Who's Usurping Power Again?

It boggles my mind that people in this country will harp all the live-long day about how President Bush stole both elections (neither of which has been proven) & how he's consolidating executive power to create this supposed fascist dictatorship... but then nobody bats an eye when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi makes an unauthorized trip to a nation, Syria, which is still listed as hostile to the US & which we don't have formal diplomatic ties to.

Aside from the fact that Pelosi went to Syria to kiss the ass of a leader who still is alledged to have ordered an assination of Lebanon's Prime Minisiter, what infuriates me about this incident is this- As an unauthorized diplomatic visitor to Syria, Pelosi was technically visiting as a private citizen but you can guarandamntee, taxpayers paid for the unauthorized junket. Which is also nothing to say about the usurpation of power & flaunting of diplomatic & governmental rules & practices broken by her unauthorized visit. In another time, she would have been charged with treason.

Now, I just read an article Pelosi is planning the same kind of trip to Iran... which I'm pretty willing to bet also won't be authorized by President Bush either. But I keep forgetting, rules only apply to Republicans & Conservatives. Pelosi breaks rules, no big deal, free pass. DeLay breaks rules, Libby gets indicted for perjury (but the "crime" he was charged with not only not being a crime, but the incident it caused, no charge of it was brought against Libby) it's "proof" of Republican nefariousness. President Clinton gets charged with perjury about an incident which could be charged as a crime (sexual harassment, anyone?) & he gets to wear that perjury charge as, in his own words, "a badge of honor" as proof of in his husband's words, "a vast right-wing conspiracy."

Let us also not forget as soon as Pelosi began as SPeaker of the House her asking at taxpayer's expense for a large jet similar to Air Force One for her to fly back & forth to her district. What, private leer jets & 1st calss air travel isn't good enough? Heaven forbid you have to co-habitate with the plebes on an airline. You can guarantee if it was a Republican who did it, "corruption" & "cronyism" accusations would be thrown around like a little person at a dwarf tossing contest.

Hail to the Chieftess!

Derka, Derka, President Pelosi