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RUSH: At the president's Rose Garden press conference today, he got a question from a reporter who said, "You've agreed to talk to Syria in the context of international conferences in Iraq. What's so different or wrong about Pelosi having her own meetings there? Are you worried...?" By the way, this was Jennifer Loven from the Associated Press, and of course she asked a typical, high school clique question: "Are you jealous of Ms. Pelosi? What's so different and wrong about her having her own meetings there and are you worried that she might be preempting your own efforts?" In other words, a reporterette is asking: Are you worried she might get something done where you've failed?
THE PRESIDENT: Photo opportunities and/or meetings with President Assad lead the Assad government to believe they're part of the mainstream of the international community, when in fact they're a state sponsor of terror, when in fact they're helping expedite -- or at least wont stop -- the movement of foreign fighters from Syria into Iraq, when in fact they have done little to nothing to rein in militant Hamas and Hezbollah, and when in fact they destabilize the Lebanese democracy. The position of this administration is that the best way to meet with a leader like Assad or people from Syria, is in the larger context of trying to get the global community to help change his behavior.
 RUSH: So the president is basically saying, "Well, look, the guy's a state sponsor of terrorists, terrorism, and they're not part of the mainstream of civilized nations. Going over there and treating them like that sends a mixed message, and what it also does is undermine the US government's approach here." Make no mistake: that's Pelosi's intent. Pelosi's intent -- and she has three Republicans with her over there, folks. It wasn't hard to find three Republicans that want to try to score points at home in some districts that might have a majority of anti-war people. You never know. But she's over there trying to undermine the United States. Now, in her mind, she's trying to undermine George W. Bush. In her mind also, she's trying to establish an identity and a career for herself. You can't take that out of it. She's the queen bee. Not mentioned here is the reaction that somebody like Hillary Clinton will have to this. It's not sitting well in a lot of places but you'll never hear that stated publicly. Yesterday in Lebanon, Pelosi spoke to the press, a portion of what she said.
PELOSI: The role of Syria in -- in Iraq, the role of Syria supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the role of Syria in so many respects that we think there could be a vast improvement. So therefore, we think it's a good idea, uh, to, uh, establish the facts, uh, to hopefully, uh, build some confidence between us. Uh, we have no illusions but, uh, we have great hope.
RUSH: Well, goody, goody! Yeah, let's run the foreign policy of the US on hope. You are totally delusional, Madam Speaker. Do you think Bashar Assad has the slightest idea of dealing with you as the leader of this country? You are a pawn, and he recognizes it, and you are being used. You think you're getting something done for yourself personally, maybe for your party, and then lastly for your country. You are simply being set up and used. Bashar Assad knows he's never going to have to answer you. He's never going to have to deal with you. You go over there and you permit these people to continue to undermine the United States. You're just nothing but a useful idiot! Now, this is not new for the Democrats. There is a story in the San Francisco Chronicle today. "Pelosi Seen Moving Around Bush in Middle East a Bold Step -- Analysts Call Speaker's Trip a Big Deal, But How Much Can She Do?" Her sidekick, Tom Lantos, is on page two of this article... He's from San Mateo. He's chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee. |
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He's with Pelosi (and one Republican lawmaker, this story says), "We have an alternative Democrat foreign policy. I view my job as beginning with restoring overseas credibility and respect for the United States." So, Pelosi is simply trying to repair the damage that George Bush has caused, and the Democrats have their alternative foreign policy. The speaker of the House has an alternative foreign policy and she's over there trying to establish it. Now, as I say this isn't new. I don't know how many of you are paying attention to these kinds of things back in the eighties, but we've talked about this before. The Contra wars done in Nicaragua had Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader, and he was the beloved dictator. He's a communist. He was a puppet of the Soviets at the time, beloved by the American left. He went to New York constantly. I remember a story, went window shopping for some sunglasses with Peter, Paul and Mary, well-known folk singers. I think he actually bought some sunglasses somewhere in New York, walking down the street in Manhattan. The guy was a constant visitor, a constant favorite, but we had the Boland Amendment.
 The Reagan administration wanted to fund the opposition, the freedom fighters, called "the Contras," opposed to the communists, and the Democrats who ran the House at the time would not allow it, and they passed the Boland Amendment. That led to the Iran-Contra scandal with all the Ollie North stuff. I don't want to rehash that. What I want to remind you of is that during this incredibly tense time, numerous Democrats are going down and conducting their own foreign policy with Ortega, several of them. In fact, after Reagan made a speech one night, the then-speaker of the House, Jim Wright, known affectionately here as "Fort Worthless" Jim, put together a "Dear Comandante" letter signed by a bunch of House Democrats. Jim Jones, who was then from Oklahoma, left the House and for a while ran the American Stock Exchange in Chicago. But a number of other others, George Miller from California, northern California, a whole bunch of them, said: "Dear Comandante, please forgive our president..." Essentially is what he said. "Our president is a little bit nuts, and do not mistake his words for the words of the people of this country. We're your friends, the Democrats in the House of Representatives."
After such a letter, Ortega would flit off to the Soviet Union and come back with another $500 million in funding to keep his revolution going, try to take the country communist. Everybody was afraid they were trying to establish a Soviet beachhead there in Nicaragua much as they established in Cuba, and so the Democrats have a long history of sidling up to totalitarian dictator types, even communist enemies of the United States. So this is nothing new for the Democrats, and they were saying about Reagan the same thing they're saying about Bush. "He's a danger. He's an embarrassment. He's a clunk head. He's a dunce. He's making our country look bad around the world. This is horrible! We have to do something to fix this." I remember one time when Ortega went to Russia after getting such a support letter from the Democrats. After the Democrats voted against Contra aid, Ortega flits off to Russia, comes back with $500 million of aid, and Democrats are embarrassed as hell, and they sent George Miller, who was still in Congress representing northern California. They went down there to lecture Ortega. "Hey, you can't do this! Don't embarrass us that way."
It got to the point where I kept asking, "What in the world? You guys are supporting a communist dictator!"
"We are not! We are not supporting him."
"Well, how would it be any different if you were? Your votes are the same. You're voting against anybody that would try to drive them out. You're voting against freedom fighters."
So Pelosi's trip is no different than what Democrats have done in the past: sidle up to the enemies of the United States, hold them in great regard and attempt to undermine the foreign policy of the country when they are not in power to make it. They cannot and they do not make US foreign policy. That's not the role of the House. It is not the role of the Senate. It's the role of the Executive branch. |
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RUSH: This is Mike in Cincinnati. Nice to have you on the program, sir, welcome.
CALLER: Consensus dittos from Cincinnati.
RUSH: Yes, sir. I appreciate that.
CALLER: It'll be real interesting to see when Miss Pelosi gets back if she does the responsible thing and trots up to the White House and reports her talks all over the Middle East to the president, like she should even though she was asked not to go, or do you think there is some space reserved in the Washington Post or the New York Times for a Joe Wilson-like op-ed?
RUSH: Yeah, I don't think Bush would even see her if she wanted to go up there.
CALLER: I hope not.
RUSH: He'd probably farm her off to Karl Rove or Josh Bolten.
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: I don't think he would see her. I don't think he would think what she has to say is important. I would hope that would be the case. We can expect all kinds of op-eds. We can expect media fawning. You know, it's going to be like the queen returning home. They'll roll out the red carpet. Oh, it will be huge. It will be huge. Anybody that has the guts to stand up and try to publicly humiliate Bush will be loved and adored by the, you know, DC Drive-By crew and half the others that live there as well. So you, yeah, I'd look for an op-ed, maybe a nationally televised press conference! (Laughing.) I wouldn't put it pas her. There are a lot of people that suffer delusions in that town. She actually thinks that she was elected to a position far more powerful than the speaker of the House.
RUSH: Hershey, Pennsylvania, Glenn, thanks for calling. You're next on the program. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Hey, isn't it unconstitutional for Pelosi to be running her own foreign policy? As a matter of fact, any of the Democrats that go over there to tour the area, try to whip up support for their premise, isn't that operating their own foreign policy?
RUSH: I don't know if it's unconstitutional. I don't think so. It might be. That would be a stretch. To me, it is a far more real-world violation, and that is respect and common sense. This is clearly an effort to undermine, not just President Bush, but the entire United States foreign policy. Don't forget the premise it's based on. It's based on the premise the world hates us. It's based on the premise that people like Bashar Assad are genuinely nice guys and Hezbollah and these people are genuinely nice guys. It's just that we make them who they are. We support Israel. We provoke them. We're out there killing Muslims and so forth. It's our fault. So Pelosi and her gang want to go over there and try to show Bashar Assad, "We're not bad people. You can work with us. Do what you can to get us elected in 2008 and we'll do what we can here to mend fences because we know you're not a bad guy." You know, being an idiot, being a sap, suffering delusions of grandeur are all not unconstitutional. If they were, half the people in Washington would be in jail.
CALLER: Understood.
RUSH: All right, thanks for the call. |
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