A disgusting, liberal who spews anti-Republican, anti-Bush tainted venom with impugnity. Pelosi embodies the worst militant features of the democratic party. Someone, please, please send this fool to Iraq, and leave her there with an MRE and some KY jelly.

Another total embarrassment to us all and especially the democratic party

She and Daschle come from the same cloth...Nasty, mean-spirited liberal traitors!

I would first like to applaud LOTF1955 for the courageous (and correct words) about having a clear alternative. It only makes sense for the Democratic party to go left...and it will lead to their ultimate demise. Left-leaning policies haven't worked in the past, and they will continue to fail because they go against human nature. Nancy Pelosi will push the party down that path, and that is fine by me. Unfortunately, I am from her district, and she will always represent it. I love her anti-war stance, and I will love it even more when the war is a success and she looks like a bigger fool than she already looks like. Nancy, you suck, get off of the national stage before you look like even more of an idiot.

Mainstreaming Nancy Pelosi into the political psyche of this country must be a Republican plot. If you take a big mouth and a reverence for every type of possible "right" while removing all accountability and responsibility, you get a representative from San Francisco. Enough said.

There ain't anything there but an empty suit dim wit with a perpetual deer in the headlight stare that causes the deer in the wild to realize how stupid they look.

A great level-headed woman who will do a great job rallying the Democrats, she will draw a distinction between the two parties. I look forward to seeing how it materializes.

What happen to the Americans who want to live their lives free, and not have the government enforcing every politically correct piece of nonsense that comes along on it's citizens. America's real problem is that it citizens have forgetten their duties, and demanded perceived rights that the founders never invisioned. At best all people, of all pursuasions are inconsistent. It doesn't help when we get so blinded by hate, that our thinking boils down to name calling and cursing. It's too bad that this generation of Americans have forgotten the price of freedom and liberty, and are unwilling to think of duty before selfish demanding of 'rights'.

You gotta love the Democratic party for putting this woman in charge.... I mean, if you are a Republican. She will hold the gun that shoots the Dems in the proverbial foot! LOL.... Thanks Nanacy!

Choosing Nancy Pelosi as minority leader is one of the few intelligent things the Democrats have done in the past 25 years. Some people bash her as being too leftist but, I ask, isn't that what the Democratic Party should be all about? If I wanted to support conservatives, I'd be a Republican. I am completely sick of what is supposed to be America's progressive party aping the Fascists and right-wing religious whackos of the GOP to get votes. It's time for the Democrats to start offering a clear alternative to the Bushoids and Nancy Pelosi is a promising start. I just hope the trend continues....

A perfect picture of what the Democratic Party has become.

I think that it was a mistake for the Democrats to pick someone so leftist for minority leader. Ms. Pelosi is going to become the next Newt Gingrich in the eyes of Republicans everywhere. I think it's great that the Democrats got a woman to be minority leader, but she is ideologically to the left of most people in this country. She is a San Francisco Democrat and it shows. Her views on trade policy, fiscal policy, defense policy and foreign policy are very leftist, though apparently she is not leftist enough to satisfy some of her constituents in San Francisco, who are so left wing that they are going to fall off into the Pacific! She is protectionist on trade policy, which hurts business here in this country and does not promote it in others; with tariffs, capital cannot flow as easily. One of Ms. Pelosi's favorite issues is restricting trade with China. She wants to link human rights with trade policy in China; in other words, put tariffs on countries with human rights violations. There are some problems with that 1. We can't tell other people how to live. 2. That is not the way to open up a country to democracy, the way to do it is encourage foreign trade; with this trade comes greater openness. 3. Human rights is a desirable end, but first the big picture has to be revealed; institutions must be reformed, then human rights issues can be resolved, not the other way around. 4. This opens us up to attack from other countries. Nations, many of which are our largest trading partners, consider the death penalty to be a human rights violation. Do we want them to link the death penalty to trade policy? I think not. This is just one illustration of Ms. Pelosi's liberalism. She is going to be minority leader, but yet I don't see how the Democrats are going to be able to sell her message to the country. I think it's the wrong one for the direction that the country is taking right now. The Democrats did have a message in the 2002 election; the only thing is that they didn't have one person articulating it like the Republicans did under Bush. They mostly support the President on the war on terror but on fiscal and domestic policy, they disagree with him. The issue is that there are no strong leaders within the Democratic Party to articulate that message. The Democrats turned left with Rep. Pelosi and it is going to hurt them. They have a message, they just need to articulate it; the message doesn't have to be changed. Remember George McGovern being swept by President Nixon in 1972? That may just be the fate of the Democratic Party in 2004 if they keep heading left.

According to "The Economist" - a magazine that I admire - Nancy is a poor choice for leader of the House. By selecting a radical, San Francisco Democrat to be a major Party voice, The Economist argues, the Democrats risk alienating the moderate America. While I understand this argument, I completely disagree with it. My frustration with the Democratic Party during the 2002 elections was due to its inability to articulate exactly what it stood for. Was it against war on Iraq? What did it recommend for the economy? Why was the Bush administration's policy bad for the US? Pelosi is who she is, but one thing that I have no doubt of is that she will be able to articulate a clear message.