Flashback: 'Why is Pelosi so tough on Harman?' asked Chris Matthews

[BuyingThyme]

I just stumbled upon this Raw Story item on Pelosi and Harman from 2006 and have to post it because I'm still pissed to high hell. I'm sure it's been re-re-posted already, but, like I said...

'Why is Pelosi so tough on Harman?' asked Chris Matthews

Ron Brynaert
Published: Monday November 13, 2006


On Sunday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked why the first woman slated to become Speaker was "so tough" on the House intelligence committee's ranking Democrat, who would normally be in line for a leadership position.

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has already endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) for majority leader, which places the Speaker-to-be in the middle of "a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer," the Washington Post reports.

"Pelosi has also all but decided she will not name the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) to chair that panel next year, a decision pregnant with personal animus," Jonathan Weisman writes for the Post.

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"Pelosi has nursed a well-publicized grudge against her fellow California Democrat because she believes Harman has not been a tough enough critic of President Bush on security matters, while using her ties to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee to lobby for the chairmanship," Shailagh Murray and Juliet Eilperin reported for the Post last week.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Why_Pelosi_so_tough_on_Harman_1113.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802572.html


It's all in the timing, Nancy.