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Eric Cantor to Netanyahu: The GOP Majority Will Be a 'Check on the Obama Administration'

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wrenchwench11/13/2010 11:17:12 am PST

The things Cantor said about Pelosi at the time of her visit to Assad should sure be haunting him now. (From the second update at the HuffPo link above.)

Presenting Assad with “a new Democratic alternative” — code for making President Bush look feckless — Mrs. Pelosi usurped the executive branch’s time-honored foreign-policy authority. Her message to Assad was that congressional Democrats will forbid the president from increasing pressure on Damascus to stop its murderous way. Several leading legal authorities have made the case that her recent diplomatic overtures ran afoul of the Logan Act, which makes it a felony for any American “without authority of the United States” to communicate with a foreign government to influence that government’s behavior on any disputes with the United States.