{"id":2267,"date":"2007-12-19T00:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/pelosi_surprise\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T00:07:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T05:07:15","slug":"pelosi_surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/pelosi_surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Surprised By Republican Resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&amp;docID=cqmidday-000002642367\"><i>CQ<\/i> Politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Speaker  Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., admitted Thursday that she had underestimated the willingness of Republicans to stand behind President Bush&#8217;s Iraq policy despite the drubbing the GOP took in the polls in 2006.<br \/>\n&#8220;The assumption I made was that the Republicans would soon see the light,&#8221; she said. Instead, the minority stuck to the president&#8217;s war policy in the face of unrelenting pressure from congressional Democrats and powerful lobbying campaigns by anti-war groups.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;That was a revelation to me, because I felt the American peoples&#8217; voices were so strong and still are in this<br \/>\nregard that I hoped that with some compromise and reaching out there might be some change in direction,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;But they are sticking with the president on this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One can only assume that Speaker Pelosi was surprised by the Republican behavior because it&#8217;s completely at odds with that of her own caucus, which seemingly buckles at the first hint that a policy position may be unpopular with 40% of the public.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d think that on issues (like Iraq) that are supposedly important to Congressional Democrats, they&#8217;d learn a few lessons from the GOP minority and try sticking it out on a position.  But apparently that&#8217;s too difficult to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/pelosi_surprise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Pelosi Surprised By Republican Resolve\"><p>CQ Politics: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., admitted Thursday that she had underestimated the willingness of Republicans to stand behind President Bush&#8217;s Iraq policy despite the drubbing the GOP took in the polls in 2006. &#8220;The assumption I made was that the Republicans would soon see the light,&#8221; she said. Instead, the minority stuck to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}