Everytime the Democrats disagree with Bush Joe Lieberman defend Bush and criticze the Democrats. The people of Conn. put Lieberman in office as an independent, but Lieberman is just a keep it on the down low Repubican. Indeependents and Democrats in Conn. should be outrage over his behavior.

I agree with Independent Senator Joe Lieberman 100% with respect to Pelosi's trip. This is a Republic, not anarchic somalian type set-up. When the government acts officially, its functioning according to the Constitution and international rules to follow and no individual should officially speak contrary to the government's official stance; What a mistake! What a disappointment! She should resign.

What about the Republican senators who went also? Are they being blasted out by President Bush?

There goes holy Joe showing his neocon stripes again! Never mind the fact that Pelosi did exactly what the Iraq Study Group recommends... if the Bushies won't engage, somebody has to!

one has to wonder if R. Richard Fusilier was calling for gingrich's resignation when newt went to china, undermining the clinton administration's position.

I think she is right for speaker of the house. She has shown more leadership in a couple of months than this administration has(period) It's really amazing no one has mentioned IMPEACHMENT. Maybe if Bush cheated on Laura, that would do it.

first of all...to those of you who love yelling about this issue but don't actually pay attention to those littel details called facts...Pelosi spoke with the Syrians adn reiterated the admin. and American stance....the conservatives just dont want anyone besides them doing anything related to foreign policy, even if they are in line with them, because THEY want to be seen as the party protecting us...its a political issue!...Pelosi's position is the same as the administration's...the admin. believes no one should meet with the syrians but that is wehre they are wrong....THEY should meet with them...tis what this nation wants, like Specter said, Pelosi did the right thing, while the Bushies are sitting in the corner crying like babies and not doing anythijg to fix a broken situation!

It was silly of the White House to make a media event out of criticizing Pelosi when so many GOP and Dem members have visited Syria this year.

Do the people of Connecticut feel like Joe is trying to represent their views, or the views some other group?

Third parties with no official foreign status or authority will be how World War III will start, with he said she said. It opened the door for anybody to declare themselves a diplomat. Some countries get offended very easily and kaboom! Where will the first bomb go? Walk softly when the ego is bigger than the past experience!

I've been reading a lot lately about how important it is to stand united, and that Ms. Pelosi's trip sends out the wrong message: that the US leadership is divided and have different agendas?

It's true.

I'm pretty sure that the rest of the world knows there is no unity here. I could be wrong, but I don't think that I am.

Lieberman, who gives a flying fig what you believe? And just what right does the White House have to forbid former President Jimmy Carter from going to Syria to pay a visit with the Syrian president, whom he has known since he was a college student?

Here we go again! The idiots on Pennsyvania avenue think they have all the answers, bu as soon as progressive decidees to do something a bout it they scream bloody murder. How can you solve a problem with your so-called enemy if you don't speak to them.Is there anyone in the replublican party an expert in osmosis? If so please DO SOMETHING

Thank God for Nancy Pelosi. Most American citizens and politically-minded people around the world are well aware that our (so-called) President has long suffered from an historically low approval rating. Ergo, he doesn't “represent” - doesn't speak for the vast majority of us. What a brilliant system that accommodates such faults with grace, so long as a person of vision and courage has the wherewithal to oblige it. How relieved I am that the new Speaker applied her indisputable political savvy to work within the framework of our nation's Constitution to check some of the deplorable failures of this Whitehouse. It is a grand testimonial to the ingenuity of our form of government that, thanks to the office of Speaker of the House and to the personal merits of Nancy Pelosi, diplomacy has been recovered.

Cheating on Laura? What do you think he has had Condi at the ranch doing for these years? A black women in that part of the country does not use the front door in homes like the Bush's. Now that he has started drinking again and further lost touch with his handlers instructions, he might as well get some on the side. It's not like he is involved with any policy anyway. Chaney has run the show since they bought the election in 2000. Since W does not know how to lead and won't get out of the way, he had best learn to follow. And doing from behind a woman should be natural to him by now. But instead, get ready for his attack on Iran and the impeachment that follows.

Have any of you ever studied the Middle East or the complexity of the situation? If you had, then you would no that it was a great mistake for Ms. Pelosi to travel to Syria. She has now demonstrated that she is more steadfast on self-image than the greater interests of the United States.

I think Lieberman and Bush are drinking from the same fountain. The "Fountain of Men Who Do Not Live In The Real World". Are they somehow related and we just haven't been informed? Talk about two peas in a pod, and a rotten pod at that.

Ron