A Pratfall in Damascus

The Washington Post, not known for being a conservative bastion, brings us this view on the latest antics of The Silly Party and one of its most fearless leaders, Nancy Pelosi. In case you missed it, the famed plastic surgery victim shoved her way into the nation's foreign policy arena, which is constitutionally the domain of the executive branch of government, and immediately fell on her posterior in a vain attempt to appear competent. Because the Democrat party has devolved to a level which is now beneath comedy, the witless wonder was unable to distinguish fantasy from reality on her appeasement quest to Syria. She made up a fake message from the leader of Israel, Prime Minister Olmert, and delivered it to the murdering dictator. Naturally, the rest of us were not amused. The Washington Post comments:

Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. "What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel," said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister's office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that "a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel." In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel's position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad's words were mere propaganda.

Imagine, if you can, the absolute narcissism which would be required for a member of the congress to not only attempt to take over the responsibilities of our own executive branch of government, but those of a foreign nation. The arrogance is difficult to even quantify. But this is now the normal behavior of the Democrat party. It is today a party run by spoiled children who never grew out of their childish 60s' fantasy role playing and is determined to foist it on the rest of the world in a pompous attempt to justify their own irrational self-indulgence.