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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.

1 posted on 04/09/2007 7:13:59 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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'Don’t Investigate Pelosi — Debate Her Posted by NutCrackerBoy On 04/09/2007 7:13:57 PM PDT · 36 replies · 773+ views National Review Online ^ | April 9, 2007 | Andrew C. McCarthy Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we learned from our mistakes? The beleaguered Bush administration has had a dreadful couple of years. Now, for the first time in recent memory, a silk purse has fallen into the president’s lap in the form of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blundering stroll down “the road to Damascus,” also known as “Appeasement Avenue.” So what happens? Some influential administration supporters suggest turning it into the sow’s ear of all time: An indictment against Pelosi under the Logan Act. Here’s hoping President Bush not only turns a deaf ear to this advice but sees... '

Just wondering - what are the strange print characters that show up on some of the posts? I don't see it on all of them - but wonder what they are?

Is there a problem with my computer settings?

39 posted on 04/09/2007 9:16:38 PM PDT by LADY J
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impeach impeach IMPEACH HER!!!

if you can

otherwise give endless calls for her resignation.


41 posted on 04/09/2007 9:30:23 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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Not so much. The dems understand the whip only. What was that dem orchestrated House rule that targeted Tom Delay for the jury-searched indictment for retroactively violating a law? Oh, yeah...an indicted congressman cannot hold a leadership position!

Simple. Get an indictment. Gonzales announces said indictment (machiavellian poetry). Whether there will be a conviction is immaterial (though, trials of speaker’s of the house serve as a nice rejoinder to the house’s hearings ad nauseum). Pelosi, by her own rules, must resign her speaker’s position. The president’s poll numbers cant be hurt (any more). The impeachment threat doesnt stand. Now that the dems can smell the glove...can we work together now? are you going to cut the S? Or do I need to hit you again? We can indict Democrat congressmen ALL DAY LONG and dont have to stretch a point of law to do it (unlike your specter-backed judiciary committee charades). And we have the will to do it (that would be refreshing).

Pelosi cannot stand. It is, after all, good vs. evil. And good must prevail. Pansy responses like that the article’s author suggest give the other side the sense that they will never be truly held to account and can proceed with impunity. It is this type of counsel, then, that is partially responsible for the democrat behavior (failure to discipline the child when he/she was young).


42 posted on 04/09/2007 9:40:08 PM PDT by angrymarine
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Pelosi must be indicted. Gonzales should announce the indictment. An indicted member cannot keep a leadership position. Pelosi is stripped of the speaker position. Smell the glove, america-haters, now, do you want another piece of this (we got plenty of members to indict....for REAL crimes). Or are you going to cut the S.? Speaker Hoyer...hmm, speaking to known sponsors of terrorism...seems like aiding and abetting...indict...NEXT!..who’s the 3rd choice for speaker? We can get a majority back simply by arresting the felons on the Hill.


43 posted on 04/09/2007 9:40:08 PM PDT by angrymarine (I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myseld.)
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The piece was great and I fully agree with the thesis. A strong rebuke is needed for her violation of the Sole Organ doctrine, but prosecution under the Logan Act is not in the best interests of the Republican Party, nor America. At any rate, she has a defense against any action under Logan: she violated Sole Organ instead as a member of the government.

The question is how one properly reprimands Pelosi without going nuclear. The best solution that I can devise is to clip her wings literally, and hold back long-range government aircraft for the remainder of her hopefully two-year tenure. I'm sure Syria will do enough in the next while to make Damascus Nancy as good a name as Hanoi Jane.

44 posted on 04/09/2007 9:43:10 PM PDT by -gjd
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Ridicule would be best. She pushed all that pork in the Iraq funding bill, including the utterly urgent spinach and tropical fish subsidies. I recommend referring to her henceforth as “the Tropical Fish Lady” or the “Fish Salad Lady” or the “Baghdad Fish Salad Lady.”


45 posted on 04/09/2007 9:43:36 PM PDT by cookcounty (No journalist ever won a prize for reporting the facts. --Telling big stories? Now that's a winner.)
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Sorry to disagree with Andy here, but if Newt would have done this during the Clinton years, David Bonior and Nancy Pelosi would have pushed for him to be indicted. Recall Pelosi was part of the leadership back then.


46 posted on 04/09/2007 9:44:32 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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This two-century-old law, codified at Section 953 of the federal penal code, bars Americans who are “without authority of the United States” from conducting relations “with any foreign government … in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States[.]”

Haven't you heard? Pelosi is a Democrat. Democrats are above, beyond, and immune from the law.

Besides, she is just following precedent set by Jesse Jackson himself, and we all know that Jesse is the king when it comes to having unauthorized relations with foreign governments.

52 posted on 04/10/2007 1:50:27 AM PDT by wai-ming
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BULL CRAP!!!!

Bela Peloski needs to be tryed under the Logan Act, along with the three Republicans that went with her, and booted out of office....never to return!

She is trying to run the Government, excuse me, but I did not vote Peloski as President, I voted George W. Bush as President and until his term is over, that is who I expect to run this country!!!


55 posted on 04/10/2007 7:19:28 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Grow your own DOPE, plant a LIB""Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter 08")
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A debate is a good idea. Democrats so far have shown they fear debates. Does Nancy Pelosi have a stronger backbone than Obama, Hillary, and Edwards?


56 posted on 04/10/2007 7:21:46 AM PDT by apocalypto
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Leftist Liberal Democrats have gotten a free pass for too long. Nancy needs to pay a dear price for what she has done.

This one needs to be persued to the end instead of swept under the rug. I agree with the position of trying her in the court of public opinion. That can be done on the TV news by pundits and bloggers upon idictment. Just as it was for Scooter Libby.

If this action is allowed to stand without legal action, 08 may be lost. The conservative base will be further alienated by a lack of strength and may well sit home in greater numbers than 06.

Many people here on FR blame those folks, but I offer that people want their positions represented and when they aren’t, a price is paid called lack of support. Some call it RINO syndrome. Does the GOP want to be ‘taught another lesson’? Prosecution of Nancy Pelosi would demonstrate that a lesson was learned. Bush’s latest immigration speech shows that lesson was heard as he shifted a bit to the right on that subject. Now it is time to show it was learned and not just heard.

I read about people posing the Newt example. I am no fan on President Clinton but I respect the office of President and what the Executive branch holds when it comes to due power. Had Newt done something like this, he would have, and should have been prosecuted.

Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted to show everyone that that anarchy of the Leftist Democrats will no longer be tolerated. They must be reminded that actions have consequences. Now is the time and this is the example to do it properly. Maybe the American people could even gain an education about the three branches, and what their PROPER role is in our government in the process.

Prosecute Pelosi. Do it now.


60 posted on 04/10/2007 7:54:10 AM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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It is underreported that Speaker Pelosi's recent entourage has included the winner of the "Write Like Mark Twain Award," as he prepares a long-awaited sequel to Innocents Abroad.
62 posted on 04/10/2007 2:21:48 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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An indictment against Pelosi under the Logan Act.

One "non-partisan" special prosecutor deserves another IMHO. (If only the White House had the spine to do it.)

63 posted on 04/11/2007 9:59:43 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Victory in war means winning, unless you are a democ-rat.)
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The president can not only win that debate. He can use this opportunity to illustrate how damaging the criminalization of politics is in a democracy. He can stress that policy is something the Framers committed to the good judgment of an informed citizenry, not to the courts. And he can trenchantly separate himself from his knee-jerk “let’s appoint a prosecutor” critics by pointedly explaining that he trusts the American people, not the judicial system, to decide such matters as whether they really want détente Pelosi-style.

No, this is simply more of the same. It isn't a "knee-jerk" to enforce the law! Ms. Pelosi is no more above the law, particularly law written specifically on this subject, than any other citizen.

Pelosi should be arrested and prosecuted under the Logan Act.

Republicans have taken the gentlemanly, "be above it all" approach for far too long.

You can't win a street fight with debate. Democrats have been fighting a dirty street fight for years, and too many Republicans just don't get it.

66 posted on 04/11/2007 10:11:08 AM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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Don’t debate her, don’t investigate her, just arrest and prosecute her.


67 posted on 04/11/2007 10:14:29 AM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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