Post columnist defends Pelosi.
By on Apr 6th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Post columnist defends Pelosi.
Greg Sargent highlights Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson’s appearance on Hardball. Robinson “defends Pelosi’s trip to Syria, but he also says a couple things about his colleagues on the editorial page, which is edited by Fred Hiatt. He says this: ‘I’m pleased to be able to tell you I’m not a member of editorial board.’”
Sargent has more HERE.
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Pelosi is worth defending.
Particularly in the face of attacks by BushCo (which always have sick and twisted motivations).
April 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pmFinally, I thought the entire MSM was drinking the Bushco koolaid!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 4:34 pmyou mean to say the fascist media allowed this little blurb of semi positive verbal exchange about Pelosi or be on the tele prompt?
April 6th, 2007 at 4:34 pmI meant: to be on the tele prompt?
April 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pmWhich is why I subscribe to the LA Times now. GO RUMSFELD!!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 4:48 pmPelosi IS worth defending. conservatives are upset by this because they’ve lost the ability to use diplomacy (hell, they’ve divided their own country). Speaker Pelosi just showed them how it’s done.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:03 pmLOGAN ACT
April 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pm§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Comment by Ringo — April 6, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
So what’s your point?
Typical as*wipe repugnut repeating lies and slurs!!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pmso i guess Hastert should be tried for the Logan Act, too.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10416.html
April 6th, 2007 at 5:31 pmArrest Pelosi as soon as she returns to the U.S., put her on trial for treason, and execute her.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:37 pm—————————-
Sure, what the hell.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:56 pmPelosi has made Bush look even more ignorant so the right wingers are having a collective vertical hissy. They can’t help it — they backed a spoiled boy-king who lies, who keeps secrets, who uses people then tosses them, who employs failures like himself, and who has public temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:13 pmPelosi is the adult now and is taking first steps toward re-establishing the relations that have been trashed by the moron in the White House for more than 6 years. The righties hate her for being right, for being diplomatic, for doing the right thing — the antithesis of their boy-king.
Arrest Pelosi as soon as she returns to the U.S., put her on trial for treason, and execute her.
Jake, show me a DECLARATION OF WAR against SYRIA that has been PASSED BY CONGRESS or stop talking out of your a**!
You CANNOT be tried for TREASON unless you engage in givng aid and comfort to the ENEMY. As far as I know, Syria has NOT been declared to be an enemy of the United States by Congress or the President.
And if you’re so hot to trot about this, then we’d better arrest, try and execute the other 12 Representatives (including the 5 REPUBLICANS who went to Syria) because they DID THE SAME DAMN THING!
Good lord, you are so dense you rival black holes.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pmThe righties hate her for being right, for being diplomatic, for doing the right thing — the antithesis of their boy-king.
Comment by Marie
****Couldn’t have said it any better.Well said Marie.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pmJake just wants Pelosi dead so she can’t assume the Presidency when Bush and Cheney are finally impeached.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:27 pmThe repukes just cannot understand how a female politician can grow some balls and put the duo of losers to shame.Leadership and diplomacy, values absent in this moronic administration.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:22 pmLittle death-cult babies are sore because a girl stole away their plans to double down on the Iraq disaster. Some other time, scumbags.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:35 pmMr. Robinson is one of the very FEW true journalists left in this God-forsaken plutocracy…
…the fascists have their tenacles everywhere, all throughout the msm…
…Robinson always tells it like it is…
…straight up, no spin…
…But I still say Nancy made a HUGE mistake…
…amening Bushiva’s FAILED, wreckless, and dangerous foreign policy…
…she should’ve just said she was on a fact finding misssion…
April 6th, 2007 at 11:16 pmEugene Robinson—A TRUE JOURNALIST WITH GUTS AND BALLS, AND A CONSCIENCE–WHAT A RARITY AMONG THE CRAVEN MSM BASTARDS, INCLUDING THE HOST OF “HARDBALL”, Mr. Tweety-Softballs Chris Matthews, WHO PANDERS TO AND ROLLS OVER FOR Monkey Boy CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies—SHAMEFUL FOOLS!!!!!
April 7th, 2007 at 1:26 amJake, you’re a jerk.
Jake, you’re a joke.
Jake, let’s face it, you are a sexist mind warped asskisser for the Chimperor Boy King God. All you need is a pair of leather bikinis and you can just pucker your lips toward his dirty skanky butt.
Guess that proves that in your sick mind, the hypocrites are right and the honest ones are wrong.
VIVA, PRESIDENT PELOSI.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:40 amJAKE
April 7th, 2007 at 2:16 amPelosi committed a felony by talking to Syria against the wishes of the Bush administration. You cannot effectively handle / deal with an adversary, when a member of the opposition party is engaging with that adversary in a separate effort. To make matters far worse, she bungled it.
I think this does not bode well for Hill’reh Clinton. Whereas, the US has created an environment that has allowed Nancy and Hill’reh to rise to power, the world is a far different place, and this proves that American women are not yet ready to step onto the world stage.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:03 amNo Jason the world is not ready for incapable sexist like you.Thing is you and your fella repuke poseurs hate diplomacy.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:20 pmNo Jason the world is not ready for incapable sexist like you.Thing is you and your fella repuke poseurs hate diplomacy.
Comment by Hector Garcia — April 7, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Well said!
April 7th, 2007 at 2:34 pmPelosi committed a felony by talking to Syria against the wishes of the Bush administration. You cannot effectively handle / deal with an adversary, when a member of the opposition party is engaging with that adversary in a separate effort. To make matters far worse, she bungled it.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — April 7, 2007 @ 10:03 am
And what of the other group of Republicans that are also visiting Syria? Why are they there? Did the Bush administration denounce their trip as well? No? Why not?
She bungled it? Proof?
Bush doesn’t give a damn about diplomacy. Because if he had pushed for it in Iraq after the G-damned mess he made, and took the lead in trying to quell the violence in Iraq, then the “war” there may have ended years ago. With the civil war they have over there, the answer is not to pour more American troops into the mix. The answer is to find a way to end it without more bloodshed, if Bush truly wants peace in the Mid East.
But he doesn’t want that. Wouldn’t have been “prudent,” to borrow a favorite word of his father, to have and end to the war so early on.
Oh no…bin Laden and al Quaeda and the terror threat level system and “war” on terror have all worked quite well for the president. If not for the “war,” Bush would have been out on his ass in 2004. Social Security reform and tax cuts and pitiful attempts to “reform” healthcare would not have saved him.
Billions in revenue from no-bid contracts for corporate friends of the president (see Haliburton) notwithstanding, all the war-related things I mentioned above have served him well. Because without them, there would have been no “if Kerry wins, we’ll be attacked again” or “the Democrats are on bin Laden’s side” or “if the Democrats win Congress, the terrorists win” bullshit.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:48 pmIf Shrub can shriek Executive Priviledge every time someone wants to peak in his, or his staff’s, dirty laundry, I say Madame Speaker has an equal right to Congressional Priviledge to meet with anyone she pleases who is not a declared enemy of the USA.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:53 pm#7 Forrest, the Logan Act has never and will never apply to members of Congress. Der.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:09 pm#22 No, Hendler, she didn’t. Get a law degree or shut up.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:10 pm