Get a clue.
You don't get ahead in politics by accident. Karl Rove knows this. Dick Morris knows this. You've got to be a real hardball player with balls of steel.
Apparently, Nancy Pelosi has what it takes. And the Murtha / Hoyer fight? It'll end, be forgotten, and the Dems will focus on 08.
You don't get ahead in politics by accident. Karl Rove knows this. Dick Morris knows this. You've got to be a real hardball player with balls of steel.
Apparently, Nancy Pelosi has what it takes. And the Murtha / Hoyer fight? It'll end, be forgotten, and the Dems will focus on 08.
NYO The big secret here—at least outside the Capitol—is what an adept inside player the incoming Speaker actually is. Indeed, few seem to appreciate the singular position of dominance within the Democratic caucus into which she has masterfully maneuvered herself.
Part of the problem is image. Republicans have every reason to push the Pelosi-as-left-coast-sophisticate angle; it stirs up their base and loosens their donors’ wallets, and it long ago forced Ms. Pelosi to travel to Republican-leaning House districts only under cover of night.
