On the day after Election Day, President Bush was asked at a nationally televised news conference how he would work with incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a woman who called him “incompetent, a liar, the emperor with no clothes, and dangerous.”
Bush nodded, touched the lapel on his suit, and said: “I've been around politics a long time. I understand when campaigns end, and I know when governing begins. And I am going to work with people of both parties. Look, people say unfortunate things at times.”
In Tallahassee, at the conclusion of two major statewide races where property insurance was the major issue and insurers were vilified, the insurance industry appears in the same role as the President in Washington.
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