Posted on 04/09/2007 6:36:05 AM PDT by rob21
"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared after her visit to Syria and her meeting with its hereditary dictator Bashir Assad last week. "We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria."
The woman second in line for the presidency (after Vice President Dick Cheney) seemed to believe she was on a Henry Kissinger-like shuttle diplomacy mission from Jerusalem to Damascus.
But Henry Kissinger she ain't. Pelosi said she was delivering a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria. A seeming breakthrough. Not so, said a statement speedily issued by Olmert's office. It said that Olmert had not made "any change in the policies of Israel."
Pelosi said Assad indicated he was ready to "resume the peace process." That wasn't the impression other members of Congress took away from their meeting with him a few days earlier. Syria under Assad pere et fils has steadfastly refused to make peace with Israel, despite diplomatic efforts considerably more assiduous than Pelosi is in a position to undertake. Bill Clinton's first secretary of state, Warren Christopher, traveled the road to Damascus to meet with the elder Assad 22 times. End product: nada.
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I live in Tennessee, where my rep is a Dem, and both of my senators are mealy mouth weak sisters.
The sweetest words I can imagine hearing are, “Madame Speaker, you are under arrest for violating the Logan Act”.
Dingbat alert.
Dingbat Pelosi continues her march through fantasy land.
She can think Bush is the problem. That’s her perogative.
The power of the presidency is not.
“Pelosi has presumed the Presidency of a de facto Shadow Government>”
Bush can crush this by the power of the Logan Act. Madame Speaker you are under arrest for treason.
Well send an email anyway. It can’t hurt to try!
President Bush is the problem that is blocking communism, socialism, increased welfare funds, raiding the Treasury to fund leftist global warming scams, sharia law and dims that are traitors!
PROSECUTE peloser using the L O G A N***A C T ! ! !
LLS
See now, I would’ve said that SHE’S the problem.
General Pelosi is a few fries short of a happy meal.
What she did was a violation of the Logan Act along with Article 2 Section 2 of the constitution. I am sure that she will be prosecuted for this when hell freezes over.
What she did was a violation of the Logan Act along with Article 2 Section 2 of the constitution. I am sure that she will be prosecuted for this when hell freezes over.
She flunked the basic qualifiers all the way around....!!!
I think that her trip is not at all like shuttle diplomacy but really more like the Gong Show... Where is the guy with the giant hook to pull her off frame???
The Democrats need to reign in Pelosi before she does permanent damage to the position of the Speaker of the House and the Office of the President. Just have them ask themselves how they would have reacted in the same case if the Speaker was named “Gingrich” and the President was named “Clinton”.
This could be true, if you're traveling the road in an armor column.
From this moment on, I have officially decided to ignore anything that displays the name “Pelosi”.
I think that I may have caught PDS, Pelosi Derangement Syndrome.
The problem with that is, the dims may get someone to replace her who is truly effective and not quite as loony as SanFranNan. It's better to have her making an ass of herself for the world to see. She is proving on a daily basis why, in a dangerous world, liberal dims are not ready for prime time when it comes to national security.
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