I'll take Nancy Pelosi for $7000, Alex.
We better pray it does fail.
And for the record, even my die-hard liberal buddy at work thinks this bill is the most numbingly stupid move ever.
How many exploding cigars is this for the Dems now. Talk about a do-nothing congress.
When was the last time she actually managed to accomplish anything legislatively? Mrs. Pelosi is on the verge of becoming one of the most ineffective and insignificant House Speakers in US history.
From Ed Morrissey:
The bill condemning Turkey for the Armenian genocide of 1915 has begun to lose support and may not have enough Democrats on board to pass. A group of Democrats will hold a press conference later today asking House leadership to table the motion in light of the disastrous impact it might have on our military efforts in Iraq and our relationship with the one Muslim democracy in the Middle East:
Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution supported by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.
What’s the point of this again? Why not condemn policies in Zimbabwe or the Sudan that are killing people TODAY? What’s up with this 100 year-old stuff?
I'll take Nancy Pelosi for $7000, Alex.
Fixed it.
Worse Speaker of the House, ever.
What are they gonna propose next? A non-binding resolution condemning the destruction of Carthage by the Romans?
How about that?
Red/Swing state Democrats are hearing a lot of nastiness on talk radio about “Democratic betrayal of the troops in Iraq” and are acting accordingly.
Who comes up with these ideas for Pelosi? Can you imagine the ones she won’t approve?
ON AND COMMEMORATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2000
United States - House of Representatives To designate April 24, 1975, as “National Day of Remembrance of Man’s Inhumanity to Man”
April 9, 1975
66th Congress
2nd Session
S. RES. 359. [Senate Resolution 359]
In the Senate of the United States.
May 11, 1920
Even Bill Clinton thought this was a dumb idea, IIRC.
I said on another thread yesterday, not only is Pelosi’s move stupid because of how Turkey responded, she has now put us in the position of having to back down out of necessity. Every Bin Laden wannabe will see it as U.S. weakness.
What good would it do anyway to condemn something that happened almost 100 years ago and point the blame at a people that had little or nothing to do with it. The Ottoman empire is not present day Turkey.
MURTHA ISN”T BACKING NANCY??!!??
Echoing down the halls of the Congress, "Ha! He called me. Me, Nancy Pelosi. I made the President call me. Who cares what happened to the country's interests? He called me. Now I am truly queen. I won! I won!"
stupid biatch.
Pippi Pelosi.