Letter to the TPM

[Sent today]

Dear Dr. Josh,

Why is the whole Alcee Hastings thing even happening? Even if the GOP is denying it, the election was about corruption. Even Iraq was about corruption (or at least high level lies about human lives). Didn't Pelosi get that memo? Your whole muckraking enterprise was based on the fact that neither Congress nor the Press was providing oversight for the immense malfeasance being done in our name, with our lives and our money.

So how in God's name did Pelosi support someone implicated with ABSCAM? And ultimately who cares whether Alcee was unfairly prosecuted and impeached by congress - he was IMPEACHED. C'mon! If they want to throw Alcee a bone then re-try him, as colleagues, to get the impeachment reversed. We won the election but Pelosi seems determined to undermine that with these absurd decisions.

Pelosi reminds me of Ehud Olmert - both are superb legislative survivors. Pelosi gets credit for winning back the house (I can't imagine Gephardt doing as well as she did). Olmert seems to have nine lives in the Knesset. Great talents. But neither are good governors .

Who has influence over her? Who can we call to stop this crazy thing?

Happy Thanksgiving,
[The Styx]