Code Pink, the organization founded by three dedicated Marxists and a Wiccan, have turned their attention from protesting President Bush in Crawford to protesting Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco.
Using a tactic usually trained on the home turf of President Bush, a group of protesters from Code Pink, a women’s antiwar group, have camped in front of the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi here, bringing their message — and mattresses — to the doorstep of the nation’s highest-ranking Democrat.
The protest, which began Sunday afternoon with dozens of demonstrators, is just Code Pink’s latest effort to engage Ms. Pelosi, who the group feels has not gone far enough or fast enough to get the troops home from Iraq.
“The point is to keep showing our dissatisfaction,” said Toby Blome, 51, a protest organizer who sported a frilly pink apron and pink skirt.
We kind of suspected that Code Pink was dissatisfied with the War to Liberate a Subjugated Peoples when
...the group traveled to Iraq to donate $600,000 in cash and supplies to the terrorist stronghold of Fallujah.
The assault on Speaker Pelosi is dubbed Camp Pelosi and they plan to stay camped out at her home until the appropriations bill for supporting the war clears the House.
And, strangely, we agree on one thing
“Passing a non-binding resolution is ridiculous. It will do nothing to stop this war,” said Janet Weil from Bay Area CODEPINK.
True enough. And my guess is that neither will Code Pink.
But Democrats, and Pelosi especially, are getting hammered by both ends of the Left of Center politicos. Code Pink on the Left and the Washington Post on the Right (not too often you'll hear "Washington Post" and "Right" in the same thought)
The only constituency House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ignored in her plan for amending President Bush's supplemental war funding bill are the people of the country that U.S. troops are fighting to stabilize. The Democratic proposal doesn't attempt to answer the question of why August 2008 is the right moment for the Iraqi government to lose all support from U.S. combat units. It doesn't hint at what might happen if American forces were to leave at the end of this year -- a development that would be triggered by the Iraqi government's weakness. It doesn't explain how continued U.S. interests in Iraq, which holds the world's second-largest oil reserves and a substantial cadre of al-Qaeda militants, would be protected after 2008; in fact, it may prohibit U.S. forces from returning once they leave.
Additionally, the left wing Los Angeles Times said
It's absurd for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to try to micromanage the conflict, and the evolution of Iraqi society, with arbitrary timetables and benchmarks.
I think it will take a while before Democrats lose the impression that they are weak on Defense and weak in governing.
But the real question is: Is there any political group in America that is happy with the new Democratic majority?
