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Could it be? Less than two weeks from the inspiring images of the inaugural, has Pres. Obama let the focus of power slip to . . . Nancy Pelosi? So reported Wall Street Journal editorial board member Holman Jenkins on this evening’s Journal Editorial Report on Fox News Channel. Jenkins presented the news not as his own critique, but as the opinion of erstwhile Obama supporters on Wall Street. JER host Paul Gigot elicited the stunning response with a question playing off a comment by Mary Anastasia O’Grady about the paucity of truly stimulative measures in the supposed stimulus plan....

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) told a group of Democratic moderates on Tuesday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by party leaders was "total crap," but said that he would work to enact the legislation because Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports it. Murtha and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) are locked in a battle for the House Majority Leader post, and both men made presentations for to the Blue Dog Coalition on Tuesday in a bid for their votes. "Even though I think it's total crap, I'll vote for it and pass it because that's what Nancy wants," Murtha...

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha, a candidate for House majority leader if the Democrats oust the Republicans from power in November, will not actively campaign for that post until after the elections, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. Pelosi, D-Calif., said that Murtha, D-Pa., was suspending his campaign "in the spirit of unity to achieve our goal of winning a Democratic majority in November." Murtha's office had no immediate comment and Murtha did not indicate that he was withdrawing from the party race. Murtha, a pro-military Democrat who has gained prominence in recent months by leading his party in demanding...