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  Pelosi vows more civil approach — next year
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Last EditedServo  Dec 13, 2007 01:19pm
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News DateTuesday, December 11, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAcross the ideological spectrum, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dashed expectations.

On the right, the hope was that Pelosi would be the tallest lightning rod in Washington — playing to type as a “San Francisco liberal” and handing the Republican minority all manner of ideological openings to exploit. For the most part, that has not happened.

On the left, the hope was that Pelosi would lead the newly empowered Democrats to hijack President Bush’s agenda on the issue that matters most to party activists — ending the Iraq war.

To Pelosi’s regret, that has not happened either.
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