USA Today Editorial thinks Dem trip to Syria BAD - Repug trip GOOD..

[wakeme2008]

:banghead:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/04/post_15.html#more

Our view on foreign policy: Pelosi steps out of bounds on ill-conceived trip to Syria
Bush’s no-talk policy is flawed, but speaker’s tactics are no solution.

Democrats in Congress have been busy flexing their foreign policy muscles almost from the moment they took power in January, for the most part responsibly. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi crossed a line this week by visiting Syria, where she met with President Bashar Assad. She violated a long-held understanding that the United States should speak with one official voice abroad — even if the country is deeply divided on foreign policy back home.

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That argument is strengthened by the fact that Assad also got visits this week from several House Republicans, who defied White House requests they not go. "I don't care what the administration says on this," said Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. "I want us to be successful in Iraq. I want us to clamp down on Hezbollah."

But Wolf can travel to Syria virtually undetected. Pelosi has an international profile.

..more at link....

[Up2Late]

1. USAToday Sucks.

I've never liked "The USAToday" (as Stephen Colbert says it), it's to news what Cotton Candy is to food.

[ananda]

2. boycott

They depend on advertising.
If no one reads it...

[melody]

3. They don't call it McPaper for nothing

All the Old Boys in the network are up-in-arms about this mere uppity woman
making them look bad.

[papau]

4. Susan Page ( Washington bureau chief for USA TODAY) was giving GOP twist to everything on TV

yesterday -

I wonder in management has has a meeting with the by-lined pundit/writing staff?

Right wing management in the media controlling so as to promote the GOP talking point of the day?

Nah - couldn't happen - not with our strong media unions, not in our left wing media.

I wonder why MSNBC puts her on Tweety, as does CNN - it must be her good looks.

[fencesitter]

5. some of the comments below the column are really sad.

"More proof that the Socialist Party cannot be trusted to defend America's interests.

Carter was the worst president in my lifetime (although he didn't have sex with his interns). But that wasn't enough; he continues to travel the world, proffering his failed views, and damaging U.S. foreign policy. He should stick to teaching Sunday school. Pelosi should mind her own business"