In yet another display of what has become known as SOP for the Democrats in Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi went completely off the deep end today:
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on and are ignoring the public’s priorities.
“They like this war. They want this war to continue,” Pelosi, D- Calif., told reporters. She expressed frustration over Republicans’ ability to force majority Democrats to yield ground on taxes, spending, energy, war spending and other matters.
“We thought that they shared the view of so many people in our country that we needed a new direction in Iraq,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference in the Capitol. “But the Republicans have made it very clear that this is not just George Bush’s war. This is the war of the Republicans in Congress.”
Asked to clarify her remarks, Pelosi backed off a bit.
“I shouldn’t say they like the war,” she said. “They support the war, the course of action that the president is on.”
“And that was a revelation to me,” she said, “because I thought the American people’s voices were so—and still are—so strong in this regard.”
Democrats painting Republicans as warmongers is hardly new, but for Pelosi to paint the President’s continued support for the strategy advocated by his military leaders as “a revelation” is absurd. The President has never wavered in his support of the effort put forth by the troops, unlike the Democrats who continue to look for ways to hang the troops out to dry. If Congress would spend more time on the legislative issues which are its mandate, rather than trying to take over as Commander-in-Chief of the military, perhaps she wouldn’t be so frustrated.
