CODEPINK Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin of San Francisco, Calif., center, and others, take part in a demonstrates in front of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 15, 2007, to protest the House Appropriations Committee’s vote on funding for the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Anti-war protesters arrested at Pelosi’s office
The Hilll.com
Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office.
The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show their frustration with the Democratic leadership’s inaction on ending the war in Iraq.
However, Capitol Police prevented the taping of a drawn donkey to the wall.
Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of “outrage that this is all we can get from the Democrats,” referring to the Iraq supplemental funding bill, scheduled for a vote Friday.
“We’re just heartbroken that Nancy Pelosi has decided to keep funding George Bush’s war, and now the war belongs to the Democrats as well as the Republicans,” said Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. “We thought we were going to get a change when they came into power.”
Wild Thing’s comment……….
LMAO Code Pink and all the other crazies will become the albatross on their heads! Dems run from liberals who run from leftists who run from anarchists….and on and on. Hilarious
I really don’t think they know what they’re doing.
They’re the ones who sign every line on a contract and then complain about something they “KNOW” the didn’t sign for, but the contract shows they did–without reading all the fine print.
But I really don’t feel for Nazi Peeloser either.
She’s a two timing snake in the grass who is deluded by visions of Goddesshood. She’s mentally off her rocker.
I have slowly, but steadily, developed a dislike for almost all politics. The average American really stands no chance of getting into office, holding office has become a professional career, most of what politicians tell us is basically BS, the governments continue to grow to all-intrusive proportions in our lives, too many voters vote based on ignorance and/or greed, etc., etc.
It is fun to laugh at Dems problems with their unhappy constituents, but I bet Repubs on the whole are even less satisfied with much/most of their elected office holders. How many times have too many of us voted for the lesser of two or several evils. Look at the three front runners in this hideously early and long ’08 presidential campaign. Any one of these three could just as easily be the Dem candidate.
The gist of my complaint, and other complainers of both sides, is that the people we have to vote for work only to stay in office and to enjoy the perks and status of that office. Most seem to not work at doing what is best for America. They think only as far as the next election and do primarily what will look good to the majority of potential voters, even if those actions are phoney window dressing.
This problem also points out how greedy and unknowledgable too many voters are. The politicians play to these faults. The whole system really disappoints and sickens me.
I look at this as ‘Don’t look a Gift horse in the mouth”. Enjoy it while it goes on. Code Pinko and the rest of the world commies are disappointed there anointed leaders are NOT following the paid for Sorros script.
In a way it is a backhanded victory for the good guys. It also proves that the numbers of Democrats voted into the House are not the flaming liberals P’losi wants everyone to believe. They ran as conservative democrats and this is what is coning apart in their coalition these ‘Blue Nose’ demos are not buying into the ‘cut an run’ theme of the Plosicrats.
If we think it is going to be a long time for the next election, Plosi is thinking the same thing.
Pelosi is up for reelection in less than two years. She will either swing more left to match her San Francisco constituents or she’ll be voted out in favor of a more radical liberal.
TomR, that’s why I’m strongly in favor of term limits. 12 years for Senators and 6 for Representatives. Every healthy body needs an occasional purging and for congress to stay healthy, it needs to be purged on a continual basis.
Their spawn has turned on them, no sympathy from me, they deserve the criticism for wooing and abbetting the scum all these years, unless they speak out like Zell Miller it’s hard to tell them apart.
I feel the ‘public servant” should be just that, all representatives should have term limits, one term any office, then they are out for life, ineligible for political office anywhere in the land. No careers, no special pensions, no free lunches simply one term then back to civilian life. Too many voters don’t have any vested interests in the sovereignty of the nation and vote only for the pork the politicians can offer them. Most youths have 18 years of living off Mom & Dad without a twinge of responsibility plus an additional 4 to 6 years of liberal indoctrination at Mom and Dad’s expense then we expect them to make intelligent decisions, they are not prepared for the reality of the real world having been protected and steeped in liberalism from the first grade onward.
“You lie down with dogs, you pick up fleas”.
(not to insult dogs here…dogs would know better.)
Term limits sound better and better all the time.
The 2008 Democrat Convention will be a Code Pink PMS-fest, and make the ’68 Convention look like an easy border crossing.
I do so love it when they turn on their own. Let the games begin.
Lynn, yes she is nuts. I don’t feel sorry for Pelosi either. Funny thing is these are the idiots that voted for her, they all deserve each other.
Tom, I am so sick of hearing ” the American people want ” this and that. And so far it has not been anything I want. hahaha
Like Rush Limbaugh says a lot, he loves it when our policians in office are on their vacation break and cannot pass any bills or cause any more trouble.
Mark, LOL good one and true!
Bob the next election will be very exciting to me. Not so much ours unless we get someone that is a conservative. But it sure will be fun watching the left and their convention and the groups like Code Pink doing their thing. haahahaha
Jack……..Hahahahaha
Good one….“Their spawn has turned on them”
Yankeemom, I agree term limits would keep them on their toes and they certainly would respect our vote a lot more I think.
Rhod, OMG I can see it now. hahahaa Yikes!
razOr, yes, let the games begin. I saw on tonights news the lefites are sleeping outside Pelosi’s home. hahahaahahaha