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To: geode00 who wrote (208603)	11/16/2006 11:56:02 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Blow for Pelosi as her choice for deputy Speaker is rejected by colleagues By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 2:22am GMT 17/11/2006 telegraph.co.uk Nancy Pelosi, the new Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, suffered a major political defeat yesterday when her anointed candidate to be her deputy was overwhelmingly ruled out by congressional colleagues. The rejection of Congressman John Murtha, a vociferously anti-war former US marine and Vietnam veteran, in favour of Congressman Steny Hoyer, a long-time adversary of Mrs Pelosi, was a significant blow to the new Speaker's authority. Some Democrats said the setback would damage Mrs Pelosi's ability to forge consensus within the party, would weaken her when bargaining with President George W Bush and undermined their victory in last week's mid-term elections. Mrs Pelosi, who was yesterday elected to be the country's first female Speaker, had urged colleagues to vote for Mr Murtha, 74. But 149 Democrats voted against him and just 86 for. Mr Murtha's opponents objected to his alleged involvement in corruption and some felt uncomfortable about his strident calls for troops to be pulled out of Iraq. Mr Hoyer, 67, a veteran deal-maker in Congress, said that the election of Mr Murtha would have made a mockery of the Democrats' campaign theme of cleaning up Washington. The bickering among Democrats is already overshadowing their election victory. James Carville, a Democratic strategist who is close to Senator Hillary Clinton, has called for Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be replaced for "Rumsfeldian incompetence" during the election campaign that limited the number of seats gained from a possible 50 to about 30