Margaret Thatcher once said, “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are…you’re not.”
This weekend Speaker Pelosi was in Pleasant Hill at a fundraiser for Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez. She touted the failed efforts of the Democratic majority to move the Commander-in-Chief on timetables in Iraq, even offering to take their domestic pork barrel spending out of the bill to woo him. Alas, to no avail.
She praised newly-elected Congressman McNerney as “Congress’ only mathematician and wind energy expert.’ Scary that there is only one “mathematician” working on our federal budget, and as far as being a wind energy expert, McNerney isn’t the only one who keeps the hot air balloon around the Capitol fully inflated. Funny thing is, McNerney seems to have figured out that he won’t win re-election by placating the left wing radicals who got him into office. He’s been distancing himself from a number of far left initiatives lately, and looks to be positioning himself as a centrist. Rep. Ellen Tauscher is doing likewise.
San Francisco’s Dame promised a “New Direction for America”, and thus far, seems powerless to deliver anything more than the same old bitter partisanship that political civilians are so sick and tired of hearing. Democrats have been hungry for a “win” since Election Day, and have only created a vacuum of opportunity for Republicans who can demonstrate credibility to Main St. Americans.