The Knuckleheads of the Day award

Today’s winners are House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. They get today’s award for their whining complaints over the FBI’s search of Congressman William Jefferson’s office.

WASHINGTON - The FBI’s weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped Constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said the Justice Department had never before crossed a line that separates Congress from the executive branch by searching a congressional office while investigating a member of Congress.

The search warrant was issued by a federal district judge in suburban Virginia, based on an affidavit from FBI investigators outlining some of the evidence that have accumulated in the case, including video tape of the congressman accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant, who agreed to have her conversations with the congressman taped.

Agents later found all but $10,000 of the cash — in marked bills — hidden in a freezer in one of the congressman’s homes, according to the affidavit.

“Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years,” Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said in a statement Monday.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said congressional independence from the executive branch protects Americans from abuses of power.

“Justice Department investigations must be conducted in accordance with Constitutional protections and historical precedent,” she said.

Rep. William Jefferson whose office was searched over the weekend in connection with allegations of bribery, told reporters that he would not resign.

Sorry Congress people, the constitution doesn’t protect you or your colleagues from breaking the law. You are citizens of this country like anyone else, and subject to its laws.(With a few well defined exceptions listed in the constitution) The FBI had a search warrant and were acting within the law.

So why are these two bitching? Because they’re afraid of more FBI searches? What are you afraid of? We all know Congress is squeaky clean.(Time for sarcastic humor) Why aren’t these two outraged at what Jefferson did instead? Tell me.

For acting like cry babies, Dennis Hastert and Nancy Pelosi are today’s Knuckleheads of the day.
Note- I won’t give Jefferson a knucklehead till an indictment is handed down or till he is arrested.

Betsy doesn't understand the fuss either.
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