“Pelosi ready to make history as new speaker”
A new Congress convenes today with a narrow Democratic majority lording over a despondent Republican minority.
While the full weight of Republicans’ powerlessness sinks in after 12 years of control, Democrats are celebrating the historic election today of the first female speaker of the House.
“We have waited over 200 years for this time to come,” Mrs. Pelosi said on the eve of her selection as speaker, a position that makes her second in line to the presidency after Vice President Dick Cheney.
We will not just break through a glass ceiling, we will break through a marble ceiling,” she said. “In more than 200 years of history, there was an established pecking order—and I cut in line.”
After calling herself “the most powerful woman in America,” Mrs. Pelosi flexed her right muscle like a weight lifter to much applause at an event yesterday titled a “women’s tea.”
“All right, let’s hear it for the power,” she screamed as the jubilant applause continued.
There was a time when statesman and politicians at least made the pretense that they held their offices in order to serve the people. Nancy Pelosi eschews the charade and trumpets her naked lust for power, which we’re apparently supposed to excuse because she’s a girl.
It would be nice if the Democrats would at least, you know, pretend that they wanted control of Congress for any other reason than that they wanted power. Many conservative pundits predicted that when the Democrats actually won Congress in 2006 it wouldn’t take long before they were exposed as having no other agenda than simply being opposite of whatever the Republicans were.
Good luck with that and see you in 2008.
Image the outcry if President Bush had said he was the most powerful man in U.S. or the world. The first charge would be megalomania.
This does remind me of advocates of women priests is that they also see is as all about power instead of service.
Sounds kinda like the bragging one does when they are drunk.
She is drunk on power.
Did anyone think Denny Hastert was the most powerful man in America when he was Speaker of the House? Just asking….
Omigosh. What a gaff. Too bad most folks are too lost to recognize a true gaff when they see one, but, omigosh, what a gaff!
I do like the way the Times characterized her cry of jubilation as a “scream.” When have the Democrats done anything but scream, I ask?
In any event, this “most powerful woman” mantra is nonsense – do they think Condi Rice is just sitting around the White House picking up after Massa Dubya? Whatever. I do giggle when I think about Nancy getting drunk on her power. Let Grandma Nancy just once get in Evita’s way, and she’ll see who really has “power.”
Nancy Pelosi just proved one thing I’ve always said, a woman drunk on power is no different than a man in same condition. Having gone to an all girl school I have a pretty good idea of how Pelosi is going to run things.
dymphna,
that was well said. I’m all for women making strides and becoming CEO’s, President, etc, etc, etc. It’s good to see, in that regard. But as I said on Shea’s page, if you have to call yourself “the most powerful woman in America”, are you? Really?
PS When we have a woman president I’m sure everyone will go crazy too, forgetting that other countries have already had woman leaders. Again, not that I’m not glad for woman acheiving this goal in our country, but it’s not as if it hasn’t been done before elsewhere.
Oooh, I bet Hilary was fit to be tied when she heard Princess Pelosi.
No WAY is she the most powerful woman. Not even close! Oprah, if you count all the actions and beliefs that proliferate because “Oprah said…” wins hands down!
I don’t vote for either of them as an authority. But I sure have to listen to their opinions frequently.