THE DANGER INHERENT IN A DISTRICT THAT'S NOTHING LIKE AMERICA:

Pelosi Makes Political Misstep in Reversal on Armenian Genocide (Laura Litvan and Nicholas Johnston, 10/19/07, Bloomberg)

The two meetings House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended before a vote on a resolution labeling the massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey a genocide foreshadowed the biggest political misstep of her speakership.

In the hours before a House panel approved the resolution Oct. 10, Pelosi was told in a tense meeting with Turkey's ambassador that the vote would endanger his country's alliance with the U.S. She had a warmer session with an Armenian cleric and representatives of Armenian-Americans, who have a large presence in her home state of California. In both, she made clear she intended to bring the resolution to a full House vote.

Since then, Pelosi, 67, has been in retreat. [...]

The turnaround is the first major failure for Pelosi, who has successfully muscled through the agenda she set out when she became leader of the Democratic majority in January.

Whahappen? They traded the GOP tax cuts to get the minimum wage hike and have lost on every single other issue.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 19, 2007 5:02 PM