Fair & Balanced Headline from CNN :cheney: Pelosi shows 'bad behavior' in Syria

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and don't you love that last line...in the link you can click there and see several critisisms of Pelosi.....

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday of "bad behavior" on her Middle East trip, saying she bungled a message for Syria's president that was later clarified by Israel.

Cheney harshly criticized Pelosi's visit to Syria this week and declared in an interview, "The president is the one who conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House."

Pelosi's Syrian stopover was opposed from the start by the Bush administration, which accuses Damascus of sponsoring terrorism and says it should be isolated from the international community.

While in Damascus Wednesday, Pelosi announced she had told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Israel was prepared to negotiate with Syria. That prompted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office to underline the Jewish state's preconditions for such talks -- including that Syria abandon its "support for terrorist groups." (Watch how Pelosi's trip draws criticism on several fronts )

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/06/cheney.pelosi.reut/index.html

[americanstranger]

1. "The president is the one who conducts foreign policy." Oh, really?

The only foreign policy I've seen out of Bush is bombing our enemies and bullying our allies.

Cheney's brain is most definitely rotting away from the inside, and he's only pissed because Pelosi is making them look even worse than they made themselves look on their own.

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[NC_Nurse]

2. Bad behavior?

Is he her father or what? :eyes:

[walldude]

5. That's what I thought yesterday when I first heard this

next thing you know he's going to ground her and take away her cell phone :eyes:

[MrModerate]

3. Pelosi is not my ideal of a Speaker, but . . .

I think she skunked 'em on this one. Olmert's weaseling is not going to stand up to the transcripts; the Pelosi visit flanked by 'Lican visits on the previous and following days gives lie to the notion that legislators are prohibited from communicating with Assad; Cheney's emissions of toxic gases are just not taken seriously anymore; and Bush (once again) looks inept because he hasn't "conducted foreign policy" with Syria -- he's tried to ignore them.

The whole administration is tripping over its own feet, picking the wrong fights, and looking paler and paler each day. Wait until Bush saws his own arm off with the veto of the Iraq bill, and you'll see another data point in his long decline.

I'm going to wait about two weeks but I think the time is almost right for a "death spiral" watch on Schimpanski's tenure at 1600 Penn. Ave.

[Matariki]

6. She skunked them alright. She made them look irrelevant.

They're desperately trying to regain the perception of being the ones in control.

[indie_voter]

7. I think so

They look even more childish than they have in the past. These shrill attacks on Pelosi only serves to draw attention their inaction.

[Matariki]

4. Have you noticed the Bush admin has been using that term 'bad behavior' a lot?

They used it about Syria and about Iran and now about Nancy Pelosi. A quick read of George Lakoff explains the reason for that choice of phraseology. Setting a tone where they are the 'adult' and parent and the painting the people they're using that language about as children (that need to be punished).

They are very obviously trying to belittle and turn the tables on Pelosi, who surely showed herself to be the actual sensible and responsible adult compared to anyone in the Bush administration.

[MrModerate]

8. But is anyone buying that kool-aid today?

Sure the MSM is trying to run that meme up the flagpole (to gratuitously mix metaphors), but is anybody saluting?

[Alacrat]

9. Robert Turner in the Wall Street Journal

04-06-07

This guy is saying Speaker Pelosi may have committed a felony by going to Syria.
He claims, The Logan Act, from 1799<--1799? (they had to dig deep for this BS), makes it a felony for anyone outside of the executive branch to communicate with a foreign government in order to influence that governments behavior on any disputes with The United States.

This puke, is actually calling for charges to be filed against Speaker Pelosi.

They have no shame!

I don't think this is a can of worms the pukes want to even consider opening, unless everyone of them
wants to end up in jail.

[AndreaCG]

11. File them against the Republican members of Congress

Who visited Syria too.

Oh wait, IOKIYAR.

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. Didn't Pelosi communicate exactly what Olmert's office is saying she didn't?

I don't know why he would go and say that, considering that it seems to have been well documented otherwise.