The Washington Times

Much of the commentary following the House Democratic Caucus’s election of Nancy Pelosi as the new minority leader focused on the question of whether the proud San Francisco Democrat wasn’t too far to the left to be an asset in Democrats’ quest to regain the House. I think this focus is misplaced, along with the performance standard for Mrs. Pelosi it implies. Mrs. Pelosi’s real constituency is not the national electorate; it’s House Democrats. What matters is how and where she leads them.

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The Washington Times

The scene: A bright but modest kitchen, through the back door of which, right, the noontime sun is streaming. At kitchen counter stands Louise, a fit senior citizen of indeterminate age wearing an apron over a warm-up suit. She is chopping healthy salad ingredients.

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The Washington Times

A while back, a well-placed acquaintance of mine asked me about my thoughts on how President Bush should run for re-election and specifically, could I draft and send him a memo offering a campaign theme for Mr. Bush in 2004. I was flattered, of course. But I never wrote the memo.

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The Washington Times

As one European participant noted at a conference on trans-Atlantic relations here sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, had significant stores of weapons of mass destruction been found in Iraq, Europeans who had opposed, or at least doubted the rationale for the war, would likely have been obliged to concede that the United States and its supporters had a point. There has been no such moral boost for the United States.

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The Washington Times

The Bush administration put a huge bet down on the American economy, and the reported 7.2 percent real GDP growth rate in the past quarter is an indication the bet is paying off.

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