Rep. Melvin Watt

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003049686_watch09.html

Nancy Pelosi

http://washington.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/02/19/daily9.html

Not exactly blowing my skirt up. Watt asks a question and Pelosi in the last round puts him in a minor committee post. Can you even have a representative who isn't on at least one committee?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003049686_watch09.html

Nancy Pelosi

http://washington.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/02/19/daily9.html

Sen. Larry Craig's motion to withdraw his guilty plea has been denied. Here's Judge Charles A. Porter's 27-page order, along with the Metropolitan Airport Commission's one-page press release. I'll have more analysis after reviewing the order. ----...

After his re-election in 2006, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to reappoint Jefferson to the House Ways & Means Committee membership that had been stripped from him in the previous session, but she then proposed to appoint him to the Homeland Security and House Small Business Committees. The Homeland Security appointment was withdrawn in the face of a Republican-threatened floor fight, and Jefferson later resigned from the Small Business Committee seat, too. While these were not acts of full-fledged support by Speaker Pelosi on behalf of the Democratic Party generally, they nevertheless undeniably continued to empower and enable Jefferson.

Among the significant differences between Jefferson and Craig, of course, are that Craig's crime was a simple misdemeanor unrelated to his congressional office, whereas Jefferson's is a felony directly related to his alleged abuse of his office.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have made so much moves with “Cold Cash” Jefferson, and continue to defend him.

Yes Bit, let's have some names of the Jefferson defenders. Or is this another "cut and run" posting?

As for your Clinton gambit, I see the obsession goes on. What happens if Hillary gets elected, does your head just explode?

(cut to "Scanners" outtake)

However, I think both Republicans and the Democrats are pursuing the issue prudently.

The crime to which Craig plead guilty--disorderly conduct--is pretty minor. The fact that it was not related to his Senate duties provides little grounds for expelling him from the Senate.

More pertinently, the Ethics Committee should be pursuing an investigation of the potentially fraudulent activities of Ted Stevens. There is ample evidence to suggest that this guy was selling votes and influence for monetary gain. That is clearly in the purview of the ethics committee.

The business surrounding Craig is a sad sideshow with no impact on actual public policy.

False. Have they moved to expel him from the Senate?

Had you forgotten they're not in power?

They're scared stiff of an ethics probe. He on the other hand is quite excited by the idea.

Craig, scared "stiff" by a "probe"??? Heavens no!!!

The Democrats, on the other hand, have made so much moves with “Cold Cash” Jefferson, and continue to defend him.

Names please, who is defending Jefferson and how? I can name at least one GOP senator defending Craig, Sen. Hatch. Name a Democrat defending Jefferson.

Even though he pledged back at the end of August that he would resign from the Senate, effective 9/30, and in spite of a judge’s ruling yesterday that Craig will not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of disorderly conduct, the ...