Speaker Pelosi is allowed a vacation like every other working person; however, while her colleagues in the House are working for their constituencies and spending time with their families during the recess, Pelosi is defiantly pursuing her own agenda. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the Middle East during the spring recess of Congress this week. She is meeting with dignitaries such as Syrian president, Bashar Assad, and Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Our government was formed by a Constitution of enumerated powers. This means that the Constitution delegates power in the affirmative, and Congress is only allowed to exercise those powers stated in the Constitution.
According to the Constitution, the president is given the power to “receive ambassadors and other public ministers” (Art. II, Sect. 3). Also, the president appoints United States ambassadors to work in his stead with the advice and consent of the Senate (Art. II, Sect. 2). As far as I can recall, Speaker Pelosi is not the president nor is she an appointed ambassador of the president. So, why, then, is she acting as an ambassador to a nation (namely Syria) that the elected President of the United States has decided to ignore?
Regardless of whether the President’s decision to isolate Syria is a good one or not, Speaker Pelosi is over-stepping her bounds as Speaker with her out-right defiance of our Head of State. Her actions show that she has very little regard for the Constitution and American government as an institution.
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I had to read your title about 3 times, and I still feel like my head is going to pop. The rest of the post is good though, so you might want to fix the title to do it justice.
I’m just curious about what Pelosi hopes to accomplish with this. She has no diplomatic authority since even if she could speak for Congress, Congress lacks the power to conduct foreign policy. Especially when she’s publicly opposed to the President in this matter. I’m sure she’s just trying to stir up some good PR news, but is there really a segment of the public out there who will be impressed that she’s meeting with Assad? This has the feeling of Jane Fonda visiting North Vietnam to me… maybe it’ll play well in San Francisco, but it won’t help her or her party nationally.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. – While U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming visit to Syria has caused the White House to bristle, a little-publicized rendezvous took place Sunday between Syria’s president and Lancaster County’s congressman.
And though Bush administration officials have been criticizing Pelosi, it’s not clear what role the White House and the U.S. Department of State played when U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts and two other Republican congressmen met with Syrian President Bassar Assad.
Pitts is a Chester County Republican who represents Lancaster County.
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.
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/202433
Terrorists endorse Pelosi’s ‘good policy of dialogue’
http://www.wnd.com/news/articl.....E_ID=55038
I think the terrorist groups have said all that needs to be said.