Nancy Pelosi has traveled to Syria and met with Bashir Assad, one of the two major patrons of terrorist murder in the world. The AP says this:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [has visited] Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despite being asked by the administration not to go.
Pelosi will not be the first member of Congress in recent months to travel to Syria, but as House speaker she is the most senior. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the speaker "should take a step back and think about the message that it sends."
"This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to disrupt the Senora government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow into Iraq from its borders," Perino said.
Fox News opines:
Apparently Ms. Pelosi missed the high school civics lesson which underlined how the President (and not the Speaker of the House) is the chief diplomat of the United States. Pelosi's actions seriously undermine US foreign policy, not to mention that it also sets a dangerous precedent for future executive-legislative relations. Imagine the media outcry if Newt Gingrich had made a similar trip during the Clinton administration.
I'm sure Fox's concern is groundless. If Newt had tried to do an end-run around Clinton while he was at war in the Balkans, the media would doubtless have remained completely objective about it.
RLC
