Posted on 04/12/2007 7:38:37 AM PDT by SmithL
During the fall congressional campaigns, Republicans raised the specter of what "San Francisco liberal" Nancy Pelosi would do as speaker should the Democrats win control of the House. Now, after three months in the role, Pelosi has become the marquee player in a nightly passion play -- as the Democrat Republicans most love to hate.
The latest episode in what has become an increasingly vociferous anti-Pelosi firestorm: her public discussion at the side of San Mateo Rep. Tom Lantos, Democratic chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who suggested at a press conference Tuesday that a trip to Iran to talk with that nation's vilified president might be in the best interests of American diplomacy.
The White House weighed in Wednesday, calling the mere possibility of a visit to Iran "unproductive and unhelpful.''
But Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman, said that Pelosi "has no intention of going to Iran.''
"As she said (Tuesday), the president of Iran's statements about the destruction of Israel and denial of the Holocaust are repulsive and outside the circle of civilized human behavior," Daly said in a statement. "She has great respect for Mr. Lantos, who is the only Holocaust survivor in the Congress and a staunch supporter of Israel and who would like to go to begin a dialogue there, as the bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended."
The discussion, just a week after Pelosi set off a political controversy with her trip to Syria during the congressional recess, set the critics at it again. They raged about everything from her choice of suits to her choice of words, calling her everything from a traitor to a presidential wanna-be to just plain crazy.
The onslaught could be having some effect.
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Yes, she is that stupid.
She has more plastic in her face than my Optimus Prime did when I was 8.
GOP outrage. Gee. I’ll bet that has everyone shaking in their boots. What are they going to do? Ask her not to do it again without saying, “please?”
That’ll be about as forceful as they’ve been in the past few years.
Just reading that paragraph over and over leaves me scratching my head....Their remarks are repulsive and outside the circle of civilized human behavior but we support Lantos' idea to begin a dialog there.
These remarks made just after stating she has no plans to go there and start a dialog. Huh?
LOL
That’s an insult to animal life. =)
But being responsible for the actual murder of thousands of innocent human beings, as Bashar Assad is, is perfectly acceptable to Nancy Pelosi, and Tom Lantos, and the rest of the terrorist-loving Democrat party.
She'll go to Iran. It's only a matter of time.
I saw an anti-Pelosi commercial on Fox News this morning. It was sponsored by some Jewish group, and was criticizing her for going to Syria. Putting these on Fox is preaching to the converted, so I hope they’re running these on other channels.
That’ll be about as forceful as they’ve been in the past few years.
So the Democrats want to ally themselves with the criminals that took our people as hostages in 1979. Mark it down folks, anyone who wants to side with the scum that held our people for 444 days in 1979 are themselves traitors and scumbags.
And Bashar Assad probably has some pretty enlightened views about the Holocaust as well.
If Pelosi & Co. continue to hint about going to Iran to meet with the guy who participated in the taking of American hostages and holding them against their will for 444 days, the Administration MUST threaten to prosecute her and her merry band under the Logan Act. If that does not happen, we’re all cooked: the RATs will have proven themselves to be the traitors they are, and the Pubbies will have proven themselves to be a bunch of spineless jellyfish.
“Pelosi is drunk with power and sees herself as sort of a messiah. Her eyes actually wax over when she is in front of the cameras. She is dangerous and needs to be stopped in her tracks.”
The way to bring down those drunk on power is usually to play to their ego and let them hang themselves. It ought to be easy to draw her into a no-win situation.
Uh, .....NO, it wasn't the suit, it was the HIJAB that Her Dhimmitude wore.
First, "she has been very smart to be conscious of how she looks and sounds," Lehane said.
Uh, NO, see comment above.
"She has challenged the direction the president and his party are taking the country with a tone that is more in sadness than in anger -- and more as a mom and grandma than as a partisan.''
We have our own mothers and grandmothers.
No one elected her to that position.
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