Wait 'til all those hard-left, Bush-hating bloggers get a load of this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in damage-control mode, says her trip to Syria was a good thing, because it showed strongman Bashar Assad that Americans are united behind President Bush: "Our message was President Bush's message."
"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," she said.
Is she mad to think that would fly?
Or is it just a pathetic attempt to salvage what has become for her a personal political disaster?
Amazing what a storm of controversy - including a public rebuke from Israel's prime minister and a stinging editorial by the liberal Washington Post calling her actions "counterproductive" and foolish" - will do.
Indeed, Pelosi even tried to spin that to her advantage.
"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," she suggested.
As a National Security Council spokesman yesterday noted, "there is nothing funny about the impact her trip to Syria has had."
Moreover, to suggest, as Pelosi did, that the message she delivered - "the road to Damascus is a road to peace" - is the same one advocated by President Bush, who has labeled Syria a terrorist-supporting state, is patently ludicrous.
Her message isn't in sync with the president's - it's diametrically the opposite.
And dangerous, to boot.
No joke, Nancy.