She was thinking that it didn't matter what she did or said, that the hatred of Bush has been so thoroughly inculcated into her base support and has bled so thickly through the American population through Democrat propoganda that no faux pas - no overreach - no one day bad story in the press could hurt her standing.
Pelosi is "doing" foreign policy for show. She doesn't care about foreign policy, the Democrats don't give a flying f about foreign policy. They have no interest in matters so esoteric as the survival of civilization.
The only thing important to them is getting back to the small-bore politics of the Clinton years -- manufactured crises that they never have to solve to retain power. They want to do lip service to get foreign policy off the radar. To them, the only game in town is universal health care (tax hikes), education funding (tax hikes), global warming (tax hikes and restrictions on personal freedoms) and the gap between "rich" and "poor" (tax hikes).
That's Democrat politics, and they're working hard to get back to that and off of this minor little nuisance like a religious movement that is trying to destroy our civilization. Thus this crap that lets them give lip-service to something they couldn't care less about.
Absolutely right!
Good to 'see' you!