A MUSLIM On The Judiciary Committee??
Yep, none other than Keith Ellison has been named to the House Judiciary Committee. Via Powerline:
The powers-that-be in the House have named Minnesota Fifth District Representative Keith Ellison to the Judiciary Committee. Any number of items from Representative Ellison's past ought to have served to disqualify him from being named to the committee. His cavalier approach to compliance with the law - whether it be federal tax law, or Minnesota campaign finance law, or Minneapolis parking ordinances flouted so frequently that his driver's license has been suspended more times than he can recall - ought to have ruled him out. His past support for and/or friendship with such murderers, cop-killers and cop killer wannabes as Kathleen Soliah/Sara Jane Olson, Assata Shakur and Sharif Willis ought to have been a dealbreaker all by itself. But Ellison's interest in rolling back the laws that have proved crucial for the American government and the citizens of the United States in providing for the common defense in the war being waged against us was apparently sufficient to override the countervailing considerations.
Very few things leave me speechless...but this is coming very close. It's almost surreal, the things that are happening in our government right now.
JASmius adds: "Ellison's interest in rolling back the laws that have proved crucial for the American government and the citizens of the United States in providing for the common defense in the war being waged against us" is the whole point of why the Donks put him on Judiciary. It might even have made Crazy Nancy look bad were it not for the fact that the only media outlet of any kind anywhere to give Ellison's crypto-Islamism any significant degree of scrutiny was Powerline itself.
There's a bitter irony in the fact that Ellison will now be voting on whether or not to impeach the President and Vice President of the United States that are (or, rather, for) contining the fight against his brothers-in-arms overseas. In the mean time, the very spectre of "Muslims in Congress" - indeed, the nation's return to the Left two months ago - speaks, for all of Hugh Hewitt's dogged, tireless boosterism, to the insigificance of the blogosphere compared to the still-existing dominance of the "legacy media."
Not a truth we want to hear, no doubt. But then again we won't want to hear Ellison shouting "Allahu Akbar!" when the Conyers committee votes to impeach, either.
The powers-that-be in the House have named Minnesota Fifth District Representative Keith Ellison to the Judiciary Committee. Any number of items from Representative Ellison's past ought to have served to disqualify him from being named to the committee. His cavalier approach to compliance with the law - whether it be federal tax law, or Minnesota campaign finance law, or Minneapolis parking ordinances flouted so frequently that his driver's license has been suspended more times than he can recall - ought to have ruled him out. His past support for and/or friendship with such murderers, cop-killers and cop killer wannabes as Kathleen Soliah/Sara Jane Olson, Assata Shakur and Sharif Willis ought to have been a dealbreaker all by itself. But Ellison's interest in rolling back the laws that have proved crucial for the American government and the citizens of the United States in providing for the common defense in the war being waged against us was apparently sufficient to override the countervailing considerations.
Very few things leave me speechless...but this is coming very close. It's almost surreal, the things that are happening in our government right now.
JASmius adds: "Ellison's interest in rolling back the laws that have proved crucial for the American government and the citizens of the United States in providing for the common defense in the war being waged against us" is the whole point of why the Donks put him on Judiciary. It might even have made Crazy Nancy look bad were it not for the fact that the only media outlet of any kind anywhere to give Ellison's crypto-Islamism any significant degree of scrutiny was Powerline itself.
There's a bitter irony in the fact that Ellison will now be voting on whether or not to impeach the President and Vice President of the United States that are (or, rather, for) contining the fight against his brothers-in-arms overseas. In the mean time, the very spectre of "Muslims in Congress" - indeed, the nation's return to the Left two months ago - speaks, for all of Hugh Hewitt's dogged, tireless boosterism, to the insigificance of the blogosphere compared to the still-existing dominance of the "legacy media."
Not a truth we want to hear, no doubt. But then again we won't want to hear Ellison shouting "Allahu Akbar!" when the Conyers committee votes to impeach, either.
posted by Jennifer at 5:03 AM
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