Re: "Speaker" Pelosi would be a disaster

She's not going to cry like Newtie did and shut down the government
because he didn't like his accommodations on Air Force 1.


Taylor wrote:
Gingrich: Powerful Pelosi 'would be a disaster'

JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the
thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the
House and being third in line to the presidency is frightening.

"The prospect of her bringing San Francisco values and a whole attitude on
foreign policy that is, I think, an attitude of weakness and appeasement and
surrender, I think, would be a disaster for the country," the outspoken
Republican said.

Gingrich said keeping power out of the hands of Pelosi, the House minority
leader, and other Democrats is one of the reasons he was in South Carolina
this week raising money for the GOP.

On Wednesday, Gingrich was at a fundraiser for Ralph Norman, the White
House's chosen opponent for U.S. Rep. John Spratt, the 5th District Democrat
who is Pelosi's assistant minority leader.

To suggest that "any Democrat is for appeasement is ridiculous" and "shows
how desperate the Republicans are," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said. "We
know we have a dangerous world out there," he said, but "fear-mongering is
not helpful to the situation."

The former Georgia congressman said he wakes up every day worried about
national security and the potential loss of U.S. cities to nuclear attacks.

"If you think, as I do, that we're in the early stages of an emerging third
world war, the world is truly dangerous on a scale that I think, in a worst
case, could lead to losing several American cities to nuclear weapons in our
lifetime," he said.

Gingrich, who says his decision on seeking the Republican presidential
nomination in 2008 will wait until late next year, says there are plenty of
reasons to worry about nuclear bombs destroying U.S. cities.

"Start with the North Korean drive to get nuclear weapons and ICBMs
(intercontinental ballistic missiles), then go to the Iranian drive to get
nuclear weapons, then go to the fact that Pakistan has probably between 50
and 100 nuclear weapons with an unstable dictatorship," he said. Then, look
at al-Qaida's willingness to "kill as many Americans as they can find" and
Iran's recruitment of suicide bombers, he said.

"If you have active, overt enemies who are religiously different and who
believe that killing you would be a good thing in their religious terms and
they're willing to die in order to kill you," Gingrich said, "how hard is it
to imagine a suicide bomber willing to walk in with a nuclear weapon?"

To deal with the threat, he said, "we want to replace the North Korean
regime. We want to replace the Iranian regime and the Syrian regime. We
would like to replace them without using military force if we can."

Last week, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., was in Greenville and touched on
nuclear threats in an interview.

Biden, who is seeking his party's nomination in 2008, said the Bush
administration is getting diplomacy wrong on dealing with those threats.
Iran, he said, is a decade-away threat but North Korea is far more urgent.

"The prospects of Iran having a deliverable nuclear weapon that can endanger
U.S. interests in the region or here in the next foreseeable future is very,
very, very low," Biden said.

With time, the United States has options from diplomacy to political changes
within Iran, Biden said. But the Bush administration isn't talking directly
with Iran or North Korea, he said.

"Since when was America was so weak that we have to fear talk?" Biden said.

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