It
is no secret that the Democrack-up Party is self-destructive. Even when
poised to win elections, the Party somehow manages to shoot itself in
the foot and lose. Witness, that there has been only one two-term
Democratic President since World War II, the president the Democrats
these days love to hate, Bill Clinton and his First Lady Hillary.
Clearly, the Clintons first hater is Nancy Pelosi, who said and did
everything or nothing, during the Democratic Party’s primary season to
bring down the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
Apparently, Hillary
Clinton is not welcome in Nancy Pelosi's house.
The
first Mrs. Speaker of the House of Representatives, along with her
cohorts, were more interested in wresting control of the Party from the
Clintons, the leaders of the moderate movement that brought that rare
two-term success to the Democrack-up Party, than in taking positions
their power afforded them to stop the clearly misogynistic attacks on
Senator Clinton during her candidacy.
You
could say Speaker Pelosi suffers from wicked step-sister glass foot in mouth
disease. Whenever she opens her trap nothing but negativity toward
Hillary Clinton comes out, her words uniquely subtle yet shrill
enough to shatter a piece of glass-ceiling.
Speaker
Pelosi has an interesting delivery. While her style of speech is
deliberate, she delivers her words with a soft, breathy voice, sort of
sotto voce, an Italian modern-day Marilyn Monroe
impersonation. After all, in these times baby doll girlies are out; but
tough broads aren’t in either. Thus, Mrs. Pelosi’s cross between Barbie
and Nurse Ratchet most likely got her elected the first woman Speaker of
the House of Representatives, using both feminine wiles and no-nonsense
authoritarianism to get her the job.
Of
course, it was no easy climb to get to where she is today. Congress is the
epitome of the Old Boy’s Club, even as women make strides in their
numbers in American government. However, when women constitute more than
half of the nation’s population but hold only approximately 16 percent
of congressional seats, it’s clear that women need all the help that
they can get in furthering their power in government.
So you
would think that a woman who “made it” would do everything that she
could to help another break through that so often spoken about glass ceiling.
Well,
think again.
Speaker
Pelosi’s personal power and political agenda took precedence over
righting a major wrong in American society, the diminution of women.
Women should be royally pissed (yes, pissed!) at Speaker Nancy Pelosi
the highest-ranking woman ever to hold elective office in the U.S.,
for allowing her personal agenda to stand in the way of her using her
power to help facilitate the election of the first viable women
candidate for the highest office in the land.
Yesterday, to much applause and respect by many, if not Nancy Pelosi,
Hillary Clinton returned to the Senate to take up where she left off
before her unsuccessful pursuit of the presidency.
Today, Mrs. Clinton
will rally the troops in the House, those who supported her candidacy
and those who did not, to stand behind the Party’s presumptive nominee,
Barack Obama. Tomorrow, the class-act of Hillary Clinton will hit the
road with her former foe to show she is throwing her full support behind the Obama candidacy.
Despite her Armani suits and tony San Francisco address, Speaker Pelosi
clearly lacks Hillary Clinton’s class. On Senator Clinton’s return to
the Senate yesterday, Speaker Pelosi in her best Nurse Ratchet imitation
couldn’t resist just one more swipe at Hillary Clinton, and at all women
who struggle to break through that glass ceiling.
This from the highest women political office holder in the land: “
“I myself find that I get a tremendous upside from being a woman and I
don’t spend a lot of time worrying about sexist remarks that people
make.”
Well, Mrs. Pelosi, maybe you ought to. But, of course, I’m speaking to
the woman who has taken to hiding behind the skirts of that girlie man,
FISA-loving, Steny Hoyer.