Nancy Pelosi: Speaker of the House No More

Yesterday, when Nancy Pelosi said that early returns showed Democrats would keep the House, was she lying or being stupid?

Who cares?

What matters is Pelosi is finished. It's over. Thank God.

From the Washington Post:

Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American politics, lost her job as speaker of the House on Tuesday as voters delivered a sharp rebuke to the party she helped lead.

Her steely manner and the progressive policies she championed made her a favorite target for resurgent Republicans nationwide. Pelosi's face appeared in more GOP attack ads than any other Democrat, including President Obama.

Pelosi had seized upon a rare Democratic alignment across government to orchestrate deals that she saw as historic and remarkable, but which seemed intrusive and ideological to a broadening swath of the U.S. electorate.

In the end, it cost her the powerful gavel.

All day Tuesday, Pelosi was relentlessly upbeat. She appeared before cameras with three young grandchildren and told reporters: "We're on pace to maintain the majority."

Even in confidence, friends said, Pelosi never betrayed any doubt. "I have never seen that moment," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.). "She's never let up. She's never given up the faith."

And as she stood before a a few hundred supporters Tuesday night, as some races were being called and placed her job in jeopardy, she gave no indication that she really believed the House was about to shift in a devastating voter repudiation of her leadership.

"We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class," Pelosi, in a white pantsuit and silver pearls, said with a constant smile.

In other words, Pelosi was in a complete state of denial. She had lost touch with reality, still believing she'd hold on to her position as Speaker of the House.

I suppose that's to be expected.

As speaker, she ignored the American people, totally out of touch, like so many of her fellow Dems, including Obama.

She forgot she worked for us.

So, we took away Pelosi's power.

America is a great country.