Pelosi in Syria

Nancy Pelosi may or may not have made a good choice by traveling to Syria last week. One thing is for sure, she disobeyed the Bush administration by going there and speaking directly with its head of state. The Bush administration and many conservatives have lambasted her and their official stance seems to be that she overstepped the bounds of legislative power by attempting to set her own foreign policy. A similar argument is being made as we speak on the abilities of Congress to "micromanage" the war by creating stipulations for supplemental war funding.
This argument makes me smile. Only in this day and age could this administration and supporting congressional conservatives alike become angered with someone in Government for widening their power outside of norms and constitutional standards, and without a hint of Irony. This is the administration that everyday attempts to expand the power of the executive in every single sector in ways much more damaging to the American people than anything any Democrat in congress has done. They are not the ones who redefined executive power to allow torture and undetermined lengths of prison confinement without charge or oversight. They are not the ones who held all night congressional votes to allow a disgusting healthcare law literally written by greedy drug companies to pass. Republicans love to sit in there enormous glass skyscrapers and hurl 1,000 pound stones at the democrats. I just hope the Dems step up and fight back and that the media points out the flaws in the Republicans superficial criticisms. That may be however, wishful thinking.