Joke of the day: Most powerful woman in political history

November 17, 2008

I don't even know what to say. I find Nanci Pelosi empty-headed and inarticulate and just plain spacy...she's too old for ditzy.

Politico's JOHN BRESNAHAN: As Pelosi enters her third year as speaker, by any measure, she has become the most powerful woman in U.S. political history and is now preparing to wield her gavel in a way that few, if any, recent speakers could match....Pelosi is being mentioned by observers in the same breath as the legendary Sam Rayburn and Tip O'Neill, although she has yet to assemble a legislative record to match theirs.

PELOSI: I respect the office that I hold. And when you win the election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker? To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone.

Most powerful woman in US political history? Lowest approval rating for Congress ever? Single digits in July - lower than the worst president in history. Whatever power she has she's not putting it to good use.