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Washington -- To hear some Capitol insiders tell it, Rep. Nancy Pelosi has thrown herself into a leadership battle she cannot win. The San Francisco Democrat will be named the party's choice for House speaker this morning -- perhaps unanimously -- and has fixed her focus on Jan. 3, when she will be handed the gavel and will preside over an ambitious legislative agenda. Yet the Democrats' first order of business today after anointing Pelosi will be to choose a majority leader, and many longtime Congress watchers are befuddled by Pelosi's public involvement in the secret ballot election that should...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 — One would think that after their biggest electoral triumph in about a decade, Democrats would finally break their usual postelection syndrome — a November loss followed by recriminations, finger-pointing and infighting. Representative Rahm Emanuel, above, at a caucus Wednesday, asked more support for Congressional races from Howard Dean, Democratic chairman. Well, think again. The Democrats are celebrating their big victory of Nov. 7 with recriminations, finger-pointing and infighting, no matter that they won control of the Senate and the House for the first time since 1994. --- “They left money on the table,” he said. Asked...