Pelosi Too Hawkish For Code Pink!!!
According to this article, that’s the message being sent to Nancy Pelosi:
A few dozen peace activists marched across the Golden Gate Bridge and gathered outside the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday, demanding that Congress stop funding the war in Iraq.
“San Francisco has been against this war from the very beginning,” said Toby Blome, a physical therapist who organized the event. “This is our fifth year of the war, and Nancy needs to wake up and represent San Franciscans.”
Nowhere in the article does it explicitly say that the protest was organized by Code Pink. However, a quick Google search turned up this picture which proves Ms. Blome’s ties to Code Pink:
Here’s more from the article:
The rally is the most recent “occupation” activists have staged in lawmakers’ offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities. U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel’s office in Chicago was targeted on Thursday, and peace activists dressed in pink showed up recently at the Senate offices of presidential hopefuls John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Other recent protest targets include Reps. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and David Obey of Wisconsin and Sens. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. All four Democrats voted against the 2002 measure authorizing the war.
We know how well the meeting with David Obey went, don’t we? What’s a poor anti-war fanatic supposed to do? Here’s how Ms. Pelosi responded:
“Speaker Pelosi shares the concerns of the protesters about the disastrous war in Iraq. The Speaker has put the House of Representatives on course to chart a new direction for the American people and the war in Iraq,” said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, in a statement.
“Led by the Speaker, Democrats have put forward legislation that will measure the Iraqi government’s actions by the standards President Bush himself set, conforms deployment of our troops to existing military standards for readiness and provides badly needed help to an overburdened military and veterans’ medical system wracked by scandal.”
Ms. Pelosi essentially said “I’m with you…until there’s a difficult decision to be made. Then I’ll pay lip service to you, then ignore you as best I can.” That’s a profile in courage, isn’t it?
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog