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Pelosi surprises critics, gives GOP little ammo
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 03, 2003 05:18pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Thursday, July 3, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republicans were thrilled after last fall's election to tighten their grip on the House of Representatives. Rapture, however, was to come a week later when devastated House Democrats picked a diminutive grandmother from Northern California to be their new leader.
To ecstatic Republicans, she was simply, and derisively, ''San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi.''
But six months after she was sworn in as the highest-ranking woman in congressional history, Pelosi (pronounced puh-LO-see) has surprised critics in both parties who had predicted this daughter of a Baltimore ward boss would lead Democrats over the ideological brink to political irrelevancy.
Instead, she has earned grudging respect. While she talks tough on tax cuts and prescription drugs, she has left harsh criticism of the administration's Iraq (news - web sites) policy to others. It's a careful approach, observers say, more suited to leading a national party than to representing one of the country's most liberal congressional districts. It's also one that has given Republicans little new fodder for their fundraising appeals; they are forced to cite Pelosi's past statements before she became leader. |
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