At the end of last week, the right wing played Nancy Pelosi like a marionette.
The right wing got outraged. Nancy Pelosi cowered. The right wing demanded action. Nancy Pelosi obeyed.
Why was the right wing so angry? A Democrat in Congress dared to call it like it is. Congressman Peter Stark criticized George W. Bush for keeping American troops in Iraq to “have their heads blown off for the President’s amusement”.
It sounds harsh, but is it not so? Is the Iraq War not an amusement for President Bush? Wasn’t the war unnecessary from the start, with President Bush’s knowledge that there was no real threat from Iraq to any other nation? Isn’t it equally unnecessary for the Iraq War to continue? Isn’t the Iraq War continuing so that George W. Bush can avoid feeling bad about himself, so that he can continue to feel amused by his power?
Maybe Congressman Stark’s exact words were undiplomatic, but so what? After all these years of profound failure from the Bush Republicans and the Pelosi Democrats, isn’t it about time that a member of Congress stood up spoke plainly, without the soft tones of diplomacy? Isn’t it time we stop pretending that reasonable people can disagree about the crimes of the Bush presidency?
Reasonable people cannot disagree any more on this subject. The facts are out there, and anyone who says that George W. Bush has not broken the law is in severe denial.
I might have more sympathy for Nancy Pelosi’s rebuke of Peter Stark if she had ever directed one fraction of the wrath she has shown to Congressman Stark to the person who really deserves it: George W. Bush.
How can Nancy Pelosi rebuke Peter Stark for saying something not nice when she has refused to even consider holding George W. Bush accountable for his high crimes against the Constitution and federal law?
How can Nancy Pelosi rebuke Pete Stark and not even support censure for George W. Bush?
Shame on you, Nancy Pelosi.
Instead of attacking those who would hold George W. Bush accountable to the law, Pelosi ought to aiming her fire at the White House.