HOW CONSERVATIVES ARE GOING TO GET IN BED WITH NANCY PELOSI

How many times have you heard that old adage, "politics makes for strange bedfellows"?  But no matter how many times that's been, you're not going to believe how many conservative Republican Members of Congress are about to jump in bed with Speaker Pelosi.

One of the things that most drives these folks around the bend is the sell-out of their party's principles to Country Club Corporate America.  They can't stand Big Business's addiction to cheap labor.  It's an addiction that blocks effective attempts to stem the flood of illegal alien immigration from Mexico, or to stem the flood of trade deficit dollars to China.

The list of issues that conservatives in the House will oppose Pelosi on seems endless, and amnesty for illegals plus refusing to fence them out is certainly one of them.  But there is one issue not on that list, an issue of the gravest national security on which they are sure cooperation with her is possible.

China.

I have been assured by several folks in Congress now that human rights in China is a genuine concern of Pelosi's and not just to curry favor with labor unions.  She despises the Chicoms' oppression of Tibet in particular and the lack of freedom throughout China as a whole. 

Take a look at her press release opposing Bill Clinton's giving China a permanent Most Favored Nation status in 1998.

The "business whores," the "rope-sellers," one Congressman told me, "will oppose any effort to promote human rights in China.  Yet, irony of ironies, we will now have a super-liberal as Speaker that will enable us to block any trade deal with China unless it contains a human rights component."

Pelosi will push for hearings on Chinese espionage in America.  Hearings on what plans the Pentagon has on confronting China's accelerating military threat.  Hearings on slave labor in China.  Hearings on China's trade restrictions that inhibit American exports to China. 

It will be a long list.  The Wall Street Journal will bellow in protest, the Business Roundtable just as loudly.  Pelosi won't care, and neither will conservatives in Congress.  It sounds weird, but politics is a weird business.  These strangest of bedfellows just might make America safer from the Chicoms.