11.09.2006

Bush and Pelosi to Have Lunch, Chit-Chat

From Breitbart/AP:

It started with what both described as a gracious phone call early Wednesday and, at Bush's invitation, continues over lunch on Thursday.

What's on the menu? "For the president, it's probably a little bit of crow," presidential counselor Dan Bartlett told CBS' "Early Show" Thursday.

Before lunching with Pelosi, the president was having breakfast with House and Senate Republican leaders and meeting with his Cabinet.

Bush and Pelosi pledged to find common ground in a turned-upside-down Washington.

"The people have spoken, and now it's time for us to move on," Bush told reporters in the East Room on Wednesday.

Said Pelosi in her own news conference at the Capitol: "Democrats are not about getting even. Democrats are about helping the American people to get ahead."

Here's an absolutely stunning and groundbreaking prediction: This pow-wowing won't last. Despite Pelosi's insistence that the liberal-values base of her party won't go after Bush's head, I don't think she'll be able to call off the partizan dogs for long. Hopefully, Bush will counter with some aggressiveness of his own and avoid the obsequiousness he has shown to Dems thus far.

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