To: Road Walker who wrote (390120 ) 6/14/2008 1:45:01 PM From: tejek Respond to Pelosi and Cole need to be horse whipped. Of course its not the Speaker's job to get more Dems in Congress and of course, its Congress responsibility to second guess the president, Cole's comment notwithstanding. Where the hell did these people come up with this sh*t? It ain't in the Constitution.The opposite, of course, would be to pretend to be someone other than who one really is or to have no convictions other than to obey somebody else's directives (presumably those of the president or party leaders). Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) of California, has a similar confusion. Interviewed on National Public Radio, she said part of her job as House speaker was to ensure that there would be a Democratic majority in the next Congress. That, of course, is likely to happen regardless of what she does, but that is actually the job of the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Ms. Pelosi's job is to legislate and to see to it that the House fulfills its constitutional duties as a separate, independent and equal branch of the federal government.
