Letters to the Editor
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Victoria
Did you see the pictures of first ladies on visits to Rome and the Pope?
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Calvin Broadus?
Silly sockpuppet - do you think you're the only one who knows what Snoop's real name is?
And to address your absurd post, the Republican Congress undermined Clinton's policies - both foreign and domestic - at every single opportunity.
Dope.
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The Neocons and the Israel Lobby are Threatened by Peace
The Neocons and the Israel Lobby want, more than anything else, to use US military power to enhance Israel's strategic stand in the Middle East. The last thing they want to see is the prospect of peace lest it reduces the chances of war with Iran; a war they have been working for long and hard.
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The Only Intelligent Response To Victoria's Stupidity: STFU!
Friends, as long as you indulge stupid Con loudmouths like Victoria by responding to their stupidity as if it was reasonable and worthy of debate, these stupid Con loudmouths will keep spewing their nonsensical hate speech, smears and lies.
The only way to treat these fools is with maximum scorn and contempt. Do not engage their crazytalk. Do not give them an opening. Do not allow their sick memes to gain any purchase in our culture. Simply shut them down with a withering rain of derisive laughter and blithe dismissal. Treat their lies exactly the way you would the derranged rantings of crazypeople on the subway, or the ignorant ravings of a particularly fat and obnoxious child.
If we continue to indulge these fools and continue to allow their crazytalk to infect that national conversation, we can never move forward to undo the failures and misteps of the Republican fiasco.
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That explains it sort of......
I have to say that I was wondering why such a fuss was being made when so many Republicans are going to Syria without a single word of complaint coming from anyone.
What this article does NOT explain is why the media is focusing on the criticisms of Pelosi without focusing on the total lack of criticism of the Republicans doing the same thing as she's doing. NOT ONE SINGLE CRITICAL WORD ABOUT ANY REPUBLICAN! That's the real story here. If it's OK for Republican congressmen to visit Syria, then it's OK for Democrats. The media should be pounding away at Republicans who publicly have a fit over Pelosi's visit, to fully explain why they are not uttering one single word about Republicans' visits. Either it's wrong for members of congress to visit Syria, or it's not. Obviously, it's only wrong to Republicans for Democrats to go! There's a word for this phenomenon: HYPOCRISY!
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Right on, Joe
Once again Conason nails the right wing losers. Practicing what they preach is not in character for them.
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Victoria.....
........PALEEEEZE! That was ridiculous.
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No I'm Not Offended by the Scarf
Geez....how about the hyper-sexualized photos of women on this very site, sliced and diced females (and males for that matter), dyed hair, for public consumption?
Oppression takes a lot of forms.
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Image
Pelosi's Syrian visit acomplished something quite important. It pretty much renders the Bush administration irrelevent. Speaker Pelosi conducted herself with professionalism and grace which is far, far different than we see whenever the idiotic George Bush, the contemptuous Dick Cheney, the creepily slutty Condi Rice or the borish John Bolton make "diplomatic" trips abroad. Pelosi became the new face of US diplomacy whether they like it or not.
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Congress and diplomacy
Thanks for that Wiki citation. What Hasert did was wrong, too. And it doesn't make correct what Pelosi did. It just proves that both sides of the aisle are capable of this, and it's amusing to think that only one political party is capable of foolishness. But this is Salon, where with few exceptions you can connect anything from "The Sopranos" to "Dancing With the Stars" to that Mailer book on the Nazis to Bush and whatever lame puns are created about Repooprians or Reschlubricans or CONVICTservatives.
-- Calvin Broadus
I agree that both sides of the aisle are capable of foolishness. However, what Nancy Pelosi has not done is try to set up a back channel that bypasses the White House. What she has done is deliver a message from Israel about the conditions they would need to start peace negotiations. Frankly, it's a message that would be almost impossible for the Republican administration to deliver.
I tend to be torn about Congress conducting diplomatic missions outside the auspices of the executive branch. While it discloses divisions in our country, it also allows us to accomplish things the administration could not accomplish on its own. Frankly, the Bush administration has so severely damaged its credibility in the world arena, that only an opponent of the President can do what we need to do.
That being said, I also think that anyone going on these trips needs to coordinate very closely with the White House and the State Department to ensure that they aren't working at cross purposes. The mission needs to be aligned with American goals or it hurts more than it helps.
So, I say let Congress go on diplomatic missions, but they need to accomplish the goals of America, not the Democratic or Republican Parties. If the world sees us as Democrats or Republicans, so be it, but we should always be Americans first.
I agree that calling members of other parties names is silly and childish. I do note that you forgot a few Republican rubrics: The Reich Wing, Neo-convicts, Republics, Rethuglicans, goppers. There are a lot more, but I won't use them if you don't.
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Calvin, don't forget...
Newt undercutting Gore in China, Reagan "negotiating" with Iran to keep the hostages in Iran so that he could defeat Carter, Nixon telling Thieu that if he backed out of the Paris Peace Talks in 68, Nixon would win and give Thieu a better deal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#Early_deadlocks,
Perle convincing Israel to back out of negotiations with the Palestinians being brokered by Clinton.
Democrats believe in diplomacy; Republicans seem to prefer treason.
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Headscarf a distraction
The real story (based on news reports in the corporate media) is: When Republicans do it it's "good." When Democrats do it it's "bad."
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Brava, Nancy!
The Repubs may whine and may bitch, but what she has done is right. Who cares what they think?