33 Comments

1. Fausta:

Wonder what designer did the head scarf she wore
My educated guess: Hermes

Apr 5, 2007 - 10:13 am 2. Buddy Larsen:

Hmm, ’search’ sez $300 for a Hermes silk scarf.

Wonder what the average monthly rent payments are for South Pacific tuna-cannery workers?

Apr 5, 2007 - 10:46 am 3. ricpic:

That nice Mr. Assad’s squint matches mine. He must be sincere.

Apr 5, 2007 - 11:43 am 4. Lem:

The hostages in Iran got more than Nancy for their troubles.
Even Olmert now says, ‘I did not had relations with that woman, Mrs. Pelosi’.

I wouldn’t send Pelosi to pick up chinese takeout…. She screw it up and someone else would end up with my wontons.

Apr 5, 2007 - 11:53 am 5. Terrye:

Aristocratic is right. I hate to admit it but the United States does have an aristocracy and this silly woman is part of it. Thanks to her husband’s money and her Daddy’s political contacts she has been able to become the first woman Speaker. As a woman, this shames me.

I wonder, if people had really known what having Nancy as Speaker of the House was going to be like..would they have been so ready to let the Democrats have the House back?

BTW, I know she is busy and all, but maybe she could take a minute or two to read the Constitution and refresh herself as to just what her job description is and is not.

Apr 5, 2007 - 11:55 am 6. daveinboca:

Nancy Pelosi is a conniving idiot without brains, but with a lot of Italian chutzpah. Stick-insect boy-Assad is a liar and a murderer of Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon.

Plus the dodo from the City on the Bay misrepresents Israel’s position. But no one except delusional agitpreppies take her seriously.

The Democrats are incapable of running a foreign policy and should be kept from the Oval Office. Jimmy Carter is the biggest proof of this, but Clinton ain’t far behind, as Sandy Berger tried to cover up with his botched document destruction. Clinton has a lot to hide.

And the Peter Principle has proved itself in Pelosi’s case when she kept her high-IQ Jane Harmon off the Intel Cte Chair cuz Jane had brains and Nancy don’t. Ditto her preference for delirium-tremens victim Murtha over Steny Hoyer for Whip.

Gresham’s Law works overtime in the Dem Caucus and the Dem leadership is in a race to the bottom.

How long the MSM will applaud NP’s incompetent pratfalls remains the queston. The WaPo has some residual integrity, but the NYT and LAT lag behind in this respect.

Apr 5, 2007 - 12:03 pm 7. photoncourier.blogspot.com:

As Sister Toldjah said, watching Democrats try to do diplomacy is like witnessing a room full of cats in a barking class trying to make it through the first day.

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2007/03/30/why-is-nancy-pelosi-going-to-syria/

Apr 5, 2007 - 12:49 pm 8. Buddy Larsen:

Maybe next she’ll head south and tell the Janjaweed to calm down and then stop off at the Kremlin and ask Putin if he’s heard that the Cold War is supposed to be over with. And oh yes, while she’s running errands, why not go collect those NoKo bombs, and find bin Laden?

Apr 5, 2007 - 12:55 pm 9. Rosemary:

The NYT is not covering this on the front page because they agree with her. They have not a clue.

Apr 5, 2007 - 1:15 pm 10. Buddy Larsen:

It’s like “Lost in Space” starring the Sopranos.

Apr 5, 2007 - 1:40 pm 11. gk:

Well, this was telegraphed by that grand horses *ss Howard Dean when he proclaimed last week the dems would “reach out” on the world stage and reassure them the democrats would be in charge in the white house. What is so sad is they can’t see far ahead enough to were this will all lead. Amateurs…all of them.

Apr 5, 2007 - 2:21 pm 12. Jamie Irons:

It’s like “Lost in Space” starring the Sopranos…

Ah, Buddy…Why can’t I come up with a line like that!!!?

Jamie Irons

Apr 5, 2007 - 2:24 pm 13. Buddy Larsen:

Dunno, Jamie–possibly because you’re busy curing human beings, and I’m busy watching televison sitcom reruns?

Apr 5, 2007 - 2:33 pm 14. Terrye:

Buddy:

Sad but true. Hey, maybe Reid could get some mob boss {he knows them all} to make Assad an offer he can’t refuse.

Apr 5, 2007 - 2:34 pm 15. JohnH:

Nancy Pelosi is our own age’s Margaret Dumont:

Groucho: You might think me a sentimental old fluff, but would you mind giving me a lock of your hair?
Dumont (smitten): A lock of my hair? Why, I had no idea that you …
Groucho: You’re getting off easy. I was going to ask for the whole wig!

Substitute “scarf” for “wig” and you’re there.

Apr 5, 2007 - 3:39 pm 16. Plainslow:

I think Bush told the Irainians either give the 15 British soldiers back, or Nancy flys there next.

Apr 5, 2007 - 4:03 pm 17. heather:

is it just me or does Nancy look goofier as each day being “The World’s Most Powerful Woman’???

Just take a look at her happy smile as she walks with some Saudi guy (on Drudge). She is paying attention to nothing, absolutely nothing, except her own gladsome joy at being So Powerful!!!

This is consistent with her first concern as “Madame Speaker”: she got a bigger office!!! She got any one she wanted!!! Yayyyy!

Apr 5, 2007 - 4:33 pm 18. Barrett:

You have to wonder why and how Pelosi can botch not only the headline soundbite, but also miss the major supporting points.

It must be because the Dems mostly get a free pass from the MSM on the their continual stream of contradictions.

They change positions (e.g. I voted for the war before I voted against the war; we will never cut and run to let’s cut and run, etc.), tell half truths and lots of little white lies. Or in the case of Diane Feinstein, line her husband’s pockets with our tax dollars.

There is no need to be consistent or coherent.

However, the thugs of the world like Assad and Ahmadinejad listen to the details because they plan to exploit the mistakes for their advantage.

And do you think Israel was wondering when Pelosi was running her mouth? Instead of dropping a bomb on Damascus and getting rid of two enemies, they showed restraint and issued a clarifying statement. Wow!

While there are plenty of knuckleheads in the Republican party, will someone again tell me why anyone votes for such clowns?

Hey, Buddy. I am with Jamie. It’s like “Lost in Space” starring the Sopranos. What an image!

Apr 5, 2007 - 4:45 pm 19. stu:

I’m voting for daveinboca for the most entertaining comment. Nancy should serve as the basis for next season’s hit sitcom. Roger,you would have a field day writing those scripts.

Apr 5, 2007 - 5:07 pm 20. tioedong:

Tom Lantos went with Pelosi. The NYTimes article says he brought up Israel to the Syrians…
Good cop bad cop?
Anything in the California press about Lantos?

Apr 5, 2007 - 5:48 pm 21. ShoreMark:

“She is paying attention to nothing, absolutely nothing, except her own gladsome joy at being So Powerful!!!”

That’s exactly the impression I got from that shot Heather.

That she actually believes she is “all powerful” is the most disconcerting of all; it’s all about her, the country be damned.

Apr 5, 2007 - 7:20 pm 22. Barrett:

ShoreMark,

Pride comes before the fall. Or to use a modern phrase from Andy Grove, only the paranoid survive.

Good leaders serve their constituents and lead by doing the right thing. Bad leaders believe the opposite – that the people are their to serve them.

It’s not hard to see where Pelosi is. Ugh!

Apr 5, 2007 - 9:38 pm 23. TomTom:

Wonderfully on-the-money remarks and humor.
But–SIGH– it would be (maybe) tolerable if Nancy, Howard and their minions were simply stupid. But it is all about Follow The Money and the Dem Aristocrats. Is it too much to hope the American Idol-watching electorate will realize this as well as we do? I dunno.

Apr 5, 2007 - 9:49 pm 24. Mark:

Nancy Pelosi, Envoy.

Apr 6, 2007 - 8:29 am 25. Buddy Larsen:

LOL –me too, the whole thing has been reminding me of Mars Attacks –black comedy about TEOTWAWKI via Assad-like critters vs applied ostrich politics.

Apr 6, 2007 - 9:33 am 26. promoguy:

I understand that USA Today, today commented on the stupidity of her trip.

I guess along with the WaPo article Republican campaign material is starting to flow into the RNC on the dangers of the Dems.

Damn, I hope they use it.

Apr 6, 2007 - 11:32 am 27. Buddy Larsen:

The USA Today story is very solid. Brief, too. There’s also some answers for the upthread question about Lantos, too. (snip)

Also along was House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., who said the meeting was “only the beginning of our constructive dialogue with Syria, and we hope to build on this visit.” That suggested Democrats are going beyond unobjectionable fact-finding and getting-to-know-you conversation into something closer to negotiations, undermining U.S. diplomacy.

If there’s any justification for Pelosi’s trip, it is that foreign travel by members of Congress is important. Many come to office with little knowledge of the world and soon need to make important decisions about it. This was starkly evident in December when the congressman Pelosi chose to head the critical House Intelligence Committee revealed that he didn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites

Apr 6, 2007 - 1:57 pm 28. Buddy Larsen:

Yep, the world as just another ward, and the patronage always goes to the loyal ward-heelers. If they don’t know what they’re doing, so what–it’s a lesser consideration.

Case in point: dumping Harmon, who actually has a brain & uses it.

So, a Carter-sized disaster is brewing.

Antidote, as promoguy says, help the live-in-the-moment folks learn to comprehend “cause-and-effect”. Point out the effect of Carter, so that it doesn’t just seem like it was “shit happens” destiny.

It was destiny only in the sense that our “oh, whatever” decade or two made it so.

Apr 6, 2007 - 2:11 pm 29. dclydew:

Well, I don’t think anyone would label me a Bush loyalist (I think people here usually label me as crazy… but that’s not technically the same thing). However, Pelosi seems to be making some very bad decisions here. If the democrats had been smart (I know, an oxymoron) they would have simply stymied the Presidents less than Constitutionally clear actions and left the war in his hands. The war isn’t gonna be better come 2008 no matter who is doing our foreign policy. They should have kept themselves blameless… instead, they try to cut funding and go play pattycake with dignitaries that the head of the country, like it or not, said we shouldn’t talk to, even though the wisdom of such a course may be questionable.

No matter what our personal opinion of Bush and his implementation of this War is or has been… it seems pretty obvious than a majority of Americans think he’s not doing a very good job. Left alone, he would have probably sunk an even larger number of Republicans and guaranteed that the House, Senate and White House would be run by Democrats for at least the next 4 years. If Pelosi and co keep this up… the republicans may, at least, retain some power.

I dunno why all of you get so upset about the Dems and think they threaten our society… they can’t even use a gift like this administration to their advantage. I doubt they’ll be able to overthrow Christianity, impose gay marriage on all citizens and have time to convert us all to Islam. I’d be impressed if they could handle passing a bill or two that wasn’t obvious bullshit.

Apr 6, 2007 - 2:27 pm 30. Buddy Larsen:

dclydew, but doofless IS dangerous.

Look at the world, just in the five years 1975-1980.

We’re STILL trying to clean up those five years, and may not be able too, even ever.

Apr 6, 2007 - 2:46 pm 31. gk:

I can’t believe the garbage coming out of Tom Lantos’s mouth these days (Sadly Pelosi doesn’t surprise me). He can’t possibly believe the current Syrian regime is to be trusted or worthy of persuing for “peace plan”. He knows better than that. There has been zip coverage in San Francisco Chron. on Lantos, but that is hardly surprising as he as been on the outs with local libs due to his staunch support of Israel.It is quite puzziling.

Apr 6, 2007 - 2:56 pm 32. Buddy Larsen:

Economic policy is a whole nuther question (but just as relevant, considering what Carternomics did to America), but for just a thumbnail on “mere dooflessness” in foreign policy, the last time a new Dem congress decided to “fix things”:

Cause: Dem congress signals NVN doesn’t need to sweat old disgraced Nixon’s Paris Peace Accords, then cuts off our ally (by treaty, no less), SVN.

Effect: Pol Pot, Boat People (millions dead), Sandinistas (hundreds of thousands dead), USSR invades toward Persian Gulf (million dead), Ayatollah revolution (million and counting), USSR shoots the Pope, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Captain & Tenille have hit records, the current war, the new jihad, opens against the West.

okay, oversimplified for comment brevity, but not to the point of being wrong in the premise.

Apr 6, 2007 - 3:10 pm 33. patrick neid:

what’s really pathetic is the picture in your first link. for one of the few times in her political life that looks like a genuine smile. we must all be collectively losing our minds if that woman is third in the line for president.

Apr 7, 2007 - 5:41 am

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