The below story shows, to me at least, how totally inept George Walker Bush and his entire administration are. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes to Syria and accomplishes what Bush and his entire team of foreign policy incompetents cannot…in one meeting.
Ms. Pelosi has more foreign policy savvy in her little pinky than George Walker Bush has in his entire administration:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/ts_nm/syria_usa_pelosi_dc;_ylt=AmZ3VgqvyIZe1n5wGOm8VoGs0NUE
It should be embarrassing to Bush & his gang of incompetent thieves that the new speaker of the House, who has served in that office just a few months, has more diplomatic skills than he and his entire foreign policy team combined.
In addition, does anyone else read anything into the fact that Ms. Pelosi, of all of the responsibilities and priorities she already has on her plate, has made this trip to Syria a priority? Is she burnishing her foreign policy credentials for some reason?
I wish. Now there’s a candidate I could get solidly behind. Or Barbara Boxer.
In a Heartbeat!
What happens if someone gets indicted and someone has to be removed via bi-partisan impeachment proceedings because their tenous grip on reality has finally vanished?
True…she does have foreign policy responsibilities just by virtue of her position. However, serving as a
“diplomat without portfolio,” so to speak, is not necessarily part of the standard job requirements for a Speaker of the House. My question related more to whether this seems to anyone else, as it does to me, that Ms. Pelosi is positioning herself for a possible presidential run.
Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Gore.
I hope Pelosi doesn’t run though, I think it would undermine her credibility as Speaker and as a leader.
I think we have too many legislators running around this year trying for higher office rather than focusing on the peoples business.
Or maybe she’s just doing whatever she can to forestall this Administration from thinking it has sufficient excuse to escalate the current disaster into a new war.
Bravo, Madame Speaker, for trying a bold new approach to the problems in the Middle East… actually talking to some of the parties involved, and with the respect and courtesy another sovereign nation deserves, instead of dictating ridiculous terms like a playground bully.