Do you think Pelosi Still Does Not Get It?

Question

When Nancy Pelosi went to Syria she probably violated the Logan Act by interfering in negotiations with another country. Diplomatic negotiations are part of the Executive Branch function and not that of the Legislative. In addition to playing Diplomat, a message she gave to Syria from Israel was not conveyed properly and left Israel denying what Pelosi said.
What they fail to understand is that representatives of the Bush Administration (or any President’s Administration) are allowed to conduct these kinds of meetings. once again, Diplomacy is an Executive Branch function and therefore the President or his representatives are authorized to participate in them.
Pelosi is a member of the Legislative Branch and does not belong playing Diplomat. Who is she trying to be, Condi Rice?

Answer 1

She never has and she never will, but she is helping the Reps regain power with every stupid thing she says and does, God bless her.

Answer 2

I cannot give a better answer than "crusinthru' did. I think you may have found your best answer.
But, Pelosi, regrdless of all her faults seems to be the new "slick willy." She has a 50% approval rating and the pollsters will not hold her accountable for anything she says, does, or does not do.

Answer 3

Screw G BUSh an stuff .. there aitn nothing wrong she visiting syria. well Bush didnt like it as we know ecause its a (terrorist-state)
Bush is a
A total tosser who goes on about Muslim extremist's being the root of all evil, when he is himself a Christian extremist, and things are made a billion, billion times worse by the fact that he is president of the USA, he has one of the biggest armies in the world under his control and he has his extremelly itchy finger just waiting to push 'the button' and start a nuclear war.

George Bush is a total wanker

Answer 4

Rice followed Pelosi
she met the Syrians

Answer 5

No, it's the American people who do not "get it". If they did they would vote the thieving sonsabitches, including pelosi and all the rest of the bums, out and elect some real leaders who truly care about this country and not just their pocketbooks.

Answer 6

You just do not get it (nether does she, in more ways then one) this is what the Americans voted for. Don't you remember. The libtards in congress said so, so it must be so.

This is again do as we say not as we do. That is what the democrats do. Same old story.

Answer 7

Pelosi is a menace and should be replaced by a non-San Francisco citizen.

Answer 8

You won't get any favorable responses from libs on your question or from what I am going to share: (But you do make a good point.) And I do point out some less than ethical behaviour by some republicans too. Does anyone wonder why Congress has a job approval rating of 23 percent, seven points lower than even Bush's, need only look at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) failure to change the ethics of the Congress. Having pledged to make Congress full-time and put the lackadaisical members to work, she then announced a schedule for 2007 in which House members will have 20 weeks off (and when they work, it's Tuesday to Thursday most of the time).

Now Pelosi has come up with her own version of the No Child Left Behind program by asking the Defense Department to allow adult children of members of Congress to accompany them on their taxpayer-funded travel abroad if their spouses can't make it. Such heartfelt concern for the lonely congressman on a publicly paid junket may be her version of family values, but it is a waste of tax money.

To understand the depth of the abuse of taxpayer-funded travel, look at one of Pelosi's favorites, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). Miller has been to the following places for free on the taxpayer's dime between 2000 and 2006:

Mexico, Lebanon, Cambodia (twice), Israel (twice), Vietnam (twice), Jordan, South Africa, Iraq, France, Italy (twice), Hong Kong, Sudan (twice), Taiwan, Ghana, Laos, Liberia, Egypt and Cape Verde.

And Miller does not belong to any congressional committee that deals with foreign relations!

Pelosi's proposal - and the abuse of free travel by members like Miller explains why voters can't stand Congress and illustrates how little improvement there has been under the Democrats.

When his dad became Speaker of the House, Joshua Hastert, son of Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), moved to Washington, closed his record store back home and joined a lobbying firm. He found latent skills at lobbying members like his dad that he never knew he had. Google, recognizing these mythical abilities, hired him as their lobbyist. The Democrats went crazy criticizing abuses like these.

Now that Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) is the Democratic floor leader, he has not just one but three sons - and a son-in-law - who are lobbyists. One of Reid's sons, and his son-in-law, has lobbied in Washington; a second son lobbies for the same interests in Nevada; and a third son is an attorney who litigates for them in court. Reid's lobbyist-sons worked to promote federal land swaps, mining interests and the University of Nevada at Reno.

Not to be outdone, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt's (R-Mo.) wife, Abigail Perlman, is director of federal government affairs for Altria - the former Philip Morris corporation. Their relationship is one that was hatched in lobbying. While Blunt was dating Abigail, he quietly drafted language to benefit Altria/Philip Morris and tried to sneak it in the bill that established the Department of Homeland Security - without alerting the Republican leadership. Blunt's mission was to minimize the sale of cigarettes on the Internet, a thorn in the side of Altria/Philip Morris.
Fortunately, Hastert killed the amendment.

Of the 100 senators, the sons, daughters, husbands or wives of 20 of them are registered as lobbyists, whose job often boils down to lobbying Mom or Dad. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is typical of the conflicts that can arise in such a situation. His son Scott Hatch lobbied for the makers of ephedra while his father sponsored legislation to exempt the diet supplement from federal regulation. Scott got paid $2 million in lobbying fees, while Dad got more than $137,000 from the diet supplement industry.

While Pelosi is working on cleaning up Congress, here are a few suggestions for her:

..Ban anyone who is an immediate relative of a member from lobbying Congress.

..Ban members from hiring spouses and other immediate relatives on their official, campaign committee or political action committee payrolls.

..Ban taxpayer-paid travel by anyone but the member himself.

..Get Congress to stay in session full time, not just 32 weeks a year.

If she adopted measures like these, perhaps the American voter would respect her and her party more than they apparently do.

Answer 9

Except for Ron Paul, you could never get me to suppory or believe a republican. I have no problems with Pelosi.

Answer 10

No she never will, she is on a power trip.
Let let her hang herself, perhaps her own party will do it for us, as it is a reflection on all of them.