Cheney accuses Pelosi of bad behavior in Syria

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney accused U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on 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 on 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."



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TAKE A PILL DICK!

[MichiganVote]

1. She has made the obvious plain---they haven't done a damn thing

[Ezlivin]

2. "The president is the one who conducts foreign policy" --- Ha, ha, ha

Yeah, right.

Bush wouldn't know a foreign policy if it was tattooed on Condi's inner thigh.

[C_U_L8R]

3. cram it... dick

you're dead wrong
dead wrong on everything.
everything.

[mvd]

4. I accuse Cheney of evil behavior - as always

Pelosi probably helped bring the situation to a good ending in Iran. Since when can't anyone but the President go overseas?

[xchrom]

5. the President doesn't know the meaning of ''foreign'' or ''policy''.

and the result is self evident that he doesn't conduct foreign policy.

[tanyev]

6. Somebody has to step in and do it when the Secretary of State is incompetent,

and the president's idea of "foreign policy" is a one note litany of threats and bullying.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Cheney is saying the President is incapable of conducting foreign policy

In as many words! Cheney is worried the President doesn't have a handle on things.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. What President? What foreign policy?

We have neither.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

36. What's Cheney's approval rating now it used to 19% more like 0% now?

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[salin]

9. I can't help but think that each time Cheney "scolds" Pelosi or anyone

else about "bad behavior" that more and more eyes roll across america.

[mac56]

11. This says it all:

The article says he made his comments on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Any claim to credibility is gone-gone-gone.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. While he sits on the sidelines impotent.

He's a fucking nothing.

[sakabatou]

13. That's a really shiny mirror you have there, Dick

[bluerum]

14. What did she do? Get drunk and shoot someone in the face? eom

[peacetalksforall]

15. OK, this is proof that the U.S. (Cheney) gave Israel orders to backtrack on

what they told Pelosi. The is Cheney-Boating. She's been swifted. Ring the bell! Dis-reality.

[peacetalksforall]

16. A bright side? He had to go on the Limbaugh show to pitchs this

lie because no one else would allow him? Or will he be making the evening rounds?

Then contemplate a parallel thread = The Sun of NY is saying Cheney should run for President. It looks like the corporations are not going to be satisfied with the riches from eight years.

Plus, he's talking about doing away with the 8 year limit for Pres?

Something's up.

[louis-t]

20. Can you show me a link where he says

he wants to do away with the 8 year limit? I know he's still delusional that he can keep a Repugnant majority forever, and I still believe that if ANYBODY is capable of declaring martial law to 'stay in power' it's this bunch.

[peacetalksforall]

26. I guess it's a hoax - here is one of four on it from DU -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=585086

interesting timing....

[sutz12]

17. What........... did she shoot somebody?

:evilgrin:

[scavenger]

18. She shot down Bush ego./nt

[Matariki]

19. The 'Bad Behavior' meme. The Great White Father has spoken.

:eyes: Everyone needs to read George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant.

[olddad56]

21. I'm waiting for Cheney to compare her to 'Nanoi Jane'.

[JoFerret]

22. Farcical

.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Give that old fart a drool cup and a fresh colostomy bag

and roll him back to his nursing home.

He's off his meds again.

[rodeodance]

24. well, then -tell Jr. to get over to the ME and do his WORK!

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."

[rodeodance]

25. Pelosi sure showed Condi up on the trip--te he

[NEOBuckeye]

27. Maybe the Speaker of the House *should* be President?

The current Madam Speaker proved herself more worthy of the role in a single day than the President and Vice President have in 6 years.

Maybe we should just make the Speaker of the House the equivalent of a Prime Ministership and just abolish the Presidency? The way Bush and Cheney have trashed the executive branch, perhaps the time has come for a serious overhaul in the way we distribute our power in government? At least the Speaker of the House must answer to Congress, and therefore, the people. We don't directly elect the president. We have electors for that role, and since 2000, the Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Pelosi? Has a nice ring to it!

[winston61]

28. Just a case of a sad old dog

smellin' his own sorry ass.

[Sterling]

29. I know the image of her in that sexist garb will not help us.

I think she looks like a fool parading around in a symbol of repression trying "not to offend" the oppressive societies that will not allow their women to be considered full fledge people. The whole trip had Hanoi Jane feel to it. I am not impressed so far with our parties foreign policy initiatives. Just as bad as Bush just different. Is there not some middle ground between not talking and kissing ass?

[scavenger]

30. She is who she is, why should she be something she's not just to please you?/nt

[Alexander]

31. yeah

what he said.

[truthisfreedom]

32. Another transparent attempt to pretend the administration is "in charge."

cheney always pretends to be the "angry dad" character, and he coaches bush to pretend this behavior as well (unsuccessfully).

cheney never says anything anyone in America is interested in hearing. He's got a very stern, snarling look, high criticism of anyone and anything that isn't him, very bad aim with a shotgun, and no nuance.

[CRK7376]

33. As my mother used to say....

that's the pot calling the kettle black....

[LynnTheDem]

34. OOPS, Cheney the dick is WRONG AGAIN!

He sure does love making a total laughing stock of a fool out of himself.

[SemperEadem]

35. that's really laughable

bad behavior? Like, what? Sounds like that dick is skurr'd. Asshole.

[MasonJar]

37. Cheney can just go Cheney himself!

[19jet54]

38. Logan Act

http://newsbusters.org/node/11873

Media Mostly Ignore Whether Pelosi’s Syria Trip Violated The Logan Act
Posted by Noel Sheppard on April 6, 2007 - 10:16.
Imagine if you will that in September 1996, just days after America launched a missile strike on Baghdad to expand the “no fly zone,” Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich met with Saddam Hussein to discuss foreign policy matters without the permission of President Clinton.

Would the media have vociferously discussed the possibility that Gingrich had violated federal law in doing so?

If the answer is a resounding “Yes,” then why have extremely few press outlets broached this issue as it pertains to current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) recent potentially law-breaking trip to Syria?

To best understand the issue, a little history is necessary. The Logan Act was created in 1799, and reads as follows:

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

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.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

The Act was named after George Logan, who in 1798, went to France without President John Adams’ permission to try and settle the Quasi-War.

With that in mind, there seems little doubt that Pelosi might have made the same mistake Logan did, and could be, at the very least, investigated for doing so.

:wtf: WHAT UTTER CRAP! :wtf:

[daleo]

40. Has the constitutionality of the Logan Act been tested?

I don't know for sure, but it seems doubtful that it would be constitutional.

[Telly Savalas]

39. What? Did she shoot somebody in the face?