Ok, so I’m a big fan of Nancy Pelosi, and don’t usually go for crass gender stereotypes, but The Onion is on a roll: Nancy Pelosi Wants Congress To Want To Pass Bill (”Several representatives cited an outburst on the House floor in October during which Pelosi told the governing body that if they didn’t know what was on the weekly legislative agenda, then she certainly wasn’t going to tell them.”)
“I don’t understand what Speaker Pelosi expects from us, though I don’t dare say that to her,” Costello said. “I’ve been trying to be extra nice to her lately after she told me that my voting record on Medicare and prescription-drug issues has been ‘distant’ lately. ‘Distant?’ What does that even mean?”
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Signs of Pelosi’s second-guessing began to show in September, after she first proposed the bill on the House floor. When Rep. Edward Markey (D–MA) called the bill a “good, common-sense measure,” Pelosi requested additional floor time to start her address over from the beginning, on the grounds that “the members present had obviously not paid attention to a single word.” While delivering the address a second time, she paused midway to request that Rep. Bill Shuster (R–PA) repeat what she just said.“I remember once on the phone, when she called me trying to gather support for the bill, she got mad when I said, ‘Sure, I’ll vote for it,’” Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD) said. “She said, ‘That’s all you can say, “Sure?” When you know how important this is to me?’ I told her I was on board with whatever she wanted and then she just made this exasperated groan and hung up.”
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