re: #10 Charles

Pelosi did speak to Syria’s leader, and said some pretty fatuous things (she called him a “man of peace,” which is ludicrous), but she didn’t assure him that the Democrats would be on his side against the Bush administration.

Exactly. So why aren’t there Democrats running around shouting “treason”?
1) they don’t want to look petty?
2) they don’t want to stoop to playing the Republicans’ game?
3) they’re too demoralized to object to anything?
4) they’re just not very savvy politicians?

You can only sit on your high horse for so long before the person in the jacked-up pickup truck goes speeding past you. Honking.