Posted on 10/16/2007 3:30:56 PM PDT by Republican Red
Pelosi Wavering on Armenian Resolution Email Share October 16, 2007 5:39 PM
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: According to Congressional and Bush administration sources, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now unlikely to bring a resolution which would label the deaths of Armenians in a conflict more than 90 years ago as "genocide".
Pelosi, as recently as Sunday on "This Week", has repeatedly said she would call the controversial but nonbinding resolution for a vote despite the opposition of the Bush administration and warnings that it could damage U.S. relations with Turkey.
President Bush called Speaker Pelosi on Monday night and asked her to pull the bill. But Congressional sources say that Pelosi is telling House members that she will not bring the bill to the floor without majority support.
At least seven House members have withdrawn as co-sponsors of the bill and several more are expected to follow. Key Pelosi ally Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., is also lobbying against a vote.
Key House members continue to canvass members but don't expect a vote this year
This could blow out to be one of the biggest stinkers in U.S. history, and they all know it. They don’t want to back down, but don’t want to go down as the traitors they are either in the history books either.
Nasty nancy = no balls
Courage
Thanks Nancy, good move now that the horse is out of the barn.
But, but, but everyone KNOWS that it’s good to have a liberal Democrat woman in charge! /s
The problem for the U.S. now, not that Pelosi and her ilk care, is that all the rest of the world is going to know or see is that Turkey made the United States back down by withdrawing her ambassador. Makes us look like wimps. Wonder how many Bin Laden’s will be emboldened by Pelosi’s political move?
She is such a tool. I also love the fact that Cindy Sheehan is driving her and her neighbors nuts. May karma continue its good work...
We need to have one of those Fox type “swoosh” sounds every time Pelosi or Reid fail in yet another one of their schemes.
FAILED AGAIN *swoosh*
She starts the damned fire only to run away from it??????
Incompetent, destructive, evil witch
I guess we all should have known she’d wave the white flag and surrender. This time I’m glad she did.
“I hereby direct the sheriff of this county to remove you from this courtroom forthwith, and to transport you to the gallows, where before sundown this day you are to be hanged by the neck until dead; your body left to be picked at by the crows, until the Sheriff directs it to be cut down, drug to a shallow grave in unhallowed ground, and buried face down in the dirt.”
— Purported death sentence in the American west, attribution unknown
Link?
Pelosi did this for one reason. She wanted a bargaining chip for SCHIP.
No kidding. I was grudgingly giving credit to the dem aholes figuring they were helping to bring pressure on Turkey to back down against the Kurds in Iraq. Maybe they did and it worked and now they can pull the idea. Turkey did pull back.
She stepped on her Pelosi again.
SCHIP=Exhibit A of why socialism is societal poison. People will cheat to obtain benefits they would otherwise not qualify for. That means honest people get screwed and cheaters prosper. That means honest people give up trying to achieve or hire accountants to move their money out of the country. Socialism is poison.
(rhetorical question, of course!)
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