10/31/2007, 8:34 am
The '08 race is getting stale even as it begins. The same old faces, the same old platitudes. Missing is the one dark horse who is not dark at all. Instead she is in the national spotlight everyday. Call her Miss Nancy.
Depending on which side of the political fence they are on, national pundits are either salivating or crying over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Republicans can't stand her, claim that "she wants to to continue trying to diminish the importance of 'this presidency'", all the while pointing at the Republicans and declaring 'For shame!' -- Horrors! What would she do next? With a whip in one hand and a chair in the other would she push for legislation that would force an end to the ongoing U.S. presence in Iraq and expand Childrens Health Care??!
As usual, the Rethuglicans are shortsighted regarding Speaker Pelosi. While they are concentrating on how much damage she might do to their conservative agenda - flaying them on Iraq, the SCHIP Program, the minimum wage, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the Medicare welfare program for the pharmaceutical industry - they should also be looking down the road and considering what she might do during four or eight years as Vice President Pelosi. Vice President Pelosi? Yes - she has been in the muddy trenches on the floor of the House - give her a chance, and she will go a long way toward bringing America out of intensive care and putting us on the road to recovery. Speaker Pelosi is a person of integrity and honor. We should have no doubt that she will make good on her promises. We should praise her for them. Often. So no one forgets what a marvelous leader she truly is.
There is something about Miss Nancy that won't be denied. She has led her mule-stubborn majority in the House through one of the worst eras of legislative floundering the Democrats have ever experienced. And she has done it with style and class, qualities that House Republicans only equate with money and power, as evidenced by their arrogant mishandling of our nation's legislative process.
Miss Nancy has the perfect background to become the first woman Vice President of the United States. She was born into a family that believes in giving. Her father was Mayor of Baltimore, as was her brother. She began her own career in public service as a grunt in the Democratic party, making phone calls, knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, etc. She has been an activist all of her adult life. In addition, Miss Nancy is a mom - a mother of five, and is also a grandmother, something Miss Hillary and Chelsea have yet to accomplish. And while the Republicans hate Hillary, they fear Nancy. When Nancy plays the mother or grandmother card at political gatherings in churches or in town halls, or on the battlefield of the House floor, even sneering Republicans have to shuffle their feet and sweat over the lady from California with the shock of red hair.
She demands respect by her mere presence, and she gets it. But what about Hillary? Hillary Clinton will do just fine. In fact, she deserves to be President after having to put up with Bill's escapades for eight years in the White House, who has had trouble keeping his hands, and other body parts, away from attractive women. One might think that if Mr. Bill had done that to Miss Nancy as First Husband, he would be missing some of those body parts.
So how about a Clinton-Pelosi ticket in 2008? Can you imagine what the White House would be like after these ladies changed the drapes and rearranged the antique furniture? Mr. Bill probably wouldn't be allowed into the building. And Republicans would be admonished to wipe their feet and doff their caps before they would be allowed into the Oval Office, after which Hillary and Miss Nancy would torture them into submission, whatever the subject. I don't know about you, but I would give up most of my sinning ways just to be a fly on the walls of the White House during a Clinton-Pelosi administration.
Bring it on.
-Mikhail T. Kalashnikov
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(Taken and edited for satirical purposes from a comment by Jim Dwyer on "And a dash of oh-eight" - Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:07 AM by Mark Murray)
Also a tip of the hat to Commissar Pupovich for the "let's go out and change it" reference on the poster (this thread). Thank you Commisioner!
