New Speaker, Old Virtues
By George F. Will
Newsweek
Dec. 4, 2006 issue - There has been an admirable absence of chivalry in assessments of Nancy Pelosi's stumbling steps toward the speakership. She dismayed colleagues by saying that in order for her to be an effective leader she needed John Murtha as majority leader. Try to imagine Speaker Sam Rayburn confessing such dependency. And a columnist in The Economist says that "often she talks drivel" (the speaker's gavel "is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's children") couched in "clumsy alliteration" (Democrats have "idealism, intellect and integrity.") Says the columnist, "It's like listening to a cross between a Stepford wife and Jesse Jackson." Or like listening to Rumpelstiltskin discuss economics: Pelosi sees increased taxes on oil companies as part of a program of "energy independence."
Newsweek
Dec. 4, 2006 issue - There has been an admirable absence of chivalry in assessments of Nancy Pelosi's stumbling steps toward the speakership. She dismayed colleagues by saying that in order for her to be an effective leader she needed John Murtha as majority leader. Try to imagine Speaker Sam Rayburn confessing such dependency. And a columnist in The Economist says that "often she talks drivel" (the speaker's gavel "is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's children") couched in "clumsy alliteration" (Democrats have "idealism, intellect and integrity.") Says the columnist, "It's like listening to a cross between a Stepford wife and Jesse Jackson." Or like listening to Rumpelstiltskin discuss economics: Pelosi sees increased taxes on oil companies as part of a program of "energy independence."
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