Thanks For Selling Us Out, Prime Minister Pelosi

Prime Minister, uh, Speaker Pelosi at the historic Ommayad Mosque. PM Pelosi, don't ever bitch about things being unfair for women in America if you prance around wearing a scarf to placate men of a different government, or for that matter, men of any religion. Don't run around spouting off about how wonderful it is that a woman is now Speaker of the House when you sell women out by behaving like a subservient little female.

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I thought Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House. I didn't realize she was Prime Minister.

According the the US Constitution, Pelosi (or a Representative/Senator from either party) may not use their status as member of Congress to mess around with foreign policy. Perhaps one could make an argument Pelosi could travel to Syria as a private citizen. Of course, she is prancing around as the alternative to Bush instead of Nancy the private citizen - and this is something she is not authorized to do. According to the Constitution, she only has legislative authority, and serves as a domestic check to the President's foreign policies. And, might I add, she shares this power with other members of Congress - it isn't something specially reserved for the Speaker of the House.

Article I, Section 8
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

The President, however, has foreign policy authority:

Article II, Section 1.
The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years...

Article II, Section 2
he President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

Pelosi is unconstitutionally acting like a Prime Minister. In Israel, for example, the President is a titular role with very little power. The Prime Minister is the head of the Israeli government, the most powerful political office. S/he wields executive power and determines foreign policy.

Leave it to some spineless, "tolerant" pseudo-negotiator like Pelosi to sell us out to terrorist governments. Neville Chamberlain was a Prime Minister too.