Patriotic Pelosi gets her knickers twisted
According to APÂ (masquerading as My Way News), VP Cheney said;
“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the al-Qaida strategy,” the vice president told ABC News. “The al-Qaida strategy is to break the will of the American people … try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.”
Testosterone-engorged Pelosi then jumps on the table (figuratively, of course) and takes offense, according to Fox News Channel;
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney‘s comments that the Congressional Democrats’ plan for Iraq would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy.”
Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney’s comments wrongly questioned critics’ patriotism and ignored Bush’s call for openness on Iraq strategy.
“You cannot say as the president of the United States, ‘I welcome disagreement in a time of war,’ and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country,” the speaker said.
And I guess disagreement is a one-way street in Pelosi-land. A no-confidence vote on our military engaged with the enemy isn’t acting against our national security a bit, eh? For her to characterize the VP’s comments like that is just specious yammering by the intellectually vacant Blinky Botox. How’s that for disagreement, Nan?
What’s all of this crap about being patriotic suddenly? Before September 2001, you couldn’t find two leftists who’d admit to being patriots that you could rub together in the entire nation. Now suddenly, their knickers get twisted when you question their committment to our winning this war against terrorists. Although the thought of rubbing Pelosi and Murtha against each other is enough to make me skip lunch today.
Category: Politics
[…] Dionne doesn’t think this is productive (much like Pelosi herself in her statement that I reported last week); No doubt he did, and those words illustrate the administration’s political methodology from the very beginning of its public campaign against Iraq. Back in 2002 and early 2003, it browbeat a reluctant country into this war by making assertions about an Iraqi nuclear program that proved to be groundless and by inventing ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda that didn’t exist. […]