Dowd on Pelosi

This may knock me down a few notches in some of your eyes, but I've always liked Marueen Dowd. Her most recent column about Nancy Pelosi is a home-run. This whole week I've been consistently unimpressed with the unleadership skill, strained logic and superficiality of Nancy Pelosi. Dowd describes much of what I have been feeling ("Squeaker of the House" TimesSelect subscription required):

Nancy Pelosi’s first move, after the Democratic triumph, was to throw like a girl. Women get criticized in the office for acting on relationships and past slights rather than strategy, so Madame Speaker wasted no time making her first move based on relationships and past slights rather than strategy.

I fear that Democrats will spend too much time gloating, basking and infighting and not enough time seriously planning for needed changes in public and foreign policy. Here's to hoping there are some motivated good brains in Washington... that aren't staffers.