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| Nancy Plays Hard to Get -- won't meet Petreaus or Columbian Uribe, but |
| 2007-05-02 |
| her personal staff are working on initial plans for a trip to Venezuela, perhaps in the fall, to meet with Chavez. H/T Gateway Pundit On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal editorial page reported that former vice president Al Gore had declined to meet with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, citing concerns about human rights. Never mind why Uribe was seeking a meeting with a has-been pol -- the story of the shabby treatment of an American ally continues to get worse. According to sources within the House Democratic leadership, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied the request for a meeting with Uribe when he comes to Washington next week. Uribe's staff has attempted to set up a meeting with Pelosi, offering to come to her offices with Uribe if necessary. Pelosi has refused the meeting. "She has third parties who have encouraged her not to take the meeting," says a leadership aide, who said a coalition of labor organizations and MoveOn.org had been pressuring her to not meet with Uribe. "We've never seen anything like it. It's not like we're talking about some family from San Francisco who stopped by her office unannounced. This is the president of a country." In Colombia, Uribe has been struggling against communist terrorist groups financed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, as well as leftist political pressure internally. All while attempting to work with the U.S. against narco-trafficking. "He's a friend and an ally," says a State Department source, who was unaware of Pelosi's snub. "I'd be surprised that one of our national leaders would not meet with a strategic partner of the United States of America." Earlier this week Pelosi declined to meet with the man overseeing U.S. military forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus. Pelosi, though, is willing to meet with America's enemies. Against the advice of the State Department, Pelosi pressed for and did meet with the dictator of Syria earlier this month. According to leadership staff, she has members of her personal staff working on initial plans for a trip to Venezuela, perhaps in the fall, to meet with Chavez. So what makes Uribe South America's strongest leader and why is it important to support the capitalist government in Colombia? From Gateway: So what makes Uribe South America's strongest leader and why is it important to support the capitalist government in Colombia? Publius Pundit explained why: HeÂ’s destroying terrorism, installing free markets, and creating a new nation out of one of the worldÂ’s worst hellholes on a scale unseen almost anywhere else in the world. The stock market has gone up 500% since heÂ’s taken office. The debt has been repaid early, the peso is soaring, the jobless rate is tumbling (unemployment is down one-third since he took office!), investment both foreign and domestic has gone through the moon and confidence and optimism is returning. The economy grew at 5% last year. Crime has evaporated. The country reported exactly two kidnaps this year. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #6 Is that a cigar in your mouth or are you just ... |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-02 23:08 |
| #5 I just hope Nancy realizes her lifelong dream of fellating Castro before he dies... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-02 22:03 |
| #4 Oh please oh please oh please don't meet with Uribe and then DO meet with Chavez. Please show the country what a friggin idiot and traitor you are. Show them that, without question, you support communism/socialism and are against capitalism. The radio and blog world will tear her apart over this. She might even get a nasty editorial in the WAPO. She is just awful. |
| Posted by: Remoteman 2007-05-02 21:53 |
| #3 Al Gore had declined to meet with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, citing concerns about human rights. If Gore and all the other liberals are so concerned over human rights, why haven't they come out against sharia law for the massive crime against humanity that it is? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-02 21:17 |
| #2 Her priorities are so phuqued up that she has probably met with the company that owned the splodeytanker and made nice with them, forgiving anything Clyde Clutchrider did that caused the mess rather than expedite efforts to get repairs done or increase CDL requirements. But then, that would be helping the little people and it didn't affect her commute one bit. |
| Posted by: USN. Ret. 2007-05-02 18:40 |
| #1 In other words, he makes the left look bad. Why would Queen Nancy want to meet with him? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-05-02 18:05 |