Democrats Weigh Risks of Caution

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"If you look at the polling data, it's clear that people lack a sense of what the Democrats stand for," said Ruy Teixeira, a public opinion analyst at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) recently identified five initiatives she said the party would pass within the first week if it won control of the House.

Those initiatives are:

• raising the minimum wage,
• rescinding tax breaks for oil companies included in the 2005 energy legislation,
• revising the Medicare prescription drug bill to allow the government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices,
• cutting student loan rates and passing the remaining recommendations for improving national security by the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Perhaps just as important, Pelosi told Democratic House members at a closed meeting this month that the party would not pursue impeachment proceedings against Bush.

I'd say things are so fluid right now that you can't predict at all what's going to happen. There are so many pieces in play that everyone is keeping all their options open for as long as they can. It's just human nature. And, for good or bad, it's smart politics too.

You just have to have nerves of steel, the hide of a buffalo and more ability than a chameleon to blend in with your surroundings.

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