If you wonder what Madame Pelosi is up to think no further than your office. Or your church group. Or your club. Or perhaps even your family.

Madame Pelosi declared it is the job of Congress to conduct the war in Iraq. So she led the charge to try to set a deadline for withdrawal. And recently she made a high profile trip to leaders in the Middle East. To push the foreign policy of hers and her followers.

Maybe I got behind on my mail. So excuse me if I missed the news that the U.S. switched to a parliamentary system of government. And that Madame Pelosi became our prime minister.

A lot of commentators and newspapers dumped on her for these power grabs. They reminded her that our constitution gives our president the powers she seeks.

Here is another element that no one seems to comment on. When a president fails to use his powers others will try to confiscate them. This is the nature of the beast. The beast being Power.

The founding fathers understood the beast. They chained it with a constitution. The constitution limited the power of Congress. Limited the power of the President. Limited the power of the Supreme Court. They knew that people who love power would usurp it from others every chance they got. So they defined those powers. Congress can do this, but not this. The President can do this, but not this. Etcetera.