Democrats need Pelosi's toughness

This week, visitors entering Washington's Union Station are greeted by a work of art -- a two-story, red open-toed lady's dress shoe. It reminds me of Cinderella's lost glass slipper. I thought to myself, if someone is looking for the woman big enough to fill this, they need look no further than Nancy Pelosi.
The nation is fortunate, not to mention the Democratic Party and the president, that Ms. Pelosi will be re-elected Democratic leader for the next Congress, because we are surely entering one of the nation's most difficult eras.
Voters rejected many incumbents across the country earlier this month, and the Democrats remaining still need a few political giants in the Congress. Thank God, they have one in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
There aren't any congresswomen in American history I can compare to Nancy Pelosi, because none was in a position to equal her accomplishments. Pelosi, as we all know, is the first ever woman ever elected to be Speaker of the House. The esteemed newspaper The Christian Science Monitor wrote of her this last July: "Make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American politics and the most powerful House speaker since Sam Rayburn a half century ago."
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