I'm no engaging in hyperbole, either.
Excellent piece.
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!
She needs to be removed from office.
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
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.
PING
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?
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.
Once she broke the law, it became one.
Open a file, please.
bttt
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.
I'm no engaging in hyperbole, either.
But, Bush is a Republician, and she is a Democrat, Therefore she has the BALLS, And he doesn’t.
Enough said! Maybe, some time way in the future, as a nuc is lighting off, a pubbie will be able to confront at RAT, and slap him across the face, and say, “I told you so”!
I can hope, I can wish!
BUMP
Hear, hear Mr. President, how about stepping down from your high horse and handle the recalcitrant Congress overstepping their boundaries of separations of powers!
Mr.President, I voted twice for your election thinking, you will do the people's will, but as it is right now, it looks like you will cater once again for the sake of general appeasement to the Democrat controlled Congress and Senate!
How disappointing, Mr. President, how disapointing, I am speechless that you can not find a backbone to stand up to the likes of Pelosi, Reid and such and put them were they belong!
How sad, indeed How sad...
Treason is treason. Bush has completely lost control of the Justice Department and the rule of law in this country.
Without the rule of law, our country will continue to go down the tubes.
I agree, Pelosi is an awkward place to start. He should have started years ago, with the series of treasonous leaks of top secret information, for instance. Or what about the vandalization of the White House when clinton’s goons left?
The result of this is that we have one law for Democrats and another law for everyone else. Not a good situation.
Arrest her. Two felony counts. Title 18 Chapter 45 Section 953 and 954. Never happen, but it would make for riveting political theater:
As the Speakers jet is returning to the United States, the President schedules an unannounced address to the nation. Pelosi’s jet arrives in Washington D.C. to an awaiting throng of media cameras. She emerges from the boarding ramp ready to give her statement. Before she reaches the podium she is confronted by a large group of waiting federal marshals, who serve her with an arrest warrant citing her violation of the Logan Act and order her to accompany them. In front of the clicking cameras she attempts to claim congressional immunity. The marshals remind her that Congress is in adjournment and therefore she is not immune from arrest, but more importantly, under Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution the immunity does not extend to “Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace” and because she violated the Logan Act she has committed a felony. They then inform her that in deference to her position that she will not be placed in handcuffs, unless she resists arrest. She looks to her aides for help. The marshals politely inform them that anyone attempting to stop them in their official duties will be placed under arrest as well. No help is forthcoming for now totally befuddled Speaker. She is read her rights and she is led away, doing the prep walk in front of the world. At that moment, President Bush addresses the nation,”
“My fellow Americans, it is with a heavy and sad heart that I have come before you today to announce that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has been arrested by federal marshals under my orders for her violation of the Logan Act. This Act is one our nation’s oldest laws and goes to the very heart of our Constitutional system. Under our Constitution the Executive branch, not the Legislative branch, has the sole responsibility for foreign policy. The Logan Act was specifically enacted to prevent public officials and private citizens for speaking for the United States when they had no authority to do so. It was enacted so that our nation speaks with one voice to friend and foe alike.
Enacted in 1799, this act was amended by Congress in 1994. Speaker Pelosi was a member of that Congress and is well aware of the Logan Act’s provisions. Despite this Speaker Pelosi, against the advice and wishes of this Administration, chose to engage in talks with the leader of Syria and made statements and promises that she was acting as a representative of the United States. She did so in clear violation of both the Logan Act and the United States Constitution. She even went so far as to misrepresent the position of Israel, forcing the Prime Minister of that country to insist that the Speaker was not authorized to negotiate on their behalf. For too long members of Congress and the Senate have believed that they should be allowed to meet with foreign leaders and make statements and promises that go against the interests of the United States, in clear violation of the Logan Act. Under my clear Constitutional authority to enforce the laws of the United States I have decided to arrest Speaker Pelosi under Title 18 Chapter 45 Sections 953 and 954 of the US Code. I have named Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Prosecutor for this case. Speaker Pelosi will be accorded the same treatment as any United States citizen under arrest for suspicion of a felony crime and will have the right to bail so that she may resume her Congressional duties while this matter is under investigation. This arrest is to remind members of Congress and Senate that they are subject to the laws enacted by Congress, and that as President I will faithful enforce them. Thank you, and God bless.”
Of course, the Democrats would instantly start impeachment proceedings as soon as Pelosi was released on bail, but what fun we would all have
Investigate and debate. The throw her in the slammer, and destroy her publicly.
The democrats would sure be attacking any republican who did what she did.