Women in Politics: The Three Conspirators
So we are not the only ones who understand what Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing. This article from the Washington Post suggests that ‘by law, Congress must keep out of diplomacy.’ If that is true, then why the hell is the SINO having discussions with a country which the President has clearly defined as off limits? And if the President has given prior approval as may be suggested others have done, it certainly is not evident in his statements on the matter. Can our elected representatives do anything that gives the impression of unity and intelligence?
Speaker’s Role In Foreign Policy Is a Recent, and Sensitive, Issue
By Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 5, 2007; A15
The question to former president Jimmy Carter yesterday was: Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a better envoy to the Middle East than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?Carter, a diplomat himself, demurred. But his interlocutor had put a finger squarely on a sore spot — some would say in the eye of — the Bush White House. By law, Congress must keep out of diplomacy. In history, House speakers and lawmakers have crossed that line, some with the blessing of the president and some against his wishes.
Foreign policy experts generally agree that Pelosi’s dealings with Middle East leaders have not strayed far, if at all, from those typical for a congressional trip. But in a nation deeply divided over America’s role and standing in the world, the Democratic-led Congress’s push into foreign policy has prompted a ferocious reaction from a White House doubly protective of its turf.
Score another victory for this country’s opponents via Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. This is one more mistake by Nancy Pelosi that will keep our series on Women in Politics alive at least a little longer. Along with her two accomplices from California, Nancy’s 100 hour agenda still to this day has only one item that has become law. It is the House Page Board lame reform as a result of last year’s scandal.
Her first accomplice, Diane Feinstein should be investigated by the Democratic oversight champion Henry Waxman. What’s the story on Feinstein and her husband and MILCON and any possible connection to the Walter Reed problems?
And accomplice number two, Barbara Boxer, is about to go on a liberal rampage with the likes of Ted Kennedy and newcomer to our list, Carolyn Maloney and others. As if having her chair the Committee on the Environment and Public Works to echo the Al Gore mantra wasn’t enough, they want to revisit the stupidity of a meaningless ERA that is nothing more than a symbolic repetition of protections already on the books.
Why are the Dems trying so hard to avoid national defense, security, border control, immigration, health care, education, ethics reform, the economy, jobs, corporate governance, lobby elimination rather than reform and a host of other real problems? Your slim majority will last only until the next election if you continue down the same road of party politics as did your opponents the last time they had the majority.
Stanford Matthews
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