San Francisco's far-left Pelosi will lead Democrats in House by Gizzi, John "It took 26 years for San Francisco Democrats to finally take over the party in the House. But they did it." So says longtime Capitol Hill GOP operative Lawrence Casey about the election last week of far-left Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California as House minority leader. Pelosi is the protege of the late, radical Democratic Rep. Phil Burton, whose district she inherited. The pivotal moment in Burton's career came in 1976, when he lost the race for House majority leader by one vote to Rep. Jim Wright (D.-Tex.),...