Opinion: Potomac Watch August 6, 2009, 8:14 P.M. ET
Blue Dog Blues

Moderate Democrats may lose simply because voters don’t want Nancy Pelosi in power.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were looking ahead—to the endgame on health care, and the election beyond—she’d be thinking hard on Walt Minnick. That she isn’t explains the Democratic Party’s growing woes.
Rep. Minnick is one of Mrs. Pelosi’s “majority makers,â€