Good Riddance, Madame Speaker

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 17 Nov 2022 | Andrew Ferguson

[Rummyfan]

Quite apart from the sympathy and horror every decent person feels over the attack on her husband, I for one am going to miss the old gal, as Nancy Pelosi slowly passes from power, with the announcement on Thursday that she will step down from House leadership. She’s had a good run, growing from a back-bencher to be a giant in the politics of her time. And as any comparable figure should, she leaves behind a trail of tokens—remarks and phrases and images—that future generations, if they’re moved to do so, can trace to find what there is to find of the real Nancy Pelosi.

Among these many tokens, let’s think of three. The most famous is the deathless remark she made not long before the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010.

"We have to pass the bill," she said, "so you can find out what’s in it."

The sentence belongs on her monument, if she gets one. It was her answer to complaints that the ACA, as it quivered its way by peristalsis through the lower intestines of congressional subcommittees and closed-door mark-ups, had grown too cumbersome, too complicated for ordinary people to comprehend its effects or even its intentions.

She chose to answer the complaint by agreeing with it—and adding an implicit shrug: "What d’ya expect?"

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Quite apart from the sympathy and horror every decent person feels over the attack on her husband ....

I always thought of myself as a decent person, but now I'm not so sure.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What attack on her husband? The real one or the “media” coverup?

[madison10]

I second the motion.

[JJBookman]

Take your flying monkeys and GO!

[blueunicorn6]

Let’s get her a job that suits her personality.

Hmmmmm…..

I think most of those jobs are in hell.

[NWFree]

One of the most disgusting harmful and evil politicians of our lifetime

[joshua c]

not being on the hook for her bar tab should help the deficit

[joshua c]

this is paul’s penalty for his shenanigans

spending more time with nancy

[KevinB]

I don’t the word cu*t, but I will make an exception for Madame Pelosi.

[Dr. Franklin]

Madam Pelosi has a nice ring to it since she ran a whore house on Capitol Hill.

[BradyLS]

Quite apart from the sympathy and horror every decent person feels over the attack on her husband ....

Wot "attack?"

[nascarnation]

She was a “White House intern” 38 years before Bill Clinton made that term famous.

[Deaf Smith]

Just a FYI for the free beacon, the law was named Obama Care and Hussein went on TV to be sure we knew the name.

It was not until his last year (in elected office) that he backed away and began calling it the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to disassociate it from him.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Does this mean she has to buy her own liquor and ice cream now?

[BerryDingle]

The Madam of the House.

[BerryDingle]

You’re confusing her with the cackling cankles.

[Sicon]

Quite apart from the sympathy and horror every decent person feels over the attack on her husband

Oh, please. I feel no more sympathy and horror over that supposed “attack” than I did for Jussie Smollett.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Now please investigate her like what she put Trump through and televise it.

[Bullish]

Nancy was significant alright, Barak and Joe couldn’t have wrecked havoc on the nation without her help.