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Article: Will Democrats step up?(House minority leader Nancy Pelosi leads Democrats in planning economic policy)(Column)
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- The Nation
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- December 30, 2002
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It's still the economy, stupid. The President gets it. The victory balloons from 2002 were still afloat when he sacked his economic team and named a new batch of former CEOs and Ford Administration retreads to "sell his economic program." And new Democratic House minority leader Nancy Pelosi gets it, as she convened 150 members in Washington to begin putting together a plan to get the economy moving.
Democrats of all stripes understand that the absence of an "economic message" cost them dearly in the last election. Bush wanted it to be about national security and "rolled out" the debate on Iraq and turned "homeland security" into a partisan club. Democrats ...