From The American Spectator Online comes the story of our Speaker of the House refusing to meet with the President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, who is an ally of the United States in the war on drugs.

According to sources within the House Democratic leadership, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied the request for a meeting with Uribe when he comes to Washington next week. Uribe’s staff has attempted to set up a meeting with Pelosi, offering to come to her offices with Uribe if necessary. Pelosi has refused the meeting.

“She has third parties who have encouraged her not to take the meeting,” says a leadership aide, who said a coalition of labor organizations and MoveOn.org had been pressuring her to not meet with Uribe. “We’ve never seen anything like it. It’s not like we’re talking about some family from San Francisco who stopped by her office unannounced. This is the president of a country.”

In Colombia, Uribe has been struggling against communist terrorist groups financed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, as well as leftist political pressure internally. All while attempting to work with the U.S. against narco-trafficking. “He’s a friend and an ally,” says a State Department source, who was unaware of Pelosi’s snub. “I’d be surprised that one of our national leaders would not meet with a strategic partner of the United States of America.”

Earlier this week Pelosi declined to meet with the man overseeing U.S. military forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus. Pelosi, though, is willing to meet with America’s enemies. Against the advice of the State Department, Pelosi pressed for and did meet with the dictator of Syria earlier this month. According to leadership staff, she has members of her personal staff working on initial plans for a trip to Venezuela, perhaps in the fall, to meet with Chavez.

It has already been announced former Vice President Al Gore has refused to meet with Uribe for human rights violations, but with our Speaker of the House being an active member of the leadership of our country what is her excuse for not meeting with him?

She met with Assad and he can’t be any better than what she thinks Uribe is. She refused to meet with Gen. Patreaus before going ahead with the plan to block him and our troops in Iraq, but she can find the time for Assad and now possibly Chavez, who stood at the U.N. and publicly proclaimed the sitting President of the United States of America “Satan” and announced he could still smell the sulphur.

Even if he were a benevolent dictator I wouldn’t meet with him just on that principle.

What kind of signal is she trying to send out to the world? That if the Democrats get in the White House it will be as it was when Jimmy Carter was there? Everything will stand on “human rights” and enemies of our country will be welcome even if they violate human rights?

Sometimes I think our government is curiouser and curiouser, and I can’t figure out our newly elected leaders.

Why is it the Democrat leaders in our government march to the beat of Moveon.org and labor’s drum? Aren’t they special interests and don’t they accuse Republicans of favoring special interests?

How about both parties favoring the special interests of the American people for a change?