McKinney/Pelosi No Longer Speaking
The Hill Is Reporting:
McKinney is distraction, say the Dems
By Josephine Hearn
The bizarre scuffle Wednesday between Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and an unnamed U.S. Capitol Police officer is winning the spirited congresswoman few new friends in her caucus. In fact, some Democrats are trying to distance themselves from her.
......................Cynthia Mckinney D-GA
McKinney has been aggressively publicizing the incident, calling press conferences on each of the past two business days and even attracting a mention on the front page of The New York Times, something that the dozens of House and Senate Democrats combined couldn’t match when they unveiled their homeland-security plan last week.
Now, with McKinney facing a possible arrest warrant, the media frenzy is set only to escalate. The U.S. Capitol Police referred the issue to the U.S. District Attorney’s office for prosecution yesterday.
All of the attention has some Democrats concerned that McKinney is drawing the limelight away from their failed policy goals and to focus on a momentary, violent, disputed encounter in a Capitol Hill hallway.
“There’s been a lot of eye-rolling,” said an aide to a moderate Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The national attention it’s been getting has been unfortunate. It’s becoming a distraction.”
A Democratic strategist concurred.
“This is the view of Democrats that we want to project in the tough races, some of our tools are victims and race-baiting,” the strategist said.
McKinney often elicits strong opinions, even within her own caucus. She has a history of making controversial statements that delight etremist groups while irking moderates, yet even some of the caucus’s more extreme members have had disagreements with her.
She and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)
no longer speak, not even to exchange greetings when encountering each other in the Capitol hallways, said two House Democratic sources. Pelosi "I know she is doing this because she has a film comming out". Pelosi twice turned down McKinney’s request to regain her seniority after she was defeated and then reelected in 2002 and 2004. McKinney first came to Congress in 1992.
McKinney spokesman Coz Carson said his boss is not a very effective member of Congress.
“She’s a loud mouth leader who lags behind instead of getting out in front of important issues,” he said. “She demonstrates extreme and irresponsible leadership for the people who elected her to office.”
McKinney raised some eyebrows when she attended hearings of the select committee on Hurricane Katrina even after Democratic leaders had decided that only three Democrats — Reps. Gene Taylor (Miss.), Bill Jefferson (La.) and Charlie Melancon (La.) — would participate.
At her news conference Friday, organizers originally expected to have members of Congress join McKinney in a show of support. None ultimately appeared, although Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) sent a statement saying that “the most responsible and useful course for all involved would be to seek possible censure a resolution that would be satisfactory to both parties.” Besides jail time.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) called the incident — in which McKinney allegedly struck the officer after he stopped her at a security checkpoint — “disgraceful” and “horrible.” McKinney has said the officer inappropriately touched her.
“I recognize that there are 435 members and I look like a staffer — sometimes an intern — and sometimes memory fails,” said McHenry, who is the youngest member of Congress. “And anyway, I don’t think it’s smart for any member to tussle with a Capitol Police officer. They’re well-trained.”
McHenry and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) plan to introduce a resolution today to show appreciation for the Capitol Police.
Other members were more willing to give McKinney the benefit of the doubt.
“It’s a question of fact and whether the officer put his hand on her first to be certain she even belonged there, or whether he asked her to stop first and asked for ID. The facts will determine who was in the right and who was in the wrong,” said Rep. Al Wynn (D-Md.). “I would be offended and upset if [an officer] put his hands on me prior to asking for ID. Even if I wasnt wearing any identification letting the Police Officer know who I was.”
“The notion that they would charge her isnt ludicrous, regardless of what happened. Everyone assaults an officer of the law at one time or another. It sounds like a misunderstanding. She clearly was intending to assault a police officer.”
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Oh Boy, you KNOW you have done something wrong when Nancy Pelosi isnt talking to you. Just throw her in jail! Assaulting a Police Officer IS a crime no matter what the Democrat's think.
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UPDATE:
Warrant Issued For McKinney's Arrest
Read Full Story Here
McKinney is distraction, say the Dems
By Josephine Hearn
The bizarre scuffle Wednesday between Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and an unnamed U.S. Capitol Police officer is winning the spirited congresswoman few new friends in her caucus. In fact, some Democrats are trying to distance themselves from her.
......................Cynthia Mckinney D-GA
McKinney has been aggressively publicizing the incident, calling press conferences on each of the past two business days and even attracting a mention on the front page of The New York Times, something that the dozens of House and Senate Democrats combined couldn’t match when they unveiled their homeland-security plan last week.
Now, with McKinney facing a possible arrest warrant, the media frenzy is set only to escalate. The U.S. Capitol Police referred the issue to the U.S. District Attorney’s office for prosecution yesterday.
All of the attention has some Democrats concerned that McKinney is drawing the limelight away from their failed policy goals and to focus on a momentary, violent, disputed encounter in a Capitol Hill hallway.
“There’s been a lot of eye-rolling,” said an aide to a moderate Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The national attention it’s been getting has been unfortunate. It’s becoming a distraction.”
A Democratic strategist concurred.
“This is the view of Democrats that we want to project in the tough races, some of our tools are victims and race-baiting,” the strategist said.
McKinney often elicits strong opinions, even within her own caucus. She has a history of making controversial statements that delight etremist groups while irking moderates, yet even some of the caucus’s more extreme members have had disagreements with her.
She and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)
no longer speak, not even to exchange greetings when encountering each other in the Capitol hallways, said two House Democratic sources. Pelosi "I know she is doing this because she has a film comming out". Pelosi twice turned down McKinney’s request to regain her seniority after she was defeated and then reelected in 2002 and 2004. McKinney first came to Congress in 1992.
McKinney spokesman Coz Carson said his boss is not a very effective member of Congress.
“She’s a loud mouth leader who lags behind instead of getting out in front of important issues,” he said. “She demonstrates extreme and irresponsible leadership for the people who elected her to office.”
McKinney raised some eyebrows when she attended hearings of the select committee on Hurricane Katrina even after Democratic leaders had decided that only three Democrats — Reps. Gene Taylor (Miss.), Bill Jefferson (La.) and Charlie Melancon (La.) — would participate.
At her news conference Friday, organizers originally expected to have members of Congress join McKinney in a show of support. None ultimately appeared, although Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) sent a statement saying that “the most responsible and useful course for all involved would be to seek possible censure a resolution that would be satisfactory to both parties.” Besides jail time.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) called the incident — in which McKinney allegedly struck the officer after he stopped her at a security checkpoint — “disgraceful” and “horrible.” McKinney has said the officer inappropriately touched her.
“I recognize that there are 435 members and I look like a staffer — sometimes an intern — and sometimes memory fails,” said McHenry, who is the youngest member of Congress. “And anyway, I don’t think it’s smart for any member to tussle with a Capitol Police officer. They’re well-trained.”
McHenry and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) plan to introduce a resolution today to show appreciation for the Capitol Police.
Other members were more willing to give McKinney the benefit of the doubt.
“It’s a question of fact and whether the officer put his hand on her first to be certain she even belonged there, or whether he asked her to stop first and asked for ID. The facts will determine who was in the right and who was in the wrong,” said Rep. Al Wynn (D-Md.). “I would be offended and upset if [an officer] put his hands on me prior to asking for ID. Even if I wasnt wearing any identification letting the Police Officer know who I was.”
“The notion that they would charge her isnt ludicrous, regardless of what happened. Everyone assaults an officer of the law at one time or another. It sounds like a misunderstanding. She clearly was intending to assault a police officer.”
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Oh Boy, you KNOW you have done something wrong when Nancy Pelosi isnt talking to you. Just throw her in jail! Assaulting a Police Officer IS a crime no matter what the Democrat's think.
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UPDATE:
Warrant Issued For McKinney's Arrest
Read Full Story Here
posted by Marie's Two Cents | 11:31 AM
8 Comments:
Yeah, after seeing the "Pretty In Pink" photo, I guess Cynthia McKinney could be mistaken for a member of the Congressional staff, or maybe an intern.
On my last trip to the U.S. Capitol, one of the things that impressed me was the number of expensively dressed, 50-year-old crack whores they had wandering around up there.
On my last trip to the U.S. Capitol, one of the things that impressed me was the number of expensively dressed, 50-year-old crack whores they had wandering around up there.
Hey! I saw Katherine Harris the last time I was in Washington DC, too!
You guys are kind of making me want to cross Washington off my list of "Places To Visit"! If I ever do go, I will make sure I just take some Pictures and get the heck out of there.
Pelosi is holding that paper upside down.
She sure is Dave, you dont miss much.
Marie, Over at my place I have made the case that McKinney's playing of the race card is an overt act of psychological terrorism, Check it out, and then tell me what you think.
I will Mark,
I wish I knew how to get that "Linked To" thing to operate, I guess I will have to do this the old fashioned way!
CP,
Yeah I caught what I guess to McKinney was an apology, that was the lamest apology I ever heard.
I wonder if her "sincere regret about the encounter with the Capitol Hill Police" had something to do with the fact that 21 African-American members of Congress asked her to back down from the fight so as not to interfere with the Democratic message that they say has been gaining traction of late.
I didnt know about the African American members of Congress, but interfere with what plan? lol That new Security plan that is really Bush's with a Democrat face on it that Nancy Pelosi held up-side-down?
BTW, did you hear the latest? While McKinney was on her way to offer her, ahem, apololgy, a private security guard in McKinney's entourage got into a shoving match with a reporter from WSB-TV in Atlanta. The security guard threatened to throw the reporter's "a-- in jail."
Yes I heard about that, he ought to go to jail too!
Yeah why is McKinney using Private Security on Capitol Grounds? She doesnt trust the Capitol Hill Police, but offers an apology? Why does she need bodyguards anyway?
With all the new stories about Hillary and Cynthia that have come to light in the last few weeks those 21 African-American members of Congress got one thing right - the Democratic message has been gaining traction of late - that message is that the Democrats are getting more outrageous with each passing day.
I Love the way you put things!
Oh they got one thing right all right they didnt have a message to begin with, they try to pass off thier version of a National Security bill that is really President Bush's, they have nothing, no plan, ne message, just attack our President. That's really going to win them elections. They are a bunch of Hypocrite Lunatics!
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