has poisoned yet another opponent of his regime, this time a defecting spy who thought he was safe in England. And Putin rounded out the merry month of November by selling a Tor-M1 air defence rocket system to Iran. The system is designed to shoot down airplanes, helicopters and other airborne targets and will be useful to fascist Iran just in case Israel decides to take out a nuclear missile program that Iran’s kookoo president is developing to “wipe Israel off the map,” as he so felicitously put it.

Not to be outdone on the larger stage of human events, soon to be Madam Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has committed yet another boner. She wants Alcee Hastings to head up the Intelligence Committee in the House that Jefferson built. Problem is: Hastings was impeached by the House for bribe taking and other shady activity usually attributed by Democrats to Republicans. Byron York, in National Review, has the best short account of the former judge’s perfidies. None of our intrepid journalists in Connecticut has yet asked Reps. John Larson or Joe Courtney whether they would vote in favor of Pelosi’s choice. Both of the incorruptible Reps are on record as having favored Pelosi’s previous disastrous nomination of Jack Murtha as Majority Leader.

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Anonymous said…

Those Dems who are speaking out in defense of Hastings are using as their reason that Hastings was not convicted in a court of law. However, the fact that many lawmakers found his actions serious enough to take him off the bench should be a clue as to what we might expect should he take the important post of the head of the House Intelligence Committee. To admit this, however, would be to admit that Nancy's promise of an ethical Congress is a hollow one.

2:36 PM

Don Pesci said…

Right Pam. It might be interesting to trace down some of the votes. Only 4 of the incorruptibles voted against impeachment.

8:08 PM

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