Nancy had big words to say the day after last year’s elections, but it seems they were only words and her base is not happy with the leadership of the Democrats in Congress.

From a Sept. 26 editorial in the Boston Globe we read this:

LAST NOVEMBER, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, “The American people spoke with their votes and they spoke for change and they spoke in support of a new direction for all Americans . . . nowhere was the call for a new direction more clear from the American people than in the war in Iraq.”…

…”We know that ’stay the course’ is not working. It has not made our country safer, it has not honored our commitment to our troops, and it has not brought stability to the region. We must not continue on this catastrophic path . . . The American people with their votes yesterday placed their trust in the Democrats. We will honor that trust. We will not disappoint . . . Democrats are ready to lead. We’re prepared to govern.”…

I haven’t seen much governing coming from Congress, in either chamber since the last election. All I’ve seen is futile attempts to set timetables to withdraw from Iraq.

Even now, with the surge apparently working, Pelosi told the Globe on Sept. 24:

“It was George Bush’s war,” she told the Globe. “It is now the Republicans in Congress’s war. . . . This is a historic blunder of such magnitude that it boggles the mind.

I’ve heard her repeat that line so many times now it sounds like the phrase “Culture of corruption” she tried out last year so much. Is this what the Democrats are going to run on in the next election?

What if we are successful beyond their wildest imaginations by this time next year and they have pinned their hopes on a useless phrase giving the credit to the Republicans in Congress as well as President Bush for being successful?

Pelosi talked without perhaps realizing she was in her own quagmire, straining to repeat and amplify what she said last November. She called Iraq a “war without end” and a “catastrophic blunder . . . I feel poverty stricken for the words to describe what a mistake this was for our country, for our national security, for our reputation, for our young people first and foremost.”

The reality is that the Democrats remain poverty stricken to find the words that truly get Americans behind them to force Bush to get out of Iraq….

…The Democrats have not yet impressed the country. Last month, a CNN poll found that 55 percent of Americans thought the Democrat-led Congress has been a “failure.”…

…Pelosi promises that the Democrats are “taking off the gloves” on Iraq. It is clear that Americans would like to see more clearly what is behind the punch.

Or, to go with my analogy, I would like to see how strong her dentures are. I’m betting not very.