Alcee Hastings out

TPM Muckraker tells us that Alcee Hastings has withdrawn his name from contention for the chair of the House Intelligence Committee (more or less at the same time Nancy Pelosi said she would not name him chair).

Glenn Greenwald has already given us the skinny on why Jane Harmon is a terrible choice, given that she was more solidly for Bush than Bush himself.

So, let's hope Pelosi finds someone good to fill the role.