Is Bush not taking Pelosi's calls? Pelosi tries to reach him in regards to Cheney comments

[sabra]

http://www.examiner.com/a-578275~Cheney_slams_Democrats_on_Iraq__Pelosi_tries_to_complain_to_Bush.html

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Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney's criticism of Democrats was "beneath the dignity of the debate we're engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support."

"And you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to call the president and tell him I disapprove of what the vice president said," Pelosi said. "It has no place in our debate." Bush had previously urged her to call him when a member of his administration stepped over the line by questioning Democrats' patriotism, she said.

Later, Pelosi said she had tried to reach the president but was only able to get through to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.

Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism or commitment to national security, she told reporters.

"I said to him perhaps when he saw what the vice president said he might have another comment," Pelosi said. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Cheney "was not questioning anyone's patriotism." But she said Bush and Cheney believe that Pelosi and Murtha's "position to immediately pull out our troops would be harmful to our national security and that it is the wrong strategy to pursue."

[ohioINC]

1. great job

Pelosi is great. She is using the speakership as a bullypulpit to a degree that I have not seen before.

[rodeodance]

11. glad a paper picked up on this

[Bitwit1234]

2. Bush sure lives up to his promises doesn't he

even such a small one as to talk to madam speaker.

[MadMaddie]

3. They can run but they can't hide.....

They are not used to anyone especially a woman calling them to task...the days are gone when the can attack the Democratic party and get away with it.

[Ian David]

4. She needs to call him at Condi's appartment if it's after 8 PM

Oh, there I go, repeating that silly tabloid rumor again.

[liberalEd]

5. Bush was taking a nap, fetal position, sucking thumb. :)

He gets all cranky if you wake him up.

[Catshrink]

6. They don't talk to people who don't agree with them..

no diplomacy with NKorea or Iran because they don't toe the line. Does the little jack ass really think he'll get away with not speaking to the Speaker? I really think people are getting tired of his misadministration's rhetoric and tricks. It's wearing thin for the general public now, a general public that can see the Emperor has no clothes.

[peacetalksforall]

7. George can't reply to Speaker Pelosi about Dick because Dick

isn't around to advise George.

[tom_paine]

8. He views himself as Emperor, King, and royalty does not answer commoners

Even though these base upstarts have been elevated by their loutish peers to the House.

I have absolutely no doubt Bush refused to take her call, or his handlers refused because they knew she would chew him out and there was a chance he could go off in spite of his heavily medicated state.

So there you go, two hypotheses:

1) Bushler being King of America and Kings do NOT take toungue-lashing from commoners.

2) His handlers feared Bush would allow his psychosis to escape when being berated by a woman and commoner, then Pelosi might report the madness he spoke. Thus Bushler was kept away.

I think #1 is much more likely.

[stop the bleeding]

9. She needs to "smoke em out of their holes"

Maybe she should send notes taped to a bag of pretzels.

I am so over these guys.

[rodeodance]

10. what would Bush do to Cheney?--send him to a corner? slap his hand?

[Golden Raisin]

12. Bush nor Cheney don't give a crap

what Pelosi says. They only understand raw power. Bush not taking Pelosi's call speaks (no --- shouts) volumes. Impeachment has to go back on the table before Gonzales, Cheney & Bush saw the legs off the table. They are more than half-way there. "Patriot" Act. No more habeus corpus. Stacked Supreme Court. Signing Statements. Warrantless wiretaps. Its time to to stop debating "non-binding" resolutions. Bush and Cheney are just sneering and sniggering at Pelosi and the Dems. After Bush bombs Iran, or after the next big domestic terror attack (genuine or manufactured) this junta may start arresting "opposition" Congresspeople.