And I thought I had seen it all...

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Originally Posted by spence

The Pelosi/Assad meeting was quite a bit different. She was there with a group of Congressional reps including a Republican to promote reform. There were other Republican reps meeting in Syria at the same time.

she was there to try to make foreign policy and was roundly criticized for doing so, not her job, the "republican" was Arlen Spectre, not sure many considered him a "republican" at that point and pretty sure he soon became a "democrat"......the "the other republican reps" were there separately on a fact finding mission and were also criticized for going but were not attempting to make foreign policy......Pelosi ended up making some unfortunate comments while there which also drew her quite a bit of criticism from all sides....it's quite a bit the same and actually much worse in Pelosi's case...Congress was perfectly within their right...Pelosi was far outside her scope ....in the case Pelosi/Obama, we have "leaders" bargaining with our enemies and not in our or our allies best interest...