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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...
Just ask Bill O’Reilly. Last month, O’Reilly called Pelosi a “committed secular progressive,” whatever that means, and asked, “Should Americans vote for San Francisco values or for perceived failure overseas?” Current Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, in National Review Online last week, asked, “Do we really want Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values leading the culture war?” Hastert’s predecessor, Newt Gingrich, echoed him, asking in a Republican National Committee...
...Speaker plans to announce his departure this week and perhaps as soon as today, officials said. Leadership elections are scheduled for next Wednesday but are likely to be pushed back to closer to the deadline under party rules, which...
...Hastert had long planned not to seek reelection to his House seat in 2008. His officials biography says he is the first Republican Speaker in more than a century and one of only two Republicans to preside over consecutive electoral seat gains in the U.S House of Representatives, and is also one of two Republicans to be reelected Speaker for four consecutive terms...
...Since it came just minutes after Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi called for new civilian leadership at the Pentagon, the announcement of Rumsfeld's firing might be seen as an act of political expediency, a sacrificial offering to the newly powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill. And it was. But the truly expedient thing to do - the move that might actually have helped Bush and congressional Republicans when it mattered, before Election Day - would have been to fire Rumsfeld last week, last month or last year...