You only THOUGHT you'd heard everything! NY Times names Pelosi's secret master!

[Judi Lynn]

Pelosi’s Ascendancy in House Puts a Close Liberal Ally in the Spotlight

By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: November 25, 2006



Pable Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press
Representative George Miller, whom
Representative Nancy Pelosi called
“a valued friend,” has been standing
behind her for years, as at a news
conference in 2003.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — In a friendship stretching over 30 years and many plane trips to Washington from their neighboring California districts, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and George Miller have become so close that, as colleagues say, they finish each others’ sentences.

So it was not surprising that, when Mrs. Pelosi faced the first test of her role as speaker-elect of the House of Representatives, Mr. Miller was in the background, pushing her to back Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania to replace her as Democratic leader over the more centrist candidate, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, who had been her No. 2 for four years.

In the week since Mr. Hoyer won the position, Democratic leaders have played down any disharmony created by the leadership struggle. But Mr. Miller’s role raised fears that after carefully nudging her party to the center, which many say helped the Democrats retake the majority, Mrs. Pelosi would let her liberal allies have too much influence.

In the concerns of some Democrats — and the I-told-you-so’s of some Republicans — Mr. Miller represents Mrs. Pelosi’s true liberal soul, and his pushing for Mr. Murtha a sign that the far left would dominate and destabilize the Democrats, after they have emerged from 12 years in the minority.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/us/politics/25miller.html?ref=us



"Oooooh, that's real scary, keeeeds!"
So now Nancy Pelosi doesn't have a mind of her own, and is being guided, without her knowledge, by a terrifying Svengali figure hovering just behind her at all times, like Dick Cheney!

[Hugin]

1. So?

This is so obviously yet another part of an ongoing smear campaign...

"I told you that liberal was LIBERAL!"

Same old song. :eyes:

[rpannier]

2. self delete

[lapfog_1]

4. Well, it's still the bay area

and you know that we are all far lefties and gays out here!

California - the land of fruits, nuts, and flakes.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[lapfog_1]

3. This is such a load of crap...

Murtha was hardly a "far left" liberal. If anything, he was more "middle" to conservative than Steny is. The only thing that Murtha was more "leftist" (or rather, realist) on was the failed war in Iraq. So if Iraq is what determines whether someone is left or right now, then it is a damn shame that we didn't push all the way to the left. The war is lost, we will be lucky to leave without sustaining significant casualties (in the hundreds to thousands) if we don't leave now. The militias are getting stronger and stronger and more bold every day, it's a civil war between Sunni and Shia and we are stuck the middle. And it's only idiots like this Zernike person that want us to "stay the course" or some other policy that leaves us there for the foreseeable future.

[Hugin]

7. The strange thing about this article...

If one were to remove the interspersed vitriol it would actually be very complimentary of
Miller and Pelosi.

It's just loaded with RW 'Code Words and Phrases'... For instance they go out of their way to prove
that they are 'LIBERAL' because they supported Murtha?!?!?!

and

Miller formed a nonpartisan coalition to overturn Chenobush's trying to fix N.O. 'on the cheap'.

That's what is wrong with Miller... He was successful at holding Chenobush accountable for their
malfeasance.

Makes him a DANGEROUS guy.

As to Pelosi possibly listening to Miller... Smart people have smart advisers. Something
they hoped we'd forgotten about with an administration full of inexperienced inept Bushbots.

[xchrom]

5. what happened to the positve descriptions of miller

getting along with bush for programs like ''no child left behind''?

oh that's right -- bush fucked it up and dems won in november.

the times is one fucked up paper.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Agreed. n/t

[gumby]

8. The NYT's 'role raised fears' of undermining democracy in the US.

In the concerns of some Democrats — and the I-told-you-so’s of some Republicans, the NYTs role in dividing the country, using any excuse represent the NYT's true totalitarian soul.

[Joe Bacon]

9. More Republican propaganda from THE SCREW YORK TIMES

The only person who tells the truth at the Times is Krugman.

Everyone else is a liar like Ad Nags or a Johnny come lately like Frank Rich.