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Rob,

Oh, I don’t know.  From a purely aesthetic point of view the full burka could be considered a distinct improvment when it comes to Pelosi.

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Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Maybe NOW will publish Pelosi’s picture in mufti…

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If Nancy gets her way every female will be dressing in a burka.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

This is just SO Wrong! Since when did she become the symbol of foreign policy? She is a jerk!

I was thinking about getting a bigger vail to cover the rest of her face. How about something that prevents her from saying something stupid.

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The Blue one would be better.

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Someone needs to stuff a sock or a scarf in her mouth!

I believe she is over there to try to find some honored guests for the democrat convention in 2008.
She needs to stop her political pole-dancing and start doing what is good for the country, not what is good for the far left component of her party.

Sigh.. I hate defending Pelosi on anything.  She’s such a turd ball.

... but she was wearing the burkha while visiting a mosque.  Not that different to wearing a kippah while visiting a synagogue (Bush has done this at least a couple of times).

If she were wearing the burkha in public, that would be a bit different…

It is probably just me and I apologize, but why is it that the female leaders in the Democrat Party make most men lose their appetite for sex, at least with liberal women?

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman...What about Helen Thomas? Doesn’t she kind of make you quiver?

That is not a fair question, she is a hot babe and you know it!

[i]Sorry, I had to go retch for a minute!

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

carrick
that was responsible of you. congrats. i know it was hard…

Carrick...please don’t spoil the party.

Arbuckle...please change the avatar. It’s hard enough keeping abreast of all of the comments without the girls bouncing around like full, ripe, aghhhhhh!

"The nation has been hypnotized by the swaying and the gesturing of the Watusi and the Frug.”
*J. Helms*

Helen is one of those very exotic beauties...Well, maybe not???!

Thanks for informing me of that, Carrick.

Being a back-country rube I wasn’t aware that it was customary to wear that kind of head gear when visiting a mosque.  Or wearing the beanie thing when visiting a synagogue.

I’ll update the post.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Who does she think she is? The President of the USA? This is so inappropriate for her to do this! She really is power mad…

Nancy is doing just abou the same thing Ted Kennedy did back in the 80s behind Reagan’s back.  Sleeping with the enemy, or in her case, ? with the enemy.

Communism is evil

Who does she think she is? The President of the USA? This is so inappropriate for her to do this!

Unfortunately, not the first Democrat Speaker of the House to meddle in foreign affairs.
Speaker Jim Wright -D TX, made frequent trips to Nicaragua in support of the Thugocracy there, in oposition to the President’s policy.

I tried today to think of a Republican Speaker of the House who did anything remotely similar.  Nada!

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Are the tax payers paying for this trip? This is totally inapprpopriate & she needs to be called on it.  Jim Wright was a kook too. Is anyone else really irritated by this? OR is it just me? It is one thing to do the Congressional junk! BUT to go against the President & his administration is quite another? Pandering & sleeping with the enemy is a good way of characterizing what she is doing. THIS woman is out of control…

ZZ...are you aware that some Republicans are also poking around in Syria?

"The nation has been hypnotized by the swaying and the gesturing of the Watusi and the Frug.”
*J. Helms*

are you aware that some Republicans are also poking around in Syria?

Political whores come in two flavors??? Yeah! We know that. The Speaker of the House is supposed to know better, though.

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This is hardly the first time a Democrat Speaker of the House has acted in such an arrogantly presumptuous manner.

Former Speaker, Texas Democrat, Jim Wright authored the infamous “Dear Commandante” letter to communist Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega., in a deliberate attempt to undermine US policy in Central America during the Reagan administration.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

ZZ...are you aware that some Republicans are also poking around in Syria?

Are they there to undermine the President, like Pelosi is?

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

The bottom picture is more about culture than religion. Some Shias believe that it is a sin to cover your face. (my sister-in-law is originally from Saudi Arabia, i’ve asked)

Are the tax payers paying for this trip?

At least there’s a point to it, even if you disagree with it, and it’s not just some ridiculous political theater to show that one can walk safely through the streets of Baghdad provided one is accompanied by a platoon and multiple attack choppers.

At least there’s a point to it,

The point being that the Speaker of the House is a Secretary of State wannabe???

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* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
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If it’s ridiculous political theater you’re looking for, try spending a week debating a non-binding resolution on the war!

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* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

it’s not just some ridiculous political theater to show that one can walk safely through the streets of Baghdad provided one is accompanied by a platoon and multiple attack choppers.

hee hee hee.

Speaker Jim Wright -D TX, made frequent trips to Nicaragua in support of the Thugocracy there

Both parties supported thugocracies there. I thought Pelosi just went to Syria for some kick ass falafel?

Sparkie,

You have to ditch that avatar. I can’t focus my mind on sarcasm anymore.

Pelosi is there to get closer to her Syrian terrorist pals. Isn’t that lovely?  I wonder if she stopped by to visit Arafats grave?  Pelosi’s hatred of GW Bush is obsessive and she really needs to get to a psychiatrist! She is the sickest power mad psycho in Congress. Look at the weird look in her eye...?

r108

Are they there to undermine the President, like Pelosi is?

Is that why Pelosi is there? I missed that NR I guess...I assumed that all of the Congress Critters were fact gathering.

"The nation has been hypnotized by the swaying and the gesturing of the Watusi and the Frug.”
*J. Helms*

Mickey
Sorry. I will in another couple days. Cuts down on the # of tabs fellas need open though doesn’t it?

Mike A...She is there to undermine the President. This is her way to make a huge gesture in front of the World that she hates the President. She is obsessed!

I don’t know ZZ, you could be right although this report suggests that Pelosi is bringing a message to the Syrians from Israel so maybe the trip won’t be a complete waste.

"The nation has been hypnotized by the swaying and the gesturing of the Watusi and the Frug.”
*J. Helms*

Mike A...It would be nice to think Pelosi had other alternative reasons for going to Syria. I like to think the President knows more about the situation. Especially when the terrorist groups have proven their actions over & over.

Is that why Pelosi is there? I missed that NR I guess...I assumed that all of the Congress Critters were fact gathering.

Can you still be unaware of Pelosi’s extreme partisan opposition to the President, Mike?  Unbelievable!

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

It is probably just me and I apologize, but why is it that the female leaders in the Democrat Party make most men lose their appetite for sex, at least with liberal women?

I agree with that statement. Just take a look at Pelosi, Hellen Thomas and Hillary and that will kill any moment in milisecond.

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OH NOESS1111!!! The Horrors! An american lady wearing a scarf as a show of respect!!! OMG OMG OMG!!! like THIS ONE!!!!. EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!

Many a female politician has worn a scarf or hat on her head when visiting the Vatican. As a sign of respect.

The fact she was there, undermining U.S. foreign policy and giving aid to those who succor terrorists, that’s an outrage. Wearing a scarf, that’s not.

MikeAdamson, she has a right to be there as part of her congressional oversight role. She has no right to be there to perform a diplomatic function.  That would be an encroachment upon Article II powers.

The main objection to her presence is that in fact her role seems to be diplomatic rather than oversight in nature, as your link to “a message from Israel” suggests.  From my perspective she has pretty much shot herself in the foot with respect to any further cooperation with the State Department.  Those bureaucrats don’t like being excluded from the loop.

OK, would you be so kind as to publish follow-up:
Laura Bush being a good dhimmi,
Condi Rice being a good dhimmi?

BTW, women also can’t go into Orthodox Christian churches without headscarf.

Jeez, don’t you guys read the update?

As has been pointed out in the comments, Pelosi was visiting a mosque at the time of the photo above and such head ware is customary for women when visiting a mosque.  Sort of like those visiting a synagogue wearing that beanie hat they wear.

I see who gets their news by reading headlines.

Jeez, don’t you guys read the update?

Jeez, don’t you read the update?

Still, though, it’s a bit irksome to see a female US Senator wearing the ornaments an oppressive culture forces its women to wear.

Even though she did what anybody would do in her place, it’s still “irksome”.

As has been pointed out in the comments, Pelosi was visiting a mosque at the time of the photo above and such head ware is customary for women when visiting a mosque

Wouldn’t that be Muslim Women. I like the part where the press makes sure to bring up Nancys sign of the cross. MSM trying to pass Pelosi off as being religious too. Almost as funny as Clinton carrying a bible.

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Even though she did what anybody would do in her place, it’s still “irksome”.

And you give a f**k, exactly why?

The real joke here is that Ms Pelosi claims to be an ardent feminist, and actively courts that vote.  Her declarations about being the first female Speaker come to mind.  In this context, her wearing of a symbol of subjugation of women is particularly poignant.  BTW, wearing a headscarf in the Vatican is a sign of respect, not subjugation.  Not the same at all.

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(W)hy is it that the female leaders in the Democrat Party make most men lose their appetite for sex...?

Looking at the closeup shot of Pelosi, and that picture of Helen Thomas as well, I wonder if we can expect an “earmark” in the next appropriations bill to subsidize the production of botox.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

In this context, her wearing of a symbol of subjugation of women is particularly poignant.  BTW, wearing a headscarf in the Vatican is a sign of respect, not subjugation.  Not the same at all.

BZZZZZ!

Wearing a headscarf is not a symbol of subjugation, it’s a symbol of modesty and privacy (muslim women are not required to wear headscarfs at home or anywhere else where there are not males present -other than a close family member). And by that they have the same meaning and purpose (modesty and respect) that the veil has had for women in christianity and particulary for the Roman Catholic Church mainly outside the U.S. and before Vatican-II.

Obviously you’re free to interpret that as symbol a female subjugation thru different religions, but if you choose to do so, the same applies to the mentioend example of wearing a veil in the Vatican.

The whole point of this blog entry was to ridicule Pelosi while in a foreign culture that oppresses women (I’m not saying they don’t), but as noted in previous post others (Condi, Laura, etc.) have done the same in similar situations but despite the UPDATE, Rob still finds Pelosi’s actions (and only hers) “irksome”.

It would be a lot easier not to sneer at Speaker Pelosi if she had managed the same level of respect for the duly elected chief of state of her own country as she does for the autocratic Assad who has been implicated in the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon by the UN investigation.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One, I am glad you pointed that out!

Bat One, I am glad you pointed that out!

Yeah ! me too! BTW Don’t you think someone ought to teach a thing or two about respect to the Chief of State to THESE GUYS as well???

Jairzinho,

If Congressman Pitts had been shown to be disrespectful of the US President, I would certainly agree with you on the need to encourage him to be more respectful.  Such is not the case, however.

On the other hand,I found this bit, from the article you cited, most intriguing.  Perhaps you didn’t bother to read far enough to see it, or comprehend the full significance.

Gabe Neville, Pitts’ chief of staff, said Monday the conference between Assad and the three Republicans was intended to be “low profile.”

“It was done in cooperation with the administration,” he said.

Granted, the next paragraph offers the obligatory disclaimer,

However, White House spokesman Alex Conant said Monday the Bush administration — as a blanket policy — “discourages all of (Congress’ visits” to Syria, a country believed by the White House to sponsor terrorism.

But even this overlooks the fact that it is the Department of State, not the White House, that by law determines which states are supporters of terrorism, or that the designation of Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism was first made during the Clinton administration.

In any event, it would appear that Pitts’ trip, unlike that of Pelosi, was made with at least the deniable blessing of the administration.  A far more respectful approach, don’t you agree?

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

As I see it, the main reason for Pelosi’s trip to Syria is to claim the title:

Global Whore on Terror!

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* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
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In any event, it would appear that Pitts’ trip, unlike that of Pelosi, was made with at least the deniable blessing of the administration.  A far more respectful approach, don’t you agree?

Yes, I agree Bat One, a “more respectful” approach indeed. But that brings up the question about why they did get the “blessing” and Pelosi didn’t, and why it had to be “low profile” in their case? I hope it has nothing to do with going completely against their own policy of “having the terrorist-funding Syrian goverment isolated from the rest of the world” and thus appearing hypocritical or with the IOKIYAR rule. BTW, who is making Pelosi’s visit a big deal? This could have been also “low profile” otherwise.

We are getting way off topic. The original reason for the blog entry was Pelosi’s scarf, not the purpose of her visit or the lack of consent by the administration.

Thanks for a mature debate. Unfortunatelly I cannot say the same for some others posts here, the “Pelosi will have the terrorist eat our babies if she gets her way” type.

Jairzinho,

Thank you as well!  Pelosi remains little more than a modestly amusing sideshow, and I doubt that the administration would have used her visit, given her high visibility, for anything serious.

President Bush is still excoriated for his “Axis of Evil” description and his determined unwillingness to deal formally with North Korea bilaterally.  But the Koreans appear to be coming around, most likely with a firm but quiet push by the Chinese (and a quiet cutoff of international banking access), and Iran is equally vulnerable to a broad array of pressures, including recent threats by the Chinese and the Russians.

Hell, its even possible that the Pelosi trip was a deliberate smokescreen to cover that of Pitts and the other Republicans.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

The new memo won’t allow us to use Global Whore On Terror. LOL

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What scares me about Pelosi, is her amateurish self agrandizing nature.  She isn’t bright enough to know that Assad et al, were more than happy to USE HER for their purposes.  Stakes being what they are, you’d expect SOMEONE/ANYONE in Democratic circles to TONE HER DOWN.
VACUUM.  There is an ABSOLUTE VACUUM of MATURE leadership on the left. PELOSI, REID and MURTHA???
I’ve seen it coming.  At 40, on 9/11/01 I OFFICIALLY left the party of defeat, retreat and welfare.
Like Hillary Clinton, Pelosi is all about ME.

Pelosi is being used as a propaganda tool and she isn’t even smart enogh to know the difference.

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This was on the front page of Al Jazeera english version. Wow, I bet she is proud of her self now.
I like how they throw it back at Bush as being the one that is wrong. Yawn.

Pelosi: Israel and Syria want talks

The White House condemned the meeting
between Pelosi and the Syrian president [AFP]

The speaker of the US House of Representatives has said that Israel and Syria want peace talks.

Nancy Pelosi met Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president on Wednesday and conveyed a message from Ehud Olmert, the Israeli premier, that Israel was ready for peace talks.

She said al-Assad responded that he was ready to restart peace talks too.

“[Our] meeting with the president enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks,” Pelosi said.

She added that al-Assad “was ready to engage in negotiations [for] peace with Israel”.

Pelosi spoke to journalists at the end of a two-day visit to Syria, which the White House criticised as undermining US efforts to isolate Syria.

Syria’s official news agency quoted al-Assad as telling Pelosi: “Syria has adopted the Arab initiative. Its strategic choice is peace.”

‘No response’

George Bush, the US president, has said Pelosi’s trip signals that the al-Assad government is part of the international mainstream when it is not.

“A lot of people have gone to see President Assad ... and yet we haven’t seen action. He hasn’t responded,” Bush said.

On Wednesday, a spokesman for the White House national security council called the visit “counterproductive”.

Pelosi said she and other members of her congressional delegation told al-Assad their concerns about fighters crossing from Syria into Iraq.

The house speaker also said she had spoken to the president about Israeli soldiers captured by the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Palestinian groups.

Democrats have argued that the US should engage with its rivals in the region - Iran and Syria - to make headway in easing the problems in Iraq, Lebanon and the Israeli-Arab peace process. 

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Would Syria require Barney Frank to wear a Burqa??
What pisses me off, is that my GREAT GRANDFATHER died and is buried in DAMASCUS, SYRIA. (me and my Son are named after him) He gave his life for freedom and his country. (U.K./Scotland)
I have his U.K. medal of honour on my wall.  I have the buttons from his uniform, his medals and the King’s proclamation honouring his death in WWI.  OCTOBER 23,1918. (3 weeks before armistice).
Pelosi had golf courses, hotels, vineyards (no UNION labor), and the bitch is undermining our efforts as a country and she is being used.
My nephew Richard USMC was wounded Iraq 12/04.
My youngest brother is leaving a week from Friday for Iraq as the director of security from Green Zone to Airport (seven week stint State Dept.)
This evil bitch, is playing with American lives.
You may HATE Mr.Bush, but this is his Constitutional charge.  This is his job.  He is responsible, not some San Francisco limosine lib phony.
This shit is real.  The left thinks sabotaging us/U.S. is legitimate.  I have news ladies and gents, I won’t forget this liberal INVESTMENT in our FAILURE.  The left CANNOT ALLOW us to succeed.  They’ve already decided against us.

Christ goon, Pelosi is beyond delusional.  She flies into Syrian and SHAZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAM!!  Peace is just around the bend.  Israel and the U.S. diplomatic channels couldn’t get this BREAKTHROUGH, but Pelosi puts on her PRO-CHOICE head scarf, sits down with DR.ASSAD, and THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.
She has NO ONE to tell her she’s being used by our ENEMIES, I mean, there is no MATURE DEAN (no pun intended) left in the Democratic party.  This is so reminiscent of John Kerry sitting down with the V.C. and N.Vietnamese in Paris,(while the SWIFTBOATERS were still in Nam) while still commissioned a Naval Lt.
It’s also strangely familiar in mindset to Neville Chamberlain’s foray into pre-war Nazi Germany.
Hitler used Chamberlain as a USEFUL IDIOT.
Assad and Ahmedenijiad are doing likewise with LalaPelosi.
The problem as I SEE IT, is Pelosi, and those who support her, as SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO far out of their league.  They think DOGS don’t bite, if THEY TALK NICE TO THEM.  Pelosi thinks being “SPEAKER” makes her tougher, smarter, faster, stronger and prettier, than she was, the day before the election.
She was a hack then.  She’s a hack now.  But she has been duly elected speaker.

Again goon, you are on the mark…

“Pelosi is being used as a propaganda tool and she isn’t even smart enogh to know the difference”

Yes goon, it’s scary though.  She has the entire DEMOCRATIC PARTY BRAIN TRUST at her disposal. Yet she behaves moronically, wrecklessly.  It tells me that THIS IS PELOSI.  “I’m the QUEEN, and so far as I am the QUEEN, I’m going to be TREATED like and as the QUEEN, with all the perquesites QUEENSHIP entails.”
That would be COOL with me, if she was just saying I WON, I WON, FUQ YOU REPUBLICANS.
She is in WAY WAY WAY WAY above her head, and there is NO ONE LEFT (pun) ON THE LEFT, that recognizes the SERIOUSNESS.
It scares me.
Putting egotistical novices into such positions is dangerous.  The BUSH HATING moonbats, will sacrifice your kids and mine.  FOR POWER.

Mickey,

Apparently there are others of Syrian descent who agree with your assessment of Speaker Pelosi’s trip and her behaviour.

From the Syrian Reform Party website

As a Muslim, I fully understand respect of our religion by visiting US officials and I applaud that respect. Had Speaker Pelosi worn the Hijab inside a Mosque, this would have indicated respect but for Pelosi to wear it on the streets of Damascus all the while she is sitting with the self-imposed Baschar al-Assad who has come to symbolize oppression and one of the reasons why women are forced to wear the Hijab as they turn to religion to express their freedom is a statement of submittal not only to oppression but also to lack of women’s rights in the Middle East. Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and those who aspire for women’s freedom in the Muslim countries many years back with her visual statement. Her lack of experience of the Middle East is showing.

Assad could not have been happier because Syrian women, seeing a US official confirming what their husbands, the Imams in the Mosques tell them, and the society at large imposes on them through peer pressure will see in her wearing a Hijab as a confirmation of the societal pressures they are constantly under. No one will ever know how many women took the Hijab on after seeing Pelosi wearing it. The damage Speaker Pelosi is causing with her visit to Syria will be felt for many years to come.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One, Thank you and God bless you.  You’re God or mine.
Sincerely, you are CLASS.

Bat One, an addendum.  Mrs. Pelosi (praise be unto her), is PRO-CHOICE, by her own record.
What does PRO-CHOICE mean? 

The HYPOCRISY and RATIONALIZATION is STAGGERING.

Her new found friends are not pro-woman.  Ergo the “HIJAB” Mrs. Pelosi, PRO-CHOICED (PRO-CHOOOOOOSED) to wear., Her new found Syrian pals, and buddies, don’t allow WOMEN to FUNCTION in LEGISLATIVE ROLES, never mind LIBERAL LEGISLATORS trying to act in FOREIGN POLICY ROLES.

Cut to the chase.  Pelosi is a CLOWN, a HIJAB wearing LIMOSINE LIB, phony.

I’d simply point out that the Congress has a constitutionally mandated role in foreign affairs.  Furthermore, members of Congress travel to foreign locales all the time.

I’d simply point out that the Congress has a constitutionally mandated role in foreign affairs.

The problem is that what Congress thinks that role is isn’t always what the founders intended.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Rob, I take great pains not to just RIP TO SHREDS, certain....Half wits.  By half wit, I mean sincerely, those who are.. “half intelligent”.
If you are half intelligent, it’s like flipping a coin.
Grotius, whether wit or half, makes a HALF hearted attempt to weigh in. He made the assertion that “"CONGRESS has a CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED ROLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS."”
Whereso???  What role does the CONSTITUTION MANDATE on BEHALF of PELOSI et al Congress???????????????
as to FOREIGN AFFAIRS?????? NONE/ZERO/NUNN
THEN GROTIUS asserts that CONGRESSMEN TRAVEL TO FOREIGN SITES “ALL THE TIME”. So what.
I travel to WASHINGTON D.C. “all the time”.
Idiots scare me.  The lack of logic implored by otherwise “bright peeps” scares me.
Unless I am a “HALF WIT”, Congress has NO ROLE in foreign policy.  GROTIUS believes otherwise....BASED ON .....what????

Mickey,

First, thank you for the kind words.  Without getting into a broad-based theological discussion, it occurs to me that while my sons know me as “Dad,” my stepsons know me by my nickname, my wife knows me by “sweetheart,” I am, still, the same person, regardless of the appellation, with the same love for all of them.

As for Ms. Pelosi’s feminism, I suspect that if she was challenged, she would say that her presence is an opening, the beginning of a dialogue and a process to bring a more liberal approach to those oppressed.  And she would be correct in this, although she would also be blissfully ignorant of the fact that her proto-feminist approach is exactly the same as that of President Bush.  Except that his concern and his policy involves the choice of liberty and freedom of choice for all… not just the feminist few.

That Pelosi justifies her trip with the same rationale as the President she opposes, only on a far smaller scale, reflects her far smaller mind and her far smaller ambition as well.  That she is oblivious to the irony is a reflection of that smaller mind and ambition.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Nancy Pelosi is in direct violation of The Logan Act, which is still in it’s original language and completely enforceable. The act reads:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

She should be arrested upon her arrival back in the United States

http://www.reformsyria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=66

I think that this perspective may help clarify that Pelosi has, in fact, harmed the Syrian Reform parties attempts to change their oppressive government.