PELOSI REJECTS HASTINGS FOR INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi is getting her act together by not making impeached federal judge Rep. Alcee Hastings the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Handing over a committee that deals with highly-sensitive information would have been a distraction to Pelosi's desire to clean up the House.
Republicans shouldn't get gleeful yet. They better worry Pelosi might corral these factions with a simple idea: Remember what it was like to be in the minority? The Democratic majority will be most vulnerable at its first re-election. By not rewarding an impeached federal judge Pelosi did the right thing which is also good politics with a public who's highly cynical towards all things Washington.
Congressional Republicans would be wise to put together some bold ideas to differentiate themselves from the Democrats. Being against anything and everything Democratic won't win back the Congress in 2008. Democrats got away with that tactic because of a stagnant situation in Iraq along with perceived federal incompetence (undeserved and deserved) along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast and in the halls of the capitol.