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Defiant Pelosi scorns Republicans

Pat McMahon Contributor
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Buoyed by adoring supporters in her home district, Nancy Pelosi scorned her Republican critics Monday, saying they “have nothing to sell” to the American people except a crude caricature of her as the midterm elections approach.

Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was surrounded at the Phillip and Sala Burton Center by ardent advocates of health reform, who cheered when she was cheerful and roared when she was defiant. And she was proudly defiant.

“I could care less,” she said of GOP efforts to use her as campaign fundraising bait. “I should be thanking them. … It really helps me with my fundraising.”

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