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Nancy Pelosi, the first Woman to wield the gavel as Speaker of the House will kick-off the DNC tonight. As a San Francisco liberal politician, Pelosi delivers to the Party the favored power behind the Speaker’s position through control of the legislative agenda.

It is the afore mentioned power that enabled her to stop Republicans from opening up the US coastal waters to offshore drilling. She stopped the vote from taking place and, as many Republicans have done before her, left Washington for the summer recess.

Although Republicans cried like babies, Pelosi saved us all from reckless drilling in the pristine waters off the coastal waters of California, the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and Anwar. It’s to be noted that McCain’s reversed his previous, long held position not to drill in Anwar and suddenly announced a new policy to “drill everywhere.”

Pelosi is a leader who is willing to stop John McCain, take it on the chin and in the polls in order to stand up to big oil lobbyists and the exorbitant greed and profit lust of the likes of Exxon.