Posted on 10/07/2007 9:25:57 PM PDT by Jean S
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Congress cannot end the war in Iraq without President Bush’s approval.
Voters, she told Fox News Sunday, “want it to end and they had expectations that Congress could end it.”
But, she added, “You know we can’t without a presidential signature.”
That is a difference in tone from the defiant stand she took when campaigning for Congress and when she took over as speaker.
However, the statement is part of Pelosi’s campaign to educate voters on the complex political obstacles Democrats face on the Iraq issue and reduce the expectations that she says have left those voters disappointed with Congress.
But Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson challenged Pelosi’s assertion just a little later Sunday.
He told ABC News’s “This Week” that Congress could “de-authorize” the war without Bush’s signature, using a resolution already introduced by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).
“I believe a national movement could be built to support that,” Richardson said. “The president cannot veto that because it would be under Article I of the Constitution. That is the decisive step that the American people want. There is a disconnect between the voters and what’s happening in the Congress.”
Richardson has criticized his fellow presidential candidates for their unwillingness to commit to withdrawing troops by the end of the next presidential term.
In her Fox News Sunday interview, Pelosi also said she prays for Bush “all the time.”
“And I pray especially hard that he would sign the children’s health bill because it’s so important for America’s children.”
But she added that while growing up in politics, she learned not to pray “for a political outcome.”
“We just pray that God’s will will be done. We pray for the children, we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need help,” she said. “And we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform who make our freedom to pray possible.”
she can end our suffering by resigning.
But, she added, “You know we can’t without a presidential signature.”
Cough, Cough, B*LL SH*T, Cough, Cough!
Old crow.
“And I pray especially hard that he would sign the children’s health bill because it’s so important for America’s children.”
But she added that while growing up in politics, she learned not to pray “for a political outcome.”
“We just pray that God’s will will be done. We pray for the children, we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need help,” she said. “And we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform who make our freedom to pray possible.”
Never before have so few lines contained so many lies.
“We just pray that God’s will will be done. We pray for the children, we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need help,” she said. “And we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform who make our freedom to pray possible.”
God doesn’t hear the prayers of unrepentant butchers of innocents like you Nancy (abortion). You by taking His name on your lips only tasks Him to bring correction and humiltiation upon you.
The American voter voted to keep DeLay and Foley and Frist and other scandal plagued political pawns out of Congress.
They left before the race began but it didn’t matter on election day.
If there HAD been support to end the war, there would be enough congress critters to OVERRIDE the veto.
When Chis Wallace asked her if she prayed for the troops to win she was so rattled her face almost moved .
Gee, you weren’t saying that last January, or during the elections last year.
Did you finally take that Civics class this year? And, considering your continuing abysmal ignorance, who took the final for you?
I’m sure that Bush lies awake nights pondering her words of wisdom.
Notice how she's praying to see our troops not meet the goal?
Perhaps she is WRONG on this and God's will is to see the West help establish democracy and reforms in the Middle East.
Pelosi surrenders!
“That’s a personal matter.”
The ironic thing here is that democrats are so scared of being considered unpatriotic that they were afraid to vote against the invasion of Iraq. Now that they've got a little more clout, they want to have a do-over.
They are a collection of people who are bitter and hateful towards the American public because that same public won't let the democrats BE democrats; they distrust their own public. The dems so BADLY want to break out and be openly socialistic, but they don't trust their constituents to do the right thing and support them, the fools! So they allow themselves to be cowed by people, such as W, who actually believe in what the evidence and past actions show them. Bush knew he could sit around and kick Iraq down the road, but he didn't because he knew that this situation had to come to a head, and he didn't want that happening with nukes exploding here or in Israel.
Bush acted and caused pain and suffering for people in Iraq and in America because it was the best of some pretty awful choices--and it was the right choice. Democrats, on the other hand, only supported him because they were afraid of how they would appear to the general voting public, afraid of being labelled unpatriotic or something. Now they've been bitching and shrieking about how they are in charge now, and they STILL can't vote as they like because the presidential election is around the corner and they so badly want to win...so even though they are in control, they won't do what their lib voters want.
It isn't always great being a Republican, but what a soul-eating horror it must be to be a democrat.
LOL..
I noticed her face looked awfully tightened up again...
I've never read something from a politician and been so sure they were lying as when I read that.
She covered all the bases with that last one. The rat party, "The people who need help".
She and others like her are double-minded and receive nothing from God.
James 1:5-8
5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. 6But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; 7, 8for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
She’s talking to her constituents (idiots). Maybe it’ll work.
Only because they refuse to read the constitution.
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