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September 10, 2007
Nancy Pelosi - War Enabler, Unwilling To Take Political Risks (Chad)Every dysfunctional relationship must have an enabler, the person who allows the behavior to continue, according to the participants in this anti-war strategy call Nancy Pelosi is the enabler allowing the President Bush's failed Iraq policy to continue. If she would just break the cycle of violence all would be well you see, our troops could be withdrawn; Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian and Buddhist could live in peace together in the Garden of Eden that would spring up on the site of Baghdad. So say the participants, including Congressman Jim Moran. OK in actuality the majority of the call is Jim Moran (D-VA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) making excuses to the various anti-war groups about why more hasn't been done to end the war. A lot of it is pretty funny. The activists sound like a bunch of kids in a "Little Rascals" episode trying to end the war by having a show in the barn. Most of it sounds like it will just as effective too, but I really enjoyed the disappointment that was expressed in Pelosi. It warmed the cockles of my cold Republican heart. Congresswoman Lynne Woolsey: Let’s start with what it’s going to take. It’s going to take some courage to not fund continuing the occupation. But we have to make sure that ending the war is not perceived as abandoning the troops. So what the triad (Congresswomen Woolsey, Waters, and Lee), are proposing ( H.R. 508 by Barbara Lee) is that we only fund a safe and orderly redeployment, including bringing the big equipment out of Iraq. So Woolsey has now set up the fall guys, the freshman dems from conservative areas who are afraid to vote to end the war. Unfortunately the line isn't selling that well anymore: Benjamin: Well, we’re trying Lynn. We can’t even get Nancy Pelosi to meet with her own peace constituents. I would like to know: doesn’t she have the power to put a bill on the floor and not put it on? Can’t she decide that we’re not going to keep funding this war? So the truth comes out for most of the "principled Dems" maintaining a majority is more important than enacting the platform they were supposedly elected on, "Ending the War". Conversation drifts away to the usual national day of action garbage, which I personally think is just an excuse for liberals to try and clandestinely institute the 30 hour work week. Especially since they are now talking about having these days of action every Friday. Nothing like a good humanitarian reason to start the week-end early. What's your boss going to say? No? If he does you can just look him in the eyes and say "I guess I am just a little more concerned about our brave soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq than you are." That oughta shut him up. Anyway... The Benjamin: Congressman, I still don’t understand the strategy. I’m in Nancy Pelosi’s district. We’re been doing a hunger strike, a campout outside her home in August—she wouldn’t even have a meeting outside with any of the peace groups—she said when she became speaker that defunding the war was off the table, so you might feel like she’s with us at heart, but we don’t fee like it out here. We don’t understand that if she can get 220 votes for some version that includes something with a timetable for withdrawal—something, as watered down as it might be—if that doesn’t go through, then why should she put anything else on the table? All in all it sounds like not everyone is pleased with Madame Speaker, which the source article at the politico echoes: Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, posted the transcript Friday on the website of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, of which he is a co-chair.
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