The Absurd Report

As the new House majority caucus prepared to pick its leadership today, Democrats were trying to make the best of the inevitability of Nancy Pelosi as the party’s first speaker in a dozen years. They have put out the word that she was really not serious in endorsing Rep. John Murtha for majority leader. But how much effort she has exerted for her longtime ally is irrelevant.

The damage to her was irrevocable when she wrote her colleagues last weekend urging them to pick Murtha over Rep. Steny Hoyer. Close associates of Hoyer say her letter stunned him, and he was not alone. While Pelosi had made clear she would vote for Murtha, the public endorsement was unexpected.

Pelosi’s apologists stress that this is not a public campaign but that her endorsement is pro forma. Nevertheless, the letter is taken seriously within the Democratic Caucus, including Hoyer and his close associates.

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