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Nancy Pelosi Gets Syrius

by Big Dog on Apr 5, 2007 at 10:56 Political

I wrote earlier and I commented at several sites as well as to a local radio show that Nancy Pelosi did not belong going to Syria. There were many who stated that we need to open dialogue with the Syrians and since Bush won’t do it perhaps Ms. Pelosi can get things done. Bush indicated he was not pleased with Pelosi but she rebuked him and stood her ground. After all, she knows what is best for this country because she is carrying out the will of the people. There were also comments about three Republicans who were in Syria and Pelosi indicated that the President had nothing to say to them. This is not quite true because the White House has told all members that they should stay out of that area. Additionally, Pelosi is not hesitant to remind people she is third in line for the White House so perhaps that is why the President was a bit more vocal about her trip.

I indicated earlier that diplomacy was an Executive Branch function and that is why we have a State Department. Congress gets its collective panties in a wad every time they think the President usurped their authority as the Legislative Branch and yet two times in a week Congress (or a portion of it) has encroached into Executive Branch territory. They introduced a bill that legislates how the Commander in Chief must use his troops and Pelosi is playing diplomat. The only problem is that Pelosi completely screwed up by making a statement about Israel that was untrue:

After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. What’s more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to “resume the peace process” as well.

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Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. “What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel,” said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister’s office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.” In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda. Washington Post

The Democrats like to tell us that Bush has ruined our credibility in the world and that his cowboy diplomacy is wrong. Whether it is or not is a debate for another time but the important thing to remember is that diplomacy is in his lane. Pelosi was out of her element and she got burned and made the US look bad at the same time. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Bush did not want her there in the first place.

Nancy Pelosi needs to come back to America and stick to her own job. The sooner she realizes that she is not the President, the better. Math must not be her strong suit. Third in line does not mean she is the President.

My friend GM Roper has the new book that Pelosi has written and you can find it here.

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