During the past election season, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) could have starred in a remake of the Hollywood cult classic “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.” In an endless string of campaign ads, Republicans caricatured her — even put her image on billboards — as a political monster.
But now, the former House speaker more closely resembles “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.”
When President Barack Obama, Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hammered out a deal last week to avert a shutdown and fund the government for the rest of the year, Pelosi was delivering a speech at Tufts University near Boston.
But her hands would have been idle if she had stayed in Washington: The White House didn’t want her involved in the talks.
I wonder if she will retire in 2012. Many Congressman do when they find themselves in the party of the minority. Hard to send pork back to your district when your vote doesn't matter.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Oh San Fran Nan loves the spotlight way too much, even if the spotlight is a penlight.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
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