Pelosi Takes Democrats’ Case on the Road

[babylonsister]

Pelosi Takes Democrats’ Case on the Road
By Alan K. Ota, CQ Staff

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began a campaign tour on behalf of vulnerable Democratic freshmen Wednesday with a speech emphasizing the centerpiece of her party’s fall agenda: withdrawal from Iraq.

At a joint news conference with freshman Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., in a downtown Portsmouth library, Pelosi said she believed political support for a U.S. withdrawal was growing. “We’ll see,’’ she said when asked whether she would gain more votes in September to override a potential veto by President Bush of any Democratic move to limit his options on Iraq.

Iraq is just one of a series of potential veto showdowns between Bush and Democratic leaders in Congress as Pelosi launched her August recess campaign to drum up public support for her party’s fall agenda and protect its majority.

Pelosi has dubbed the 42 freshmen in her caucus the “majority makers,” and the views of these lawmakers and their constituents may be crucial to her decisions in September on how hard to press the White House on Iraq and other issues. After New Hampshire, she plans to visit a half-dozen states stretching from the Southwest to the Northeast, in a litany that read like the road map Democrats used to win their majority last November.

She brushed aside criticism that party leaders were using heavy-handed tactics to move their initiatives in the 110th Congress, and linked such charges to the tough stands Democrats are taking on the war. “The biggest ethical issue facing the Congress is the war in Iraq,” she said.

“End this war. We want to do what is right. Protect our interests in the region. Make the American people safer. Strengthen the military. We cannot do that unless there is a . . . redeployment of our troops out of Iraq,” she said.

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[Totally Committed]

1. F*ck Pelosi. She's worthless.

"Protect our interests".... ugh. She's hideous.

TC

[stimbox]

4. Looks like she on the road to avoid facing her constituents back home.

She's afraid of us.

[HereSince1628]

2. Pelosi's a role model of the DCdems--support the incumbants at all costs!

Why? Cuz that includes previous winners like her!

I think the good people of America can judge the worthiness of their own reps without DCdem interference.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. When the Democrats take the people's case to Congress, maybe we will listen

Not until then.

[porphyrian]

5. Is there a disconnect between what she says and does?

I feel like there is, and I just can't get excited about anything she says. Please, prove me wrong.