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Nancy Pelosi, Pen Pal August 20, 2010 - <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.93/author_detail.asp> Edward Cline http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20100819_PelosiLaugh.jpgEven Levity can be leveraged Roger L. Simon, writer, critic, and regular columnist for Pajamas Media and other news outlets and blogs, responded to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosis remark on KCBS Radio in San Francisco that the funding behind the effective and influential opposition to Imam Feisal Raufs Ground Zero mosque (once Cordoba House, now called Park51) should be investigated. Doubtless she had been informed that about 65% of Americans are opposed to the mosque, and that this is largely a consequence of not only the blogosphere, which is doing the MSMs job of actually reporting news thats fit to report and print. It is also the result of the dedicated, concerted, and collective efforts of critics operating independently on a total budget perhaps one one-hundredth the size of her House of Representatives income. This does not include her various Speaker perks, travel allowances (e.g., commandeered military aircraft for junkets, for getting home to have dinner with her very quiet, frightened-turtle, multi-millionaire hubby in San Francisco, and other pressing, official business), a premium health care plan which most taxpayers who are paying for it could not afford, a multitude of reimbursable expenses, and other elitist benefits. Roger Simon, in <http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/08/18/investigate-me-nancy/> Investigate Me, Nancy! begs her in his open letter to Pelosi to please, please investigate him, because its her patriotic duty to, well, squelch all criticism of the Ground Zero mosque, ObamaCare, and other matters. It would give her so much satisfaction. Otherwise, he might be taken for a racist, or a bigot, or a cretin. He asks her to find and follow the money trail, although he admits there is no trail to follow. Never mind Imam Raufs own money trail, thats completely legitimate it would certainly not lead to states that sponsor terrorism and who plotted and funded the 9/11 attacks on this country. And as for Raufs credentials as an out-reacher to all faiths and persuasions, well, he did attend some suspicious conferences and once said (rather amusingly) that the only place interfaith dialogue occurs is in hotel conference rooms, nowhere else if he could help it, and that he really didnt believe in it. I left a comment on Mr. Simons article which the satirist in me compels me to enlarge upon. It is an imaginary but wholly credible open letter reply from Nancy to Roger Simon. After all, they are both public figures, so, why not be open about it? Dear Roger: <http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971> Are you serious? Are you, really? Youre not joking? I dont know what Ive said or done to earn such well not to put too fine a word on it: Sarcasm? Invective? Hate? Ive half a mind (and I DARE you go comic about that!) to propose to the House that someone introduce a bill that would ban all hateful thoughts and words by outsiders (meaning the electorate, and especially Tea Partiers and bloggers), spoken or printed, about the members here, including me, to preserve the respect and dignity of my office and the Houses that we deserve. Wed only need to dither over punishments and penalties -- behind closed doors, of course, transparency has its limits and we couldnt concentrate on the bills particulars with lots of ignorant people shouting at us all the time. Of course, you and everyone else out there would need to wait for the bill to be passed and sent up to the Senate and the White House <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To> so you can see whats in it. Of course, that would require the creation of a new federal enforcement agency, and setting aside some budget money for it, or raising taxes, or just ordering the Treasury Department to print the necessary funds. What would the new agency be like? Something, well, a little like the Gestapo, or the Stasi, or the KGB, but without any scary faces or anything. No trench coats or fedoras or anything like that. You want effective, efficient government? We can oblige you. I understand those people were very effective moral conditioners and dispellers of bad feelings, even though they lacked the sophisticated SWAT gear that exists today. So, do you really want me to propose an investigation? Now, I really wouldnt want to do such a thing, but you must admit it would be good for the country, good for communications, a necessary corrective to preserve the power and dignity of those who know better than you whats good for you in every little thing. You know how bad feelings and bad thoughts can simply ruin perfectly good relationships, and here I thought we had one, until people began asking me questions, and saying that <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyTelRaoBAI> we lie, and insisting on poking their noses into the Houses business, and just behaving like Americans gone wild. Its intolerable and very saddening and I wonder just what this country is coming to, what with all those disrespectful town hall meetings and people waving silly flags and signs in Washington and all over. About the Ground Zero mosque matter: We have reviewed all the information available about Imam Rauf and his partners and his funding sources, and have concluded that theyre irrelevant and the mosque will pose no security threat to this country. Of course, all the available information is hard to interpret, because all references to Muslims and Islam and terrorists have been banned from intelligence memos and the like, so its just your word against ours. Very difficult for you. And, besides, to build or not to build the mosque is a local issue, very pedestrian, hardly a national security one. Mayor Bloomberg said so -- bless his heart, even though hes a Republican -- and theres the kind of bipartisan cooperation Ive been talking about for the longest time! And now the archbishop of New York has endorsed the mosque, and hes hoping Muslims and Islam will let bygones be bygones, because it was a couple of Catholic monarchs who kicked the Muslims out of Spain, wasnt it? In 1492, when Columbus discovered America? Or was that later? What a shame. Those poor Muslims and Indians over here got such a raw deal in the same year. Im told that Indians contributed as much as the Muslims to this country, they discovered the wheel and corn and stuff and I think I read somewhere that it was a Muslim pilot who had a magnet or compass or something on the Piñata or Pinto, one of those ships, that got Columbus over here in the first place. Besides, this whole affront to the country thing and claiming the mosque at Ground Zero would be a victory symbol for Muslims overseas or the Taliban people, is just a lot of emotionalism and horse apples, as my father used to say. Smacks of the Ku Klux Klan and Rotary Club or Shriner bigotry. It would be a victory for religious freedom in this country, and I challenge anyone to prove to me that Islam is some kind of intolerant ideology bent on replacing our beloved Constitution with Muslim law, like some kind of sneak, as some right-wing paranoids are saying. I mean, Im not an expert on Islam or Muslims, but I did go to the Mideast and wore a scarf or negligee or burqa or whatever thats called. I admit Muslims wear funny clothes and do funny things -- not at all like the solemn things we do in my parish church -- you did know Im a Catholic, right? -- but we must be tolerant of the peculiar ways of all creeds. Now, Roger, if you want me to <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7105/pub_detail.asp> propose an <http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/08/audio-of-pelosi-we-need-to-investig ate.html> investigation into your opposition funding, I will. All I have to do is slip the word to the right people. But wouldnt you just rather I hit you over the head with my <http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http://images.search.yahoo. com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&va=nancy+pelosi+with+speaker+gavel&fr=slv8 -hpd05&w=610&h=593&imgurl=cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0byH24l3QQdZs/> special Speakers gavel? Ive acquired quite a swing! It would be so much simpler a solution, and it would save time and taxpayer money! Dont just think of yourself, think of all the hard working Americans whod have to pay for <http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/33287/Pelosi__Buy_Obamacare_or_go_t o_Jail/> your incarceration. By the way, dont write me off as un-reelectable. Our Leader and I and Mr. Reid have some pretty tricky cards up our many and ample sleeves, so well have the last laugh. And, Roger, you know how I can laugh. In your face, or to the side, or up my sleeve. As always, cordially, and impishly, your public servant (chuckle, chuckle), Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House United States Congress <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/> FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.93/author_detail.asp.> Edward Cline is the author of a number of novels, and his essays, <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2749/pub_detail.asp> books, reviews, and other nonfiction have appeared in a number of high-profile periodicals. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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