Crazy Nancy's Idea Of Intelligence

If you wanted to pick out one incident at random to illustrate why Democrats are not trusted with the reins of national security and won't be for years at a minimum, you could hardly do much better than this:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings, who was impeached [and removed from the bench] as a federal judge [on two counts, perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice] in 1989, to be vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Time magazine's Joe Klein reported on Sunday. [emphasis added]

Why in the ever-loving world does the House bag lady want to kick out a so-called "moderate" like Jane Harman from the ranking spot and replace her with a liar and a crook? I'm guessing because she wants a House Intelligence Committee that "looks like America":

[Hastings, a] Florida Democrat an[d] African-American, blamed "institutional racism" for the charges lodged against him.

Ah. Of course. And how long would this individual last in this post before he was up on charges again, only ones a lot more serious than perjury and obstruction of justice?

Wouldn't matter to House Donks, though. As safe as Hastings' seat must be, they can always get another racist drone just like him.

Of course, by then there may not be very many safe Dem seats left in the lower chamber. But you'll never know that from their rhetoric or personnel choices, which they'll continue to believe have them "right around the corner" from taking the House back once and for all.

What was that old Carlin line? "Hire the mentally handicapped - but don't let them take your rectal temperature."

Or staff the House Intelligence Committee.