WASHINGTON: This column of a few weeks ago - if anyone recalls - suggested that Nancy Pelosi was ready for her prime-time political role. Please add “not yet” to several of those sentences.

The San Francisco congresswoman dashed the Democrats’ euphoria over their midterm election success and her ascension shortly as the first woman to become speaker of the House of Representatives with a clumsy effort to overthrow the No. 2 Democrat in the House, Steny Hoyer. Her colleagues decisively defeated her, to the delight of the Republicans. Despite a good face, she’s angry, associates say.

If Pelosi wants to recapture the high ground, she had better get over it and understand what this ill-fated venture reveals about her deficiencies. If she does, this may be an insignificant blip; if not, it will be the harbinger of an unsuccessful tenure as speaker.

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