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...most Americans didn’t know who Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was before this election, they will come to know her very well over the next few weeks. After nearly four years as minority leader of the House of Representatives, Pelosi will be the next majority leader after the Democrats won 232 seats (as of press time) on Tuesday to take control of the House...
...Pelosi will be the first woman ever to serve as Speaker of the House and the first Democrat to hold that position in a dozen years—a period when, Pelosi told Newsweek, no Democratic bill made it onto the House floor...
During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
...this talk about change has made the Republicans queasy. GOP candidates spent millions of campaign dollars on ad hominem attacks—not only against Democratic challengers but also against Pelosi, even though two-thirds of Americans (by her own estimate) had no idea what she stood for. Nevertheless, she was portrayed as a dangerous liberal extremist who would “cut and run” from Iraq and raise taxes wildly if the Democrats captured the House...
Behind these attacks was the fear that Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, would bring what Republicans call “San Francisco values” to her new job. Such values, they claim, do not reflect the values of the rest of the country...