Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Democratic Contract On America


Startlingly good editorial in today's Investors Business Daily (subscription required, hat tip: Atlas Shrugs):

Diplomacy: “We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy,” a member of Nancy Pelosi’s Mideast entourage said. Problem is, it’s one applauded by terrorists around the world who couldn’t be happier she’s speaker of the House.

We wonder what the media reaction would have been had Newt Gingrich traveled around the world in 1995 offering an alternative Republican foreign policy. Suppose he had, to cite just one example, condemned on foreign soil Bill Clinton’s shameful withdrawal from Somalia, which inspired Osama bin Laden to plan 9/11.

At least Gingrich, unlike Pelosi, wouldn’t have been giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies. She advocates talking to Iran, which is building nukes to annihilate Israel and shipping advanced explosive devices to Iraq to kill British and U.S. troops. She advocates a date certain for throwing the people of Iraq to the Islamofascist wolves.

Speaker Pelosi expressed the foolish thought that “the road to Damascus is the road to peace.” The road to Damascus is the road Syrian supply columns traveled bringing Iranian rockets and supplies plus a few goodies of their own to help Hezbollah attack Israel and plot the overthrow of Lebanon’s democracy. It was the body of that democracy that Pelosi tip-toed around to visit the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, among others, who were dispatched by Syrian operatives.

We wonder if Pelosi is malicious or merely naive. After all, last December she picked Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas to head the critical House Intelligence Committee, describing him as having “impeccable national security credentials.” But in a subsequent interview, Reyes couldn’t describe Hezbollah, the Iranian-created and supplied terrorist group that used Lebanon as a human shield in its war with Israel and which murdered 241 U.S. soldiers in Beirut in 1983.

Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who accompanied Pelosi, said during the group’s stop in Israel, “We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy.” And of the visit to Baathist thug Bashar Assad, Lantos said: “This is only the beginning of our constructive dialogue with Syria, and we hope to build on this visit.” Our dialogue? Read the Constitution and the law, Tom.

We’re of a mind with Robert F. Turner, who served as acting assistant secretary of state under President Reagan. He suggests Pelosi et al. may have violated the Logan Act, which makes it a felony for any American, even one who is third in the line of presidential succession, to conduct foreign policy on their own initiative.

The Logan Act provides a prison term of three years for anyone who “without the authority of the United States” communicates with a foreign government for the purpose of changing its policies regarding “disputes or controversies with the United States.” Patrick Fitzgerald, call your office.

So who’s happy with Pelosi’s trip? Well, Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip. He said her trip to Syria “is proof of the importance of the resistance against the U.S.” He added that “Americans know and understand they are losing in Iraq and the Middle East and their only chance to survive is to reduce hostilities with Arab countries and with Islam.”

Sharing the Islamofascist view that our “only chance to survive” is to have Pelosi negotiate the terms of our surrender is Jihad Jaara, senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. “I think she is very brave and hope all the people will support her,” he said. “All the American people must make peace with Syria and Iran and with Hamas.”

Khaled Al-Batch, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad, says “Nancy Pelosi understands the area well” and expressed the hope she would keep winning elections. Islamic Jihad’s chief, Ramadan Shallah, calls Syria home, as does Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.

We didn’t see Tip O’Neill running to Moscow with “an alternative Democratic foreign policy” subverting Reagan’s confronting head-on what he called the “evil empire.” But then, Tip knew all politics was local and all foreign policy was the president’s responsibility.

And O’Neill knew whose side he was on.

Would it be trite to say indeed?

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Exclusive transcript: Pelosi & Syrian Dictator Assad



Thank you, Madame Speaker, for your visit. I know President Bush had objected to your trip, so I appreciate your support.


You are most welcome, President Assad. I feel this can be more than a "photo opp," to use the President's term.


You are soooo right. Oh, hold on for a moment. We need a couple of pictures. Just freeze for a moment.


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All set. You were saying... ?


We simply want to express our hope that Syria can arrive at a path to peace.


Does this involve recognizing the so-called state of Israel?


Why, yes, of course.


Does this require that we stop funding and equipping terrorists?


-Er- ... Yes, that too.


HAWHAHHAWHAHAWHAHAHAHWAHAHAHAHAHWAHAHAHHA!!! WHOOOOooooo!! Whoa! Hold on... ...let me catch my breath... good one! Wonderful sense of humor -


Hey, I'm serious here!


You can't be! Your President Clinton paid my father a visit in '94. We told him then that such an approach is ludicrous.


But we've declared a jihad on terrorism! You know that!


You can't declare a jihad! Only we can declare a jihad!


Well... well... we're a giant tsunami of anti-terrorism!


That was pretty politically incorrect... all of those innocent deaths due to the tsunami...


Yes, I guess that's true. That line went over like a pregnant suicide bomber.


Wait just a second. A pregnant suicide bomber... hmmmm.... interesting.


Mr. President, all that being said, I am hopeful that we can issue a statement that would confirm our joint hopes for peace.


We'll get back to you on a statement, though it might be punctuated with a loud explosion.


Thank you for that. Dialogue is the first step on the grand walk of peace.


Dialogue is the first step on the grand walk of peace. Quite poetic! You know... Nancy... I saw that picture of you wearing a hijab. And I'd wager that back in the Fifties, you were quite a hottie. Do you... do you have any dinner plans tonight?


Oven-baked good readin', just like Mama used to make:
LGF: Syrian Reformists: The Damage from Pelosi's Visit Will Be Felt for Years
Anchoress, Blue Crab Boulevard, Hang Right Politics, Rick Moran, STACLU, Wizbang

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Democratic War Spending Bill: Defeat, Pork, and Discord



Ready to review the war spending bill? Just wanted to make sure it's got everything we talked about.


Absolutely!


Does it micromanage the war?


Check.


Undermine commanders by setting an arbitrary date for withdrawal?


Check.


Let terrorists know how long they need to hibernate until we leave?


Check.


Tick off our Iraqi allies?


Check.


(Rubbing hands) Good... very good.


How much in bribes -- I mean, incentives -- did we have to pay to get those votes?


Ah, don't worry about it. Only about $24 billion.


Was any of it related to the war?


MWAHAWAWAHHHWAWHAW!!! Whoooo!! Hehehehehe! Good one, Jackie boy!


Well? What was it?


$283 million for a milk program.


Milk?


It does a body good! And $74 million for peanut storage.


Peanut... storage?


Damn peanuts keep escaping. And we've got $60 million for salmon fisheries.


Uhm, salmon?


Omega-3, my unindicted friend - really pumps up your HDL! Oh, plus, $50 million for asbestos cleanup.


Nothing more urgent than the asbestos scourge. It's as bad as global warming!


And $13 million for lamb replacement.


That makes sense. Damn lambs need replacement, what with all of them... --er-- --uhm--- dying off.


$24 million for sugar beet producers.


That's because the sour beets have been taking their market share!


$40 million for tree assistance.


Those must be elderly trees. They need assisted living after the Bush health-care debacle.
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$25 million for spinach growers.


Yup. After the e coli scare, those spinach growers need all the help they can get. You know, it's not just for breakfast anymore.


So, all of these --er-- extras were enough to convince our recalcitrant friends?


Yep, Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) said so. He's one of many... we'd never have gotten the 218-212 margin without our, uhm, incentives.


I can't believe these Republicans are calling this "pork!" What a bunch of hypocrites!


I know! Thank heavens we've ended their culture of corruption!