Remember when the temporary success of Geena Davis' Commander-in-Chief was said to pave the way for a Hillary Clinton presidency by getting voters accustomed to a competent female chief executive? Isn't it possible that--if Pelosi assumes the Speakership and flops as badly as some Dems fear--she'll perform an opposite function, namely souring the voters on the idea of a female executive? Two-years worth of saccharine robotic liberal pollster phrases about "America's children" can do that.
Kaus also finds this hilarious quote from Pelosi on her expected accession to the Speakers' chair: "The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's children." Heh. Indeed.
