Nancy Pelosi

Glenn Greenwald pretty much sums up my opinion on Nancy.

I think there's a good chance she's going to surprise people and be quite effective as Speaker of the House.

The Washington Post has this to say...

House Democrats elected Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) the new majority leader yesterday over strong opposition from Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), exposing a deep political divide even before the party takes control.

The Washington Post is full of crap, quite frankly. First of all, despite any differences, Nancy didn't have "strong opposition" to Hoyer. She supported the other guy because he was loyal to her. That's all. Just because her guy didn't get elected doesn't take any power away from her. She's still gets to be the freakin' Speaker. And she got elected unamiously.

The verdict is out on how she'll do overall, but I think there's alot of reason for hope. People are going to look back on this little majority leader mini-controversy very soon and see how little it meant.