Don’t Investigate Pelosi — Debate Her

National Review Online ^ | April 9, 2007 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[NutCrackerBoy]

Speaker Pelosi should, of course, be rebuked for offending a bedrock separation-of-powers principle. But for the administration, the politics of her trip couldn’t be better. The Syrian regime is in the midst of executing a murderous coup to keep its hooks in Lebanon while abetting the terrorists who kill Americans and Israelis. The Speaker’s ham-handed diplomatic foray is proof positive of the folly of negotiating with such thugs. In addition, as Pelosi spoke preposterously of the Assad regime’s openness to peace, and had to be corrected on the international stage after misrepresenting Israel’s position, she confirmed the perception of many Americans that the Left is not up to the task of safeguarding our national security. -Andrew C. McCarthy

Excellent piece.

[Redbob]

So: she breaks the law buit we give her a pass because, well, we’re Republicans and we’re NICE, and we want people to like us, and....

BULLSHIT!

[smoothsailing]

Good read. I saw this at the American Spectator:

Pardon Pelosi!

[airborne]

She needs to be removed from office.

[italianquaker]

indict peloopsi, what would they do, jusk ask scooter, rush, delay

[perfect stranger]

She went there to tell the IslamoNazis to wait a few more years until the US has another Democrat President, then they could continue negotiations.

[Txsleuth]

I am a big fan of Andrew McCarthy..and as “right” as he may be on this...

Why is is that Prs. Bush has to “let the people decide”...and go high-minded and not go after Pelosi legally??

All the Libs/Dems/MSM have tried to do for 6 years is find some legal and not so legal loophole to get Bush out of the White House...now, you have not one, but several US Representatives breaking the LAW...

Not jay-walking...or not paying the income tax...they are messing with foreign policy during the time of WAR..

and Andrew McCarthy wants Bush to use it as an “example”????

PUH-Leeeeeeeeze

It sure as heck won’t stop the DEMS from trying to impeach Bush..and and find Rove and Gonzo and Cheney guilty of anything it takes to get them out of the Bush Admin.

just damn

[GLH3IL]

I agree with McCarthy. If she is criminally investigated, indicted, and charged with a violation of the Logan Act, she will play the strings of victimization to the fullest degree. Why she would conjer up the vison of herself becoming a moder day Joan of Arc. We all know that would be laughable, but the driveby media would certainly aid her in the spin, and give Pelosi all the smoke screen she would need to obsure the debate about her behavior. Instead, use her blunders to hammer home the whole confirmed political theory that the Dimocrats can NOT be allowed to have access to the executive powers of the Presidency. We can correctly point out that utter failures of the Clinton years and the obvious failure of the Dimocrats to have learned even one thing from the fiasco of the Clintons.

Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, Gore, Durbin, Kennedy, and all the other Dims that hold high esteem within the Dimocratic Party are NOT strengths to ensure their success. If we can take the debate TO them and hammer them with their own ineptitude we can clearly use the Dimocratic leadership as a massive wrecking ball to demolish the 2008 hopes of their party. President Bush is the leader of the Republican Party and MUST set a “new tone” that clearly shines a clear and brilliant light on the failure that WILL come with Dimocratic leadership. If he is unwilling on unable to do so, then the conservative leadership of the Republican Party MUST break free of their party loyalty and engage their own political version of “shock and awe” to defeat the possibility of the Dims ruining our great naiton.

[Txsleuth]

PING

[the anti-liberal]

"Speaker Pelosi should, of course, be rebuked for offending a bedrock separation-of-powers principle."

Number one, how does he suggest we "rebuke" her - say 'bad girl, no-no, now promise not to do it again or we'll say 'bad girl, no-no' again'?

Number two, why not do both - make her into an example of how not to be a House Speaker, and prosecute her for violation of the Logan Act, among other things?

[TheConservator]

But is this really a law-enforcement issue? Federal statutory and regulatory books now burst into the thousands upon thousands of pages. Must the fact that a statute is inevitably implicated always mean we should delegate our political and national security issues — our policy disputes — to the federal courts for resolution?

In a perfect world, no. But in the real world, the Democrats are going to keep doing this to the Republicans until the Republicans make the Democrats taste their own blood.

Reagan had it right: Peace through strength. Here, the Dems will perceive the aggressive pursuit of criminal charges as strength, and the course of action recommended by the author as weakness--which will only incite the Democrats further.

[muawiyah]

Remarkably few people have ever been prosecuted under the Logan Act.

Nancy isn't even subject to it unless you think the phrase "authority of the United States" belongs only to one branch of government.

The drafters of the legislation drew it up quite artfully. They surrounded it with a lot of external "we'll bag those suckers" rhetoric in the propaganda pieces they had their friends in the press print for them, and then cleverly provided exceptions in the text that would make sure it never applied to any of them.

The "don't tattle on the agents" act that was supposedly violated when it was noted Valerie Plame was also Mrs. Wilson, is almost equally artful. It sounds like a really nasty law, and makes a lot of threats, but when you get right down to it the only guy it applied to was Aldrich Ames, and he was safely out of the country!

[RichInOC]

But is this really a law-enforcement issue?

Once she broke the law, it became one.

Open a file, please.

[advertising guy]

double triple bullshit.......I’m some pissed over this

[Txsleuth]

Andrew McCarthy was a Federal Prosecutor...so when he says she has broken the law under the Logan Act...I tend to believe him.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[Malsua]

All of this is stupid noise that will go NO WHERE.

I’d love to see Pelosi get her deserved judgement under Logan. She won’t. Stop Fantasizing that she will.

Bush could have cut her off at the pass had he not been asleep at the wheel. He could have simply held a 5 minute press conference and said the following “Speaker Pelosi may have some issues worthy of dealing with with the USA, but she isn’t speaking for the US or Isreal at this time. No state should consider her words as those of the United States Government.

[rdb3]

Nope. Pelosi and Hoyer staged an attempted coup d'etat on the world stage, and this should be dealt with as such.

I'm no engaging in hyperbole, either.

[Snoopers-868th]

If we can take the debate TO them and hammer them with their own ineptitude

But it seems only if we take the debate to them on MSM since some are not willing to debate on Fox. Yea, right! We lose no matter what we do. Guess it might as well be quietly.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“She needs to be removed from office.”

Perhaps some paperazzi could start chasing her through tunnels and such?