Pelosi Up Front

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Hard to watch Bush’s State of the Union address without being distracted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fidgeting in her seat as she decided which way she would go on each point. She alternated between squirming in her chair as she pretended to read the speech while the Republicans cheered on some conservative point like the fact that No Child Left Behind is a success, and lightly clapping to a statement she didn’t find too offensive like that we will defeat the terrorists.

It makes you wonder: does she decide ahead of time which points she will support? Are there meetings about it? What happens if she doses off for a second or gets distracted, does she stand and clap, or squirm and read? Maybe she wears an ear piece and political analysts in a room somewhere tell her which way to go.

Either way, watching Pelosi was almost as much fun as knowing that it was Bush’s very last State of the Union.



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