Wouldn’t it be loverly if House Speaker Nancy "Do-little" Pelosi had a room somewhere far away from the cold, night air of Washington D.C.? With a little bit of luck, she’ll get on a plane heading west and return to California where she belongs to live happily ever after with her own handsome and very rich Professor Higgins, her husband Paul Pelosi. 

Yes, wouldn’t it be loverly. 

The House of Representative's personal flower girl, who it is reported spent $16,000 on flowers since taking office as the first women Speaker of the House of Representatives seems more focused on ambience than substance.  

The beautiful and gracious-to-a-fault Madam Speaker and her cohort in the Senate, Harry “Alfie Do-little” Reid, have collectively handed major concessions to the Bush Administration on the Iraq war funding, tax policies, the children’s health insurance, general spending, and well, poor Nancy.

It’s as if Speaker Do-little never met a battle she knew how to win.  

On paper House Speaker Pelosi is no ordinary woman. The daughter of Tommy D’Alesandro, a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and flamboyant Mayor of Baltimore, she received an early education in politics. Graduated from Trinity College in 1962, she interned for Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) and alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

In 1963, she married her college sweetheart, Paul Pelosi, and in 1969 they moved to San Francisco where she worked her way up in Democratic politics. She was elected party chairwoman for Northern California in 1977. But it wasn’t until her youngest of five children was a high school senior that she decided to run for political office. 

Elected to congress in 1987 she has been re-elected with 75% of the vote 10 times riding the horse of congressional success until that historic moment when she took the gavel as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives.  It was quite an impressive ride. 

So what happened? Headlines read: “Dems Cave on Spending;” “Bush Prevails Again,” “Dems Blame Each Other for Failures.”

House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry "Do-Little" Reid - just an ordinary Mormon from Nevada - are apparently at war, blaming each other for their failures. On the Senate floor, the Majority Leader criticized Speaker Pelosi for her “iron hand” style of governance. Can’t you just hear him whining: “Oh, why can’t a woman be more like a man?” 

Thursday, the House Speaker clearly frustrated to lose yet another vote in the Senate went after Republicans, sorta. “They like this war (Iraq),” she said. “They want the war to continue.” 

My gosh, she’s almost got it, she’s almost got it!

Asked to clarify her remarks, Madam Speaker backed down, which just goes to show you that proper speech and good manners AIN’T what it takes to get things accomplished on the hill. The Speaker is beautiful and gracious to be sure, but seems oh, so utterly abso-bloomin’-lutley wrong for the job!

However, in that same press conference, the Speaker did exhibit one bit of saving grace. She displayed, if in a repressed style, her anger and frustration. Just you wait, all you Republicans, just you wait.

OK, Speaker Pelosi, we’re all waiting. And because we’ve grown accustomed to your pretty face we’ll give you one more chance to show your mettle.

Just so we can say: You did it!  You did it! You said that you would do it, and indeed you did.