Yesterday, I predicted that Democrats would throw a hissy fit over President Bush’s statement. Here’s what I said yesterday:

President Bush warned in an interview Tuesday that the Democratic presidential candidates’ plans to withdraw abruptly from Iraq could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States” and would “embolden” terrorists.

In a White House interview with Politico and Yahoo News, a president’s first for an online audience, Bush said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

“The United States pulling out of Iraq or pulling out of the Middle East or not maintaining a forward presence would send all kinds of signals throughout the Middle East,” he said in the Roosevelt Room. “And it would shake everybody’s nerves, and it would embolden the very same people that we’re trying to defeat.

Now Nancy Pelosi is saying that his comments are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Referring to Sen. John McCain, Pelosi said: “I would hope that any serious person that aspires to lead the country, would disassociate themselves from those comments.”

As Pelosi was speaking, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued a statement in which he said: “The tradition has always been that when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water’s edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge, no matter the seriousness and gravity of the occasion. Does the president have no shame?”

In other words, President Bush nailed the Democrats right where it hurts. What’s worse is that Rep. Emanuel is being a hypocrite. If politics stops at the water’s edge, then why are Democrats playing politics with funding the Iraq war to appease the lunatics in their party?

If US politics end at the water’s edge, then what were Democratic Whip David Boniors and Rep. Jim McDermott doing in Baghdad right before the war? Rahm Emanuel would be wise to remember that Rep. McDermott said that he’d trust Saddam more than he trusts President Bush.

If US politics end at the water’s edge, then what was Nancy Pelosi doing during her trip to Syria? Let me rephrase: What was Nancy Pelosi doing during her trip to Syria other than lying about Israel’s desire to restart talks with Syria? Did she think that the Speaker of the House was part of the Executive Branch? She must’ve thought that because she obviously thought she was the SecState.

To be blunt, Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi’s comments are contemptible and dishonest.

Technorati: President Bush, Foreign Policy, Syria, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Appeasement, Defeatocrats

Cross-posted at California Conservative