After meeting with House Speaker-elect Pelosi this afternoon, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., issued a statement confirming he will not serve as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "I have been informed by the speaker-elect that I will not serve as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 110th Congress," he said. "I am obviously disappointed with this decision." Hastings won election to Congress in 1992, after having been impeached and removed from office as a federal judge. He concluded his statement by saying, "Sorry, haters, God is not finished with me yet."
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This seems to be an odd thing for Judge Hastings to say, considering most Democrats and most of the liberal media were against him chairing the Intel committee.
This just illustrates more infighting and backstabbing within the Democrat Party. The Congressional Black Caucus already is pretty mad at Nancy Pelosi. They were pushing for Hastings pretty hard. This also seems like a hypocritical move by the Dems. If Hastings is ok to actually sit on the Intel committee, why can't he chair it?
God may not be finished with Hastings. But Pelosi threw him off the bus pretty fast.