Pelosi's Actions Examined

While much is being made of promises of bipartisanship by Democratic leaders in Congress, the first actions of incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggest that the reality will be quite different.

The California congresswoman’s decision to endorse Pennsylvania Rep. Jack Murtha, the House’s loudest voice for withdrawal from Iraq, for majority leader indicates that Mrs. Pelosi intends to go all-out to undermine Bush administration attempts to actually win the war or at least avoid a humiliating defeat for the nation.

Likewise, Mrs. Pelosi’s decision to block California Rep. Jane Harman from becoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, because Mrs. Harman has been too nonpartisan for Mrs. Pelosi’s tastes, tells a discerning political oberver all he or she needs to know about the highly partisan direction Mrs. Pelosi intends to take the House. Read more.

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