Pelosi, defacto secretary of state!

Our Speaker of the House has now hied herself off to Syria to demonstrate to those of us of a more conservative persuasion that one can negotiate with terrorist nations, and, being more clever than the heads of those states, emerge with rock solid promises on their part to no longer pursue their nefarious ways! What a shame that she was not on board one of the planes that struck the towers on 9-11! I have every confidence (tongue in cheek) that she would have been able to talk them into changing their minds!

Ah, but we must be patient with Speaker Pelosi . . . here she is, thrust by an unthinking fate into the very important job as head of the House of Representatives, and of having responsibilities not even dreamed of by most of us, forcing her to learn almost overnight all the duties of that important position, but now, to complicate things, she must also engage in the duties that, heretofore, have been the responsibilities of the more competent, more experienced person who had been carefully selected to handle that job!

What a magnificent ego she must have! But that is understandable . . . after all, is she not now the third in line to take over the job of running the country, should the president and the vice president both become sufficiently disabled that they could not continue in the jobs to which they were elected by the citizens of this country?

Is she not brave to risk her personal well-being on behalf of the citizens of this great nation by sallying forth into the habitat of those ferocious beasts who only plan to use her visit to prove that they have frightened the leaders of the most powerful nation in the world into begging to be permitted to have an audience with their greatness? Surely she must know that daring to expose her face in such a country could place her at risk of being added to the list of hostages that currently are being held in yet another such country?

Ms. Pelosi, please come back and busy yourself with the duties for which you were hired, instead of complicating international relations by assuming duties for which you were not hired! Title notwithstanding, you are simply an employee of the citizens of this great country, and may not assume the responsibility for performing the tasks of other offices which are not within the domain of the position for which you were hired!

Do you not realize that you might be tricked into opening your mouth and putting your foot in it? Admittedly, the accomplishment of that task is not out of the question . . .

More good politicians have shot themselves in the foot by allowing their egos to convince them that they have more on the ball than is, in fact, the case. By this blatant disregard of the advice of the President of thes United States, you have further eroded the prestige of that office, and of this nation! If you think that, by this action, the world will know that you are the person who is now running the country, you are sadly mistaken! You now appear to all the world to be precisely what you are . . . a misguided egotist who should not even be allowed to cross the threshold of the office to which you were elected!

Are the citizens of this great nation upset with you? How can one be upset and laugh at the same time? Now we simply await your opening your mouth to bray, like the symbol of your party that you are!