Nancy Pelosi Bruised, Not Beaten, After First 100 Days as Speaker of the House

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

Nancy Pelosi Bruised, Not Beaten, After First 100 Days as Speaker of the House

04-14-2007 5:24 AM
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Nancy Pelosi won her biggest victory in her first 100 days as speaker by making peace among her own House Democrats. Mollifying moderates and staving off liberal defections, she narrowly wrung passage of legislation setting a troop withdrawal deadline from Iraq.

The Iraq legislation was the truest testament to her leadership, analysts said. The nation's first female House speaker has also passed a raft of other bills, set herself up as a visible opponent to President Bush and taken steps to protect Democratic incumbents who could be vulnerable to Republican challengers next year.


Then newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., bangs the gavel in the House chambers in the Capitol in Washington in this Jan. 4, 2007 file photo. Pelosi won her biggest victory in her first 100 days as speaker by making peace among her own House Democrats. Mollifying moderates and staving off liberal defections, she narrowly wrung passage of legislation setting a troop withdrawal deadline from Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)



Key tests lie ahead when House members return from their April recess in the coming week.

The Iraq troop withdrawal bill faces a veto threat from Bush. Pelosi critics point out that her legislative priorities, such as raising the minimum wage and expanding stem cell research, have not yet become law.

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[Solly Mack]

1. I wouldn't say she was bruised

Seems to me she did what she planned to do

and that just doesn't seem like a bruising to me

[Cha]

24. Nancy Pelosi is not "bruised" but

the coporatemediawhores would love for her to be so they write it as such.

If nothing else it insure "controversy"..the sure fire way for dinosaurs to sell their product.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Like every good fighter....

...Madam Speaker knows how to take a punch and come back. On the other hand, Bush and Cheney have glass jaws and crumple if a glove just whiffs the air in front of them.

This is what happens when cowards are elected President and Vice-President.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Nancy is rocking !!!

how much gop koolaid did this writer guzzle?

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. That's what I was thinking

How is she "bruised"? She did what she'd planned to do. :shrug:

[INdemo]

4. I wouldn't be too difficult to imagine what the AP would be writing

if the Republicans had won and kept their majority...
Maybe something like.."Republicans pass war funding bill,no strings attached" or "Minimum wage bill failed to pass"
Or "Rubber stamp congress continues to give the President his way"

[Demeter]

5. If Anyone's Bruised, It's Bush and Cheney and Co.

They are beginning to resemble a bushel of overripe and rudely dropped peaches.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Editorialize much?

I thought the AP was supposed to report news, not opinion.

[postulater]

7. That looks like a brand new gavel.

[annabanana]

22. (like a new broom)

It smacks clean, I guess...

[madrchsod]

8. once again erica shows off her dramatic style

of reporting...is it any wonder why ap gives her a job...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. Yeah, whatever, keep spinnning for the GOP Ms Werner

The reality is that Speaker Pelosi has been much more bold and forthright about standing up for the values and principles of the progressive side of politics than I thought she would be. She has proven to be a courageous, inspirational and visionary Speaker and has put the * White House to shame by showing what real leadership is and by exposing their lies, hypocrisy and partisanship.

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. Exactly! n/t

[bullimiami]

10. another AP propaganda piece. id say shes done the bruising and beating.

and anyone with any acknowledgment of reality and no axe to grind would admit it.

[bemildred]

11. They haven't laid a glove on her Ms Werner.

A lot of wild swings, a great deal of sweaty huffing and puffing, but not a mark on her.

[Richard Steele]

12. Pfft. It ain't Speaker Pelosi sporting a fresh coat of "bruises" these days.

The repubs should just change their party colors
to blue and purple at this point.

[lpbk2713]

13. The RW radio propagandists took their best shots and came up losers.

And now thanks to Imusgate they are worried how much longer they will be able to spew their hate and venom.

[Toucano]

16. This is such shit. Show me a bruise!

The house passed the minimum wage hike, didn't they? It was defeated in the Senate.

Nancy doesn't run the Senate.

For the love of god!

[spanone]

17. I hope this was under the 'opinion' banner in AP.

[rodeodance]

18. what a STUPID headline!

[rocktivity]

19. Woot, here it is

But even opponents concede that Pelosi's kept her agenda, and herself, firmly in the spotlight since her history-making swearing-in Jan. 4.

That's what's been drowned in this hit piece!


rocknation

[Doctor_J]

20. Since Smirk is on death's doorstep, and the media is 100% GOP-friendly,

I'd say her first 100 days were an unmitigated success.

[Ecumenist]

21. WTF is this supposed to mean?

Wishful thinking on the part of those with a neocon conservative agenda. She's been reaming these idiot axsholes big enough to drive freight trains through.

[truthisfreedom]

23. Freakin' right-wing-controlled media.

They think they're funny. Unfortunately for them, they're headed for disaster.

[Arugula Latte]

25. F@#$ you, AP. There you go again.

Spin, spin, spin, suckas. Your boy Bush is still going down the toilet.

[vireo]

26. Headline has been revised

Apr 14, 7:48 PM EDT

Pelosi: a Challenging 1st 100 Days

By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PELOSI_100_DAYS?SITE=FLMYR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Perhaps the AP was "bruised."