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November 10, 2006
Pelosi, Pro-Israel ?
The Dems are poised to get rid of one of Israel's and humanitie's best friends, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Now, Nancy Pelosi has set her sights on another good friend of Israel, and a Democrat who is actually serious about national security, Jane Harmon, who was in line to lead the House Intelligence Committee. As Yehudit at Kesher reports:
"As the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Ms. Harman was expected to become chairman of the powerful committee. But Ms. Pelosi is expected to pass over Ms. Harman for either Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida or Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, the second- and third-ranking Democrats on the intelligence panel. . . . The sources said the 61-year-old Ms. Harman, regarded as the best informed House Democrat on intelligence and technology issues, angered the liberal Ms. Pelosi by supporting the Bush administration’s policies on defense issues, particularly the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act. They said Ms. Pelosi has rebuffed lobbyists in the pro-Israel community and defense industry that sought a chairmanship for Ms. Harman."
It will not be long before the Democrats gut the wiretapping program, and all other security programs that have been put into place by the Bush administration. It is clear that the Democrats view the War on Terror as just another law enforcement issue. They want to go back to Clinton years, to the days before 9-11.
This is wishful thinking, it is also delusional and childish.
Look for wide screen TV's to be delivered to the jihadists in Guantanomo. Oh wait, the Dems will do everything they can to close Gitmo. They'll want to imprison these terrorists on Rikers Island. After giving them due process, and habeus corpus, maybe even they'll offer them full citizenship and scholarships to Yale.
The jihadists must be heaving a huge sigh of relief. The Dems will be attacking and possibly dismantling Bush's security measures which have kept this country safe from attack since 9-11 -- and this will give the jihadists the opportunity to attack us.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at November 10, 2006 07:25 AM
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It's not quite the end of the world - provided Bush shows some brains and spine. The only reason Bolton is an issue now is that Bush failed to get him approved by the Senate when the Republicans had a majority in that body. As for impeached judge Hastings serving as head of the intelligence committee in the House, if Bush has any brains he will use that as an opening to wage Jihad of his own on the left, with the support of his Republican base and conservatives within the Democratic party sufficient to form a working majority. But that would require some real guts and brains from Bush, and I just don't think he's up to it.
Posted by: John Q Public at November 10, 2006 10:20 AM
John Q:
I have not said that it's the end of the world, only the beginning of a trend towards appeasement. I'm not going to get into a back and forth about Bush's guts and brains, it's truly non-productive, but to lay the blame entirely on the President for the Bolton and Harmon affairs seems quite unfair. The road runs in both directions in politics.
Thanks so much for writing.
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at November 10, 2006 10:31 AM