… and knock some sense into her head about Alcee Hastings? I don’t know and I don’t care. I’m just glad we don’t have a demagogue as chair of the House Intell Committee. And speaking of demagogues… well, ideologues … I was watching Dick Morris discuss the potential Hastings nomination on Hannity & Colmes last night. (Yes, my Lord, I have sinned. I have watched Hannity & Colmes … and after telling my daughter not to watch so much television or she would get “mushy brain.” ) He made great sport of Colmes’ pathetic defense of the onetime Florida jurist who apparently let a lawyer friend languish in prison so he (Hastings) wouldn’t be sent up for corruption himself. The pundit then went on to eviscerate his own former friend, Bill Clinton, who, as one of his parting gestures in the Oval Office, pardoned this same lawyer who rescued Hastings. Morris – who is, as we know, er…. no saint himself – is so much more fun to listen to than either Hannity or Colmes you wonder why they don’t give him the show. I wouldn’t feel like such an idiot for watching.
Dick Morris is one of the smartest politicos in America. Always worth listening to. To bad he is such a weasel.
Morris is a sleazebag but one of the most astute observers of politics. God save such sleazebags.
Has Morris ever been right about anything? Except, of course, the not-so-brilliant strategy of triangulation.
Yes, watching Hannity and Colmes is definitely hard core. But cheer up. With a little bit of rationalization, you can chalk it up to “blog prep”. Me? I’ve resorted to a three-step program to ward off the streaming idiocy. The TV is placed where I can only see it full on when standing in front of the kitchen sink. I only stand in front of the kitchen sink when I’m washing dishes. I don’t wash dishes often.
Please don’t give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit. She merely looked at the polling data—and realized that the Democrats would be soundly rebuked by the general public. Alcee Hastings was just too hot to handle. Nonetheless, what was she thinking in the first place? This appointment was never going to fly. Pelosi has needlessly weakened her position as a top Democratic Party leader. Does the woman possess a suicidal death wish? How many times can Pelosi continue to act like someone slamming their auto against the side of the building at 100 miles per hour?
Do you really think that polling data has any effect here? How many people do you have to call to find three who know that the House HAS an intel committee? I think the key is how the press corp is reacting (including the blogosphere if she is listening).
“Do you really think that polling data has any effect here?”
Absolutely. The polling organizations can easily find enough responses to indicate the popularity of the Alcee Hasting’s nomination to the House’s Intel committe. And I strongly suspect that the results showed Hasting’s with no better than 30% support among the American people.
You are right to be somewhat cynical about the political knowledeg of the typical American. Still, you are pushing it a bit too far.
Pelosi has already screwed up big time and she is not even official yet. What did Harman to do her anyway?
Didn’t Hastings say something like “there a time for everything” in response to reporters?
Could that have been a threat, in the vein of a dish best served cold for not getting the chairmanship?
How would a member of the intelligence committee get his revenge?
What could anybody do to somebody that has survived a corruption trial and senate impeachment?
What did Foley do again?
For now, Hastings is playing the soviet spy to Nancy’s Putin. Stay tuned.
Dick Morris: the complete cynic. Exception:feet.