Pelosi getting so much bad press so here's the good news, from Pelosi!

I'm sure you have heard that Bush and Cheney did not like the idea of Speaker Pelosi's trip to the Middle East and particularly her trip to Syria and her meeting with Syrian President Assad.

Even the Main Stream Media is dutifully following the Bush/Cheney talking points and saying that Speaker Pelosi should not have gone, that it was not her place, even though "our" Constitution allows this. I was stunned while watching the news on CNN and the way they portrayed Speaker Pelosi's trip. And I found that the same was true on MSNBC and NBC. Matt Lauer took his turn lambasting the Speaker on the Today Show this morning while discussing her with Tim Russert. I don't watch Fox News although I am sure they were all negative.

Here, via the AP, is Speaker Pelosi's synopsis of her trip:

Pelosi: Mideast Trip strengthened ties
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated
Press Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), deflecting White House criticism of her trip to Syria, said Friday she thinks the mission helped President Bush because it showed the United States is unified against terrorism despite being divided over the Iraq war.

Pelosi, D-Calif., met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus earlier this week, against the president's wishes.

"Our message was President Bush's message," Pelosi said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Portugal, where she stopped briefly en route back to the United States.

"The funny thing is, I think we may have even had a more powerful impact with our message because of the attention that was called to our trip," the California Democrat said. "It became clear to President Assad that even though we have our differences in the United States, there is no division between the president and the Congress and the Democrats on the message we wanted him to receive."

Bush earlier in the week assailed Pelosi for making the trip to Damascus, saying it sent mixed messages to the Syrian government, which his administration considers to be a state supporter of terrorism.

Because our Imperial President won't talk to these country heads is the reason that we are in this mess today!