Toronto Sun: Power to the Pelosi

[marmar]

By ERIC MARGOLIS


President George Bush charges that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip this week to Syria was undermining U.S. foreign policy. He’s absolutely correct.

If ever there was an administration whose foreign policy needed undermining, it’s the Bush/Cheney duo. Speaker Pelosi, the third ranking government official, and a remarkably capable lady, is doing all Americans a service.

The republic’s founding fathers were deeply worried a future president might run amok or make himself an absolute ruler. The primary constitutional architecture of the U.S. government is designed to thwart such dangers through a brilliant system of checks and balances.

Congress was created as the premiere branch of government to express the voice of the American people. Its leaders have the duty and every legal right to intervene when they see the executive branch leading the nation over a cliff and repeatedly violating the Constitution.
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Disturbing the peace

Surveying 26,000 respondents in 25 different nations, the study (that included Americans) found the dominant view was the U.S. is playing a “mainly negative” role in the world. Two thirds believed the U.S. military presence in the Mideast is stoking conflicts.

Most shocking, when respondents were asked which nations posed the greatest danger to world peace, or were most negatively regarded, the answer was a new “axis of evil”: Israel, Iran and the United States.

Horrid North Korea came just ahead of the U.S.A. This is appalling, considering the hundreds of millions the U.S. government spends annually promoting its image abroad.

The world’s most respected nation was Canada — constant target of scorn by U.S. conservatives — followed by France, Japan and the European Union.
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Reinvigorated left wing

The Bush/Cheney Administration’s aggressive Darwinian policies, and Bush’s lamentable persona, not only power anti-Americanism everywhere, they have restored and reinvigorated left wing parties around the globe.

It’s too soon to tell if Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Damascus bears fruit. But her visit came at the clear demand of America’s majority that voted in the Democrats to make this disaster-prone administration change course. I can’t think of a better antidote to Bush and Cheney than Speaker Pelosi. Too bad she’s not running for president instead of Hillary Clinton........

The complete piece is at: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/04/08/3952148.html

[MadMaddie]

1. K & R for the article and for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

:kick:

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. another kick.....

:kick:

[melody]

3. Great about Pelosi, nuts to the compulsive Yankee bashing

The US is far more than one President and one faction. Unfortunately, Bush's perfidy
feeds pre-existing bias against regular Americans, which this article displays.

[Fovea]

4. Good on you, Ms. Pelosi

But could we please please please put impeachment back on the table?

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Pelosi for President in 2007

The Washington press whores and the right wing lunatics are singing a different tune than Mr. Margolis, but he has it right. As usual, Fred Hiatt and The Washington Post and FoxNews and friends -- whose messages have become indistiguishable from each other's -- have it wrong.

The Bush regime has no foreign policy with any public support. Mr. Bush keeps saying he was elected to do a job. Laying aside that it is questionable that Mr. Bush was ever elected, he isn't doing the job.

Under normal circumstances, I would be concerned about the Speaker of the House doing what Ms. Pelosi did. However, we usually have a president who, if we do not always agree with him, at least acts responsible enough to deal with adversaries and try to avoid war if possible. Bush and Cheney believe war to be the pancea for all that troubles the world and have brought even the world's mightiest military in recorded history to the brink of disaster through misuse, overuse and abuse.

That should concern us more than any impropriety of the Speaker acting as diplomat. Somebody has to do the job.

[marmar]

11. We can hope....

n/t

[bemildred]

12. Heck yeah.

Someone with a brain and a spine in the White House for a change.

[Cha]

6. Yay, Eric! And he used to be

a conservative, didn't he?

"It’s too soon to tell if Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Damascus bears fruit. But her visit came at the clear demand of America’s majority that voted in the Democrats to make this disaster-prone administration change course. I can’t think of a better antidote to Bush and Cheney than Speaker Pelosi. Too bad she’s not running for president instead of Hillary Clinton........"

[marmar]

7. I didn't know that....I wonder what made him see the light?

:think:

[Cha]

8. Let's ask him...and my

memory is fuzzy on this(been a few years when I read something about it)..but I'm betting it was the bushits.

Heck, he could still be a conservative in many respects and still want Nancy Pelosi for the US Prez.

[MasonJar]

9. The trouble is that we gave the brainless one a second term; before

the 04 election the rest of the world thought that the US citizens had been duped along with the world in general, but we have lost that excuse now and rightly so. I love it what France is the second most respected country. Take that Pugs...and your so-called freedom fries.

[melody]

10. If "the rest of the world" is fair, they'll know the second election was stolen, too

In general, the people who liked the US before will be open to our continued humanity and those who hated us before will keep on hating. Same old story.