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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Uh, oh. You mean I was right?
by Rich Galen
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  • The other day I suggested that it might be a bad thing if Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House. In fact, I suggest that every day.

  • You may remember that I pointed out Mrs. Pelosi represents that hotbed of neo-conservative thought: San Francisco.

  • Some of you took exception to my characterizing the people of San Francisco as being sort of Left-ish (or is it Left-esque?) in their outlook on the world.

  • Well, guess what? I was right!

    • Dear Mr. Mullings:

    As they say in the NFL when a rookie scores a touchdown and dances around like Walter Huston doing the Treasure of the Sierra Madre dance 'o joy: Act like you've been there before.

  • I'm not that correct, that often so I think it's good to point it out when I am. Especially during the Subscription Drive.

    • Oh, please.

  • Anyway, it seems that Mark Z. Barabak of the LA Times ran up the coast to see what was what and found:

    • "To much of the country, Nancy Pelosi is the liberal embodiment of a city as crazy as its near-vertical hills. But here at home, the Democratic House leader is seen as something else: sober, centrist and very much a part of the political establishment…"

  • Get that? Nancy Pelosi whom the NY Times' Nancy Steinhauer described thus:

    • "Her voting record is among the most liberal in Congress. She gets an "A" from the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and an "F" from the National Rifle Association. She favors alternative sentencing over prison construction, schools without prayer and death with taxes."

  • Just to review: Pelosi's voting record "is among the most liberal in Congress," yet her constituents still see her as "centrist and very much a part of the political establishment."

  • If Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, her constituents will demand she reward them with policies they (and the rest of the Howard Dean/MoveoOn.org wing of the Democratic party) are panting with desire to embrace.

  • Here's a partial line-up of committee chairs who will be pulling Mrs. Pelosi to the left:

    • Charles Rangel (D-NY) - the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee,

    Howard Berman (D-CA) - Judiciary (where impeachment proceedings are born),

    Henry Waxman (D-CA) - Government Reform Committee, and

    Barney Frank (D-MA) - Financial Services Continued...
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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Nov 2, 2006 - 8:03 PM EST
    BrianR
    Hadn't thought of that. T'would be a disarming move by the D's. I'd rather have Nancy to maximize the disgust factor.
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    Reply # 2
    Date: Nov 2, 2006 - 2:27 PM EST
    Re: Pelosi
    I don't know if y'all are aware of it, but Pelosi's victory dance may be premature even if the Dems do take the house.

    There are a lot of Dems disaffected with her, and Harman may well supplant Pelosi.
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