Pelosi Survives 1st 100 Days as Speaker --AP/NYTimes

[Demeter]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pelosi-100-Days.html


April 14, 2007

Pelosi Survives 1st 100 Days as Speaker

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:24 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.


Public approval of Pelosi has waned slightly since her initial honeymoon, according to an AP-Ipsos poll conducted April 2-4. Overall, 46 percent said they approved of how Pelosi was handling her job, compared with 51 percent in mid-January, while 44 percent disapproved, compared with 35 percent in mid-January.

''She is not easily intimidated, and I think that when you deal with the White House and Karl Rove's people you cannot be a shrinking violet,'' said Rutgers political science professor Ross Baker. ''And she certainly is not that.''....Pelosi... and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid head toward confrontation with the White House over the Iraq troop bill. Their meeting with Bush is scheduled for Wednesday.

Other upcoming priorities for House action including lobbying, ethics and election reform bills and legislation to fund more teachers and simplify taxpaying. Pelosi hopes to have a global warming bill ready before the Fourth of July.



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Associated Press reporter Scott Lindlaw contributed to this report from San Francisco.

I THINK A LITTLE MORE THAN MERELY SURVIVES, GUYS! HER APPROVAL RATINGS WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AND CONGRESS' STANDING, TOO, LEAVE THE GOP AND BUSH/CHENEY CO IN THE DUST.
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[moose65]

1. Frameshop, again?

Why use the word "survives" in the headline? That makes it seem like she's been struggling the entire time, which certainly hasn't been the case. How about "Pelosi CELEBRATES first 100 Days"??

[bemildred]

2. Yep, and the Democrats are divided and stuff too.

The frameshop is busy.

[bluerum]

3. Although the print people claim to be political neutrals, their disdain for things

democratic is obvious. I continually hear it in statements and articles like these. Radio, cable and broadcast TV are just as bad if not worse.

If we are a moral, ethical and humane country as we surely claim to be, how do we explain away the popularity and continued acceptance of of people like Limpballs, Insanity, O'Liely, and I'mus (aka I'mgone). I cannot believe that mainstream middle America subscribes to and approves of the hate rhetoric that these people spew. They are the precursors to pogroms, ethnic cleansing, social engineering, religious crusades, racial purity and all the like.

I have boycotted MSM products for years and plan to do so indefinitely.

[bullimiami]

4. i think it makes it sound like she was in danger of being killed.

more like a veiled threat that she should be scared of it.

i am often really pissed off by crap that comes across the AP wire. it reeks.