Today is a big day for Nancy Pelosi -- and she wants everybody to know it.
By becoming the first woman ever to be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi has definitely made history and her efforts deserve to be congratulated. The problem is she's so busy patting herself on the back that nobody else needs to.
Reports the Washington Times:
"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.
Pelosi, a hardcore San Franciscan liberal, has been working hard to play up her sweet Italian-Catholic grandmother front now that she's hit the mainstream (something
traditional Catholics are not happy about).
Earlier today she attended mass with her husband, Paul, only to be greeted by protestors upset that she calls herself a pro-choice Catholic, saying there is no such thing.
From there she made sure to
surround herself with her six granchildren on the House floor while votes were tallied (a 233-202 split down the party line), keeping the two-month-old baby in her arms as she shook hands with fellow House members wishing her congratulations.