thinkprogress.org — State Department officials were the very first to attack Nancy Pelosi for visiting with Syria last month. Apparently, they take it all back -- "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Egypt on Thursday or Friday."
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zephkielMay 3, 2007
No, no, you don't understand. It was bad last month. Now it's perfectly acceptable. Didn't you get the memo?
viktroMay 3, 2007
Pelosi is not a senator..in fact her title SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE probably gives you a hint. Yah damn condi for like..doing what her job requires...yall need to find some real reasons to hate bush and stop being stupid.
ipeeandpoopMay 3, 2007
If your not a neocon trying to scare and threaten the Syrians, you're off message and not to speak to them. Not just Syria but other countries where the neocons are plotting. Neocon diplomacy is no diplomacy.
jchromeMay 3, 2007
Although I'm sure that any clear-thinking individual long ago came to the conclusion that the Bush Administration is one of the most dangerously stupid and pig-head group of leaders that the country has ever seen, they would also know that it is in fact Rice's job (and certainly not Pelosi's) to engage in diplomatic foreign relations on behalf of the country.
fieriMay 3, 2007
As what you guys call a "neocon," I "whine" about all of those things. I just don't believe that they're part of an evil plot to take over the country. I believe that Bush sincerely wants to fight those he believes are enemies, and that he sometimes goes too far.I do believe you're engaging in a bit of hyperbole with that list however. None of those things have done more than intensify under Bush. Habeas corpus has been skirted around in extreme cases by past Presidents. Wiretapping is a decades-old method of enemy communication intercepts. Signing statements are as old as the Presidency.Obviously Bush has made errors in all three of those areas. But there are people in this country not entitled to habeas corpus, and there are cases where wiretapping is justified.As to your claim about the expanding of executive power, that is pure crap. The only thing Bush has done to increase executive authority is appoint favorable justices, which is expected.
Closed AccountMay 3, 2007
No, but she's perfectly within her right to hold talks with anyone she wants. As were the other congressmen who accompanied her.Pelosi _personally informed_ the president that she'd be visiting Syria and holding talks with the administration, as is her right, and the president _didn't object_. She went, together with e.g. GOP representatives, and once there the administration decided to score political points by claiming that talking to the Syrians undermine US position.But lo and behold, just a few weeks later Rice is sent to have talks with Syria *and* Iran.Yes, that's hypocricy. More, there is a good chance Rices visit is due to subjects brought up during Pelosis visit.
floorman56May 4, 2007
Dude ...even the New York Times slammed her for going.... the New York Times!!!