Opinion: I wouldn’t even give you 100 minutes
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The first 100 days of the Pelosifada have begun.
As I type, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) is leading Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) 118 to 110 in voting the new Speaker of the House. Pelosi has famously promised a 100-hour agenda for her incoming Democratic majority, which will include such items as new federal monies for stem cell research, a repeal of some tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies, and the creation of an ‘intelligence oversight panel.’ I wish her the best, so long as her interests do not conflict with mine.
Give a big hand for the ‘Nancy party’ tantalizingly described in Faye Fiore and Tina Daunt’s front page story, wherein you’ll find the following phrases, and then some:
three-day celebration of her ascension cannoli at the reception after the morning Mass white lilies on the altar Roman Catholic women’s college sounded off mid-service and had to be walked around by his mother an afternoon tea turned power rally ‘America’s working women, women working at home, whatever they choose to do, they have a friend in the Capitol of the United States.’ Rosie the Riveter buttons with Pelosi’s face superimposed $15,000 to hear Carole King, Wyclef Jean and Tony ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’ Bennett ‘We’ve eaten so much crow over the last 12 years...’ war, Medicare overhaul and oil-profit rollbacks refusing to allow hearings or amendments Pelosi approved details down to the music for the Mass It included an African-American spiritual Banners with images of the young victims of Katrina and Darfur
This sounds like a feast that would charge up a Speaker-to-be for battle, but I’ve got a question: Pelosi has guaranteed friendship to 150 million people (the nation’s women). The Republicans claim to represent 150 million people, while Pelosi’s party also claims to represent 150 million people. Since the Republican and Democratic sets contain both men and women, doesn’t Pelosi’s friendship with the entire subset of women who are Republicans mean that she now represents 225 million people (the sets of men and women nationwide being roughly equal)? Maybe this two-party system really does get things done!
Anyway, kudos to Pelosi for cutting the never-popular First-100 trope down to hours rather than days.