Nancy Pelosi, who has been redefining women’s roles in politics, is now also redefining the government.

Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan and ‘Tip’ O’Neil were fighting tooth and toenail, Speaker O’Neil didn’t go traipsing off to Moscow to negotiate his own foreign policy. In those days politics ended at the waters edge. No more. Last week, Speaker Pelosi took partisan politics all the way to Damascus.

So, now, we have two foreign policies. The President’s. And the Speaker of the House’s. If anyone in Iran or North Korea doesn’t like President Bush’s policy, they can appeal to Ms. Pelosi to have Congress change it.

President Bush’s critics like to speculate that his dearth of humility may be his undoing. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, recently put it like this, “He needs to understand he’s President of the United States, not King of the United States.”

Ms. Pelosi has proved arrogance is a bi-partisan vice.

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