Stop Me Before I Vote Again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101865_pf.html

Pelosi Aims To Recast Self, Party New House Speaker Plans a 4-Day Fete
By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer

On a scale associated with presidential inaugurations, Nancy Pelosi is planning four days of celebration surrounding her Jan. 4 swearing-in as the first female speaker of the House. She will return to the blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up, attend Mass at the women's college where she studied political science, and dine at the Italian Embassy as Tony Bennett sings "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."

What really bugs me about all this is that a former member of the Grateful Dead -- drummer Mickey Hart -- at Pelosi's self-aggrandizement...uh, that is swearing-in party. You'd think someone of Mickey's history and background wouldn't be swigging Kool-Aid -- that is, Kool-Aid with something besides LSD in it. (;^>

Looks as if The Nancy is going to be doing what Mexicans cynically describe as "taking a bath in the People"...putting in appearances in her old 'hood, her old school.

Oh, and btw, as the DW and I were coming back into town from visiting my sister's place down in Virginia, heading west on Penn Ave back towards our house on Capitol Hill (come visit our scenic Green Zone), the Metrobus-stop shelters had entire sides filled with The Nancy's beaming portrait and the bold banner headline (paraphrasing a bit) "Congratulations, Speaker Pelosi, etc. etc." Jayzus Keerist, the "New face of the Democratic Party". Oh, God, please kill me now.