California Conservative

That’s what I said yesterday in this post. Now I have proof of that:

According to sources within the House Democratic leadership, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied the request for a meeting with Uribe when he comes to Washington next week. Uribe’s staff has attempted to set up a meeting with Pelosi, offering to come to her offices with Uribe if necessary. Pelosi has refused the meeting.

“She has third parties who have encouraged her not to take the meeting,” says a leadership aide, who said a coalition of labor organizations and MoveOn.org had been pressuring her to not meet with Uribe. “We’ve never seen anything like it. It’s not like we’re talking about some family from San Francisco who stopped by her office unannounced. This is the president of a country.”

In her short stint as Speaker, Ms. Pelosi’s record is one of a foreign policy disaster. Prior to this, her highest profile blunder was traveling to Syria, then telling Bashar Assad that she carried a note from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert’s response that he hadn’t given Ms. Pelosi that message was seen as a major foreign policy mistake.

Now she’s ignoring one of our closest allies in the Western Hemisphere because MoveOn and George Soros told her to. I predict that this will turn into a huge outrage. This type of pandering to the Democrats’ money man comes at the expense of maintaining vital relations with our allies. This if further proof that Democrats don’t put a high priority on foreign policy. It proves that they’re only interested in it if there’s a political advantage to be gained by it.

This is unacceptable because we’re living in historic times. Whatever happened to the Democrats’ mantra that we can’t fight the jihadists without allies? It’s obvious that that’s just a cute sounding line used for political gain. If they meant it, they wouldn’t be shunning such a close ally as the Columbian president.

In Colombia, Uribe has been struggling against communist terrorist groups financed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, as well as leftist political pressure internally. All while attempting to work with the U.S. against narco-trafficking. “He’s a friend and an ally,” says a State Department source, who was unaware of Pelosi’s snub. “I’d be surprised that one of our national leaders would not meet with a strategic partner of the United States of America.”

Think of the implications of Ms. Pelosi’s snubbing a reliable South American ally. As this points out, Ms. Pelosi would rather follow MoveOn’s orders than help strengthen the relationship with someone fighting on the front lines in the war against the jihadists.

Ms. Pelosi’s unconscionable conduct must stop. The best way to do that is to elect a Republican majority and a Republican president in 2008.

Technorati Tags: Nancy Pelosi, George Soros, MoveOn.org, National Security, Foreign Policy, Syria, Columbia

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Corruption, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, Middle East, Pelosi, South America, Subversives, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.