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In light of the leftwing whackjobs' anger with Speaker Pelosi, shortly before 5pm today, I phoned the Speaker's district office in San Francisco. Identifying myself as writing a story for the website "freerepublic," I asked, "In light of some of some of the calls for resignation on various blogs and websites over the Speaker's knowledge about waterboarding, can the Speaker confirm or deny any intent to resign her position?" The female hack who answered the phone wasn't particular appreciative of the question and directed me to speaker.gov. "No direct comments?" No -- go to speaker.gov.........click. For your amusement, and this...

Question: Will Republicans chicken out and allow Nancy Pelosi to get away with prancing off to Syria and conspiring with Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad, a supporter of terrorism? Answer: Only if you and I fail to do something about it -- and MIGHTY QUICK! For months, Pelosi has been strutting around the country... waving a white flag... savaging the President... demanding our UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ON THE WAR ON TERROR. In fact, if she had her way, the United States would skulk out of Iraq like whipped dogs, letting a bunch of rag-tag Islamic Fascists run the world. ……. Pelosi arguably...

April 12, 2007 Pelosi's Syriana By Debra Saunders House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently is willing to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad -- even though Syria has supported terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and allowed terrorists to cross the Syrian border with Iraq to attack U.S. troops -- but until late Wednesday, she would not accept an invitation from the president of the United States to discuss legislation to continue funding for the Iraq war. At a hometown press conference Tuesday, Pelosi explained: "What the president invited us to do is to come to his office so that we could...

April 11, 2007 By the late 1790s, America was fighting an undeclared "Quasi-War" with France on the high seas. (web site) France's revolutionary government, at war with England, began allowing its navy to seize American ships trading with that country. England began interfering with American ships trading with France. Congress authorized the War Department to build six frigates (primarily intended to fight Barbary pirates, no longer confined to the Mediterranean by Portugal) in 1794, but by 1797 only three had been built. Meanwhile, the French were further incensed by a trade agreement between America and Great Britain. In 1796, France...

**SNIP** Pelosi and Lantos went over to Syria for one purpose, and that was to undermine United States foreign policy. That's why they went, and that is what they did, and now they are responding to criticism by claiming they really went over there to celebrate all the religious holidays, to carry the president's message and so forth. But she is lying about it, and Lantos let the cat out of the bag because he admitted that they were there establishing an alternative Democrat foreign policy, which means he admits that the Democrats are attempting to undermine established US foreign...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's make-believe secretary of state routine in Syria has been painted by the press as a sign of emboldened Democrats taking on Team Bush's neocon bumblers. Chris Matthews echoed his colleagues' sentiments when he joyously declared Pelosi would "open the doors to peace." It was, of course, an outrage, a direct slap at the president, an effort to humiliate him on the international stage. President Bush, Vice President Cheney and White House spokesman Dan Bartlett were quoted decrying Pelosi's diplomatic freelancing. Conservative talk radio was livid. But where, oh where, were the congressional Republicans?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is clearly one of those women who want it all. In her case though, this is not simply a matter of a lady seeking to have both a family and a fulfilling and successful professional life. Rather, the first female leader of the House of Representatives evidently seeks also to be the commander-in-chief and the secretary of state. The job of the former would be circumscribed, if not rendered impossible, by the legislation Mrs. Pelosi is currently pushing through Congress. Her supplemental spending bill meant to provide resources needed to fund ongoing military operations would compel the...

Former President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria, rejecting White House criticism of the visit. "I was glad that she went," Carter said Wednesday. "When there is a crisis, the best way to help resolve the crisis is to deal with the people who are instrumental in the problem." Pelosi arrived in Syria on Tuesday, in an attempt to open direct dialogue with Syria's leader, something President Bush opposes. Pelosi also discussed with President Bashar Al-Assad concerns about Syria's support for militant groups. Bush on Tuesday called the trip "counterproductive" and said it...

By the time Nancy Pelosi left for Syria, she had accumulated a hyper-liberal anti-war track record only Cindy Sheehan could equal. From the moment she was installed as speaker, she has run hard left. From attempting to get Jack “Cut and Run” Murtha (D.-PA) elected House Majority Leader over the liberal but still sane Steny Hoyer of Maryland to the current battle over the war supplemental appropriations bill -- which the House passed after inserting language that would force American withdrawal from Iraq by a date certain -- Pelosi has never deviated from the most radical position on the war....

The visit to the Middle East, and to Syria in particular, by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has provoked mixed reactions in the Arab world. Some wrote that Pelosi's visit challenged the foreign policy of the Bush administration, and that it had improved the U.S.'s image in the Arab and Muslim world. Others took a more skeptical approach, denying that the visit had made any major change. Still others were highly critical, and accused Pelosi of damaging the cause of democracy in Syria. Syrian Journalist: Pelosi Has Opened the Door to a Syria-U.S. Dialogue Pelosi's visit was well received in...

"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...

President George Bush charges that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip this week to Syria was undermining U.S. foreign policy. He’s absolutely correct. If ever there was an administration whose foreign policy needed undermining, it’s the Bush/Cheney duo. Speaker Pelosi, the third ranking government official, and a remarkably capable lady, is doing all Americans a service.

Michael Ramirez's latest on Pelosi's Spring Break.

Two U.S. senators went against their usual party lines today to defend and criticize Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali., over her recent trip to Syria. Speaking with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, Penn., said the Democratic leader did the right thing by going to Syria and meeting with President Assad, a trip the White House denounced. "She has a very prominent constitutional role in determining what's going to happen in the Iraq war," he said. "I don't think it is helpful for people in the administration to characterize her as being engaged in, quote 'bad behavior,'...

Three Republican congressmen who visited Damascus three days before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived were eager to disassociate themselves from the Democratic leader and make clear they did not even know she was going to Syria. When President Bush assailed Pelosi for her Syrian mission, she noted that Republican Representatives Frank Wolf of Virginia, Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania and Robert Aderholt of Alabama made the same journey. Some news reports gave the false impression that they all were on the same congressional delegation. While Wolf emphasized that he and his two GOP colleagues support Bush's Iraq policy, their mission to...

Nancy Pelosi has persistently violated her duty to exercise her speaker powers in accordance with the Constitution and the current "106th Congress House Rules Manual" (House Document 106-320). In short, she has fostered what is known as "tyranny by the majority" — and violated House Rules that give her the duty to maintain order, civility, and decorum, and to foster "comity" (a word rarely used these days, meaning "mutual respect"). She also denied a request by President Bush (who has primary constitutional authority over the conduct of foreign policy) that as the third-highest official of the United State she not...

After last November's election, I wrote that the climate in Congress would likely move to the far left, but this writer never dreamed that the Speaker of the House would try to dangerously undermine this nation's foreign policy. But that's exactly what Nancy Pelosi has done by taking off and sitting down with one of this planet's more reprehensible monsters, namely Syrian president and terror supporter Bashar Assad. Syria is not our friend. They have been allowing huge amounts of weapons to be moved from its borders to the Lebanese-based Hezbollah militia and they have been suspected of supporting the...

<p>Wearing her scarf of female submission, US Democrat Speaker of the House entered Islamic Syria during the week prior to Easter. Many of us were surprised that she didn't don a full burqa. Speaking for the new US Democrat Shadow Government, after her talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Pelosi told Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (and the worldwide press) that Israel was "ready to engage in peace talks" with the terrorist nation. Wow! All it took was a woman (as a strong side note-women are considered to be below beasts of burden in fundamentalist Islamic-run countries) to settle the problems in the Middle East. If only we'd tried this sooner the world could have avoided all of the bloodshed and wars that have been ongoing for multiple decades between Israel and terrorist Islamic countries!</p>

You know, if she were to just *shut* *up* we'd find something else to write about. By Moe Lane Posted in Congress — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment » Sooo... You gotta admit, she keeps plugging. Despite violating the Logan Act (Not that that would worry any American politician!), repudiating the Syrian Accountability Act [text here] (A scrap of paper! True, one with her signature on it, but! A scrap of paper!), putting extremely unwelcome words in the mouth of one of our most fervent allies (But that's a plus! For certain members of...

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney assailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday for visiting Syria's president and accused Democrats in Washington of playing politics with Iraq. Likewise, Republican rival Rudy Giuliani criticized Democrats for pushing a deadline for a military withdrawal from Iraq, saying the idea "lacks common sense." And, a third GOP candidate, Tommy Thompson, presented his own plan to create stability in Iraq -- including letting the Iraqi government vote on whether U.S. troops should stay. The candidates vying for the GOP nomination focused on a standoff between Democrats who control Congress and President Bush over a bill...