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Democrats Playing With Fire
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 03, 2007 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 04/03/2007 6:17:14 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy."

Democrats can have any foreign policy they want -- if and when they are elected to the White House.

Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and -- like him or not -- he alone had the Constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime.

All that Pelosi's trip can accomplish is to advertise American disunity to a terrorist-sponsoring nation in the Middle East while we are in a war there. That in turn can only embolden the Syrians to exploit the lack of unified resolve in Washington by stepping up their efforts to destabilize Iraq and the Middle East in general.

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Pray for President George W. Bush, and our Troops!
1 posted on 04/03/2007 6:17:14 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
We used to call people like this traitors...
2 posted on 04/03/2007 6:18:49 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Lantos should be ashamed.


3 posted on 04/03/2007 6:19:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: 2banana

“We used to call people like this traitors...”

Now we call them Speaker of the House, third in line to the presidency.


4 posted on 04/03/2007 6:21:02 AM PDT by longhorn too
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To: AmericanMade1776

Pelosi is acting as if she were Prime Minister. Bush should have her arrested. That would result in a true constitutional crisis. Would be interesting to watch.


5 posted on 04/03/2007 6:22:17 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: AmericanMade1776
So the Democrats are irresponsible??? What do you expect when the '60s counter-culture hippies seize control of the U.S. government???

Remember when a former President did not criticize a sitting President? Especially on foreign soil? That was a convention. If the counter-culture movement was anything it was an attack on conventions.

6 posted on 04/03/2007 6:24:11 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Left is America's Ephialtes.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time..

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This is the only President that the Loons recognize. They understand nothing! They BELIEVE that Bush was coronated not elected. Nancy and Harry could only suppress their true intent until November 8, 2006.

7 posted on 04/03/2007 6:25:54 AM PDT by bikerMD (Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may be a muzzle flash.)
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To: Savage Beast

From the same article:
During the Second World War, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Wilkie, even acted as President Roosevelt’s personal envoy to British Prime Minister Churchill.

He understood that we were all in this together, however we might disagree among ourselves about the best course to follow.

Today, Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats are stepping in to carry out their own foreign policy and even their own military policy on troop deployment — all the while denying that they are intruding on the president’s authority.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/democrats_playing_with_fire.html


8 posted on 04/03/2007 6:27:27 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

This is just like Kennedy in Germany before WWII.


9 posted on 04/03/2007 6:29:10 AM PDT by colonialhk (Power and Money,the new mantra of the left!)
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To: bikerMD

I don’t believe that the Democrats like Pelosi believe that President Bush was coronated, I believe they want their sheeple to believe the lie and keep up a pretense of respectiblity. The thing about Pelosi, is she is not that bright.


10 posted on 04/03/2007 6:29:34 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
Conservatives are all running around saying the dems are being irresponsible, playing with fire, etc.

I think reality is unless President Bush gets out and fights, the war is over. They will eventually refuse to fund it, and in 08 there are many more GOP senate seats up. Unless Bush rallies some support, the dems will go further and further left.

In 1972 the dems nominated McGovern and it was a disaster. Because Nixon and his supporters were willing to call McGovern a radical kook.

Today, the dem candidates are ALL McGoverns, and the republicans say "You are a patriot, I respect your opinion".

11 posted on 04/03/2007 6:33:49 AM PDT by Williams
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To: AmericanMade1776
Pelosi heads the Neo-Copperhead Party
12 posted on 04/03/2007 6:39:34 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: AmericanMade1776

You know, I could have sworn there was a law against private citizens negotiating policy with foreign governments on behalf of the American people. Guess I was mistaken.


13 posted on 04/03/2007 6:43:46 AM PDT by vikingd00d
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To: Williams
President G.W. Bush , has a "hard row to hoe", and he does it without complaining. I believe it serves no purpose to President Bush to be other than civil with the idiotic liberal democrats, and I do believe he is fighting harder than any of the rest of us.

Prayer brought President Bush to the Oval Office, it was divine intervention that saved us from an Al Gore Presidency, it is time to step up the prayers for our Country, for our leadership, and for our troops.

We have to remember who is really in charge, and I don't think President Bush has forgotten that for a moment...the Higher Power that is greater than us.

14 posted on 04/03/2007 6:44:43 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Whenever I’m tempted to think of the Republicans as shotrsighted and stupid, I look at the Democrats and those thoughts go away. They’ve been trying to runaway from their appeasement reputation for twenty years, and in a couple months time they’ve thrown that all out the window.


15 posted on 04/03/2007 6:46:01 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Duncan Hunter '08 Pro family, pro life, pro second Amendment, not a control freak.)
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To: stylecouncilor

This makes my blood boil.


16 posted on 04/03/2007 6:48:10 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: Savage Beast

Why shouldn’t these a$$sholes behave this way?

When, that any of us can remember, have they ever been held to account?

Keep praying for their destruction.

For all those who didn’t vote or voted to “teach a lesson” as your new leader Queen Nancy has pointed out: “Elections have consequences”.


17 posted on 04/03/2007 6:50:05 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("the left is rearranging the beach to make sure the tsunami comes in as unimpeded as possible." -)
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To: pabianice

18 posted on 04/03/2007 6:52:55 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
"— all the while denying that they are intruding on the president’s authority"

...or endangering the American people, the United States, and The American Dream or that their motives are self-serving.

But they are DEMOCRATS!

We're talking about counter-culture hippies who have seized control of the U.S. government!

19 posted on 04/03/2007 6:57:10 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Left is America's Ephialtes.)
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To: vikingd00d

I guess Nancy’s never heard of the Logan Act. Ironic, since she was telling the President that “[Congress] respects his Constitutional authority but he needs to respect theirs.”

Huh? Hey Queenie - foreign policy is the SOLE province of the Executive - and you ain’t there yet! You can bet if Newt Gingrich had done this during the term of Slick Willie, the MSM would haVe been all over it!


20 posted on 04/03/2007 7:12:20 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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