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January 4, 2007
A Woman's Place Is In The House (Holding The Gavel)
I was too young when O'Conner got named to the bench to have any appreciation of our incremental steps forward. But I was happy today. It's a good day for women, for men, for the country... we're living up to our creeds.
Will she be a good Speaker? Well, it's hard to think of a worse Speaker than her predecessor. All the power was with DeLay, not Hastert. He was a strawman, a nothing. There was no big policy objectives, unlike Gingrich. There was no greasing of the wheels, unlike Tip O'Neil.
She has small potatoes policy objectives, but they aren't insignifigant. They are popular measures. (mininmum wage, college loans, energy policy, 9-11 commision recommendations, stem-cell). It'll be easy to do.
The hard stuff comes on Iraq. But I've heard all these idiotic pundits cry and wheeze that Dems don't have a plan. They DO have a plan; it's called phased withdrawal. They can't force the President to do it, though. What they can do is cut off funding, which they won't do until after the surge. If the surge fails (which, let's not kid ourselves, it will. You need 100,000 troops, not 40,000. And we needed them four years ago, not now.), they may have the wiggle room the cancel the check. They're scared of what happened after Vietnam. All together now: THIS IS NOT VIETNAM.
Posted by emily at January 4, 2007 2:50 PM