Pelosi unauthorized on foreign policy

[rodeodance]

tsk, tsk,

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/opinion/readersviews/index.php?ntid=128534&ntpid=2


APR 9, 2007 - 12:11 PM
Pelosi unauthorized on foreign policy

Pelosi unauthorized on foreign policy

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind of Wisconsin defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria saying that delivering tough words helps the president. He said if they hear it from the opposition party too, they're hearing a consistent message. That makes it sound like Pelosi supports President Bush's foreign policy.

Kind can deny Pelosi is usurping the president's constitutional authority, but Democrats are carrying out their own foreign policy and military policy on troop deployment. Only the president has the constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign countries, especially in wartime.

Pelosi's trip advertises American disunity, and the Syrians will use it to destabilize Iraq and the Middle East. The opposition party's role is not to intervene abroad to undermine this country's foreign policy. Democrats can have any foreign policy they want when they are elected to the White House.

The Democrats' political strategy is to cause our defeat in Iraq, to ensure their own political victory in 2008, leaving us at the mercy of hate- filled lunatics with nuclear capability.

[Demeter]

1. Oh, Really!

Wouldn't care to salt this with a few facts, would they?

[rfranklin]

2. We're already at the mercy of a nuclear capable maniac named Bush...

Are we going to worry about another one?

[bemildred]

3. My, he does sound upset. Speaking of hate filled lunatics ... nt

[Felix Mala]

4. Sadly, this isn't pablum. The right really believes this nonsense.

[angstlessk]

5. They do not REALLY believe if...only if they can charge a Democratic

do they REALLY believe it...when the Republicans did it when Clinton was in office nary a peep was heard!

[ljm2002]

6. So, is this fool even aware...

...that there was a Republican group who went to Syria the week before, without a peep from Bush et al? Is this fool aware that Ms. Pelosi's group also included a Republican? Is this fool aware that the trip was vetted with the State Department, and that the President was specifically informed of the trip -- and made no objection?

My guess: no, they cover their ears at anything that does not fit with their preconceptions. If it was a DC columnist, my guess would be yes, they know, but they don't care, as it does not fit in with their narrative.