Althouse: "I am particularly proud to be the woman Speaker of the House of this Congress, which marks 100 years of women winning the right to vote, as we serve with more than 100 women in the House of Representatives

January 4, 2019

"I am particularly proud to be the woman Speaker of the House of this Congress, which marks 100 years of women winning the right to vote, as we serve with more than 100 women in the House of Representatives – the highest number in history."

Says Nancy Pelosi in her remarks on the opening of the 116th Congress.

46 comments:

Mike Sylwester said...: Speaker Pelosi says we should not begin impeaching President Trump until after Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller releases his report.

She is a stickler for regular procedure.; 1/4/19, 7:54 AM
Darrell said...: I thought Kevin Hart took the job because nobody wanted it. Does that make Nancy a nobody?; 1/4/19, 7:55 AM
Hagar said...: Equal to the President ...
I'll give him one dollar for his wall ...

Methinks Pelosi may be a bit overly giddy and overdoing it.; 1/4/19, 7:57 AM
Darrell said...: She had said she wanted to die being Speaker of the House.
She has taken the first step.; 1/4/19, 7:59 AM
Henry said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/19, 8:01 AM
Henry said...: The aspirational first few paragraphs are great. The political laundry list is pretty blah.

As a one-time resident of Rhode Island and past voter Rep Langevin, this caught my eye:

That week, we honored President George Herbert Walker Bush with eulogies, tributes and tears.

Today, I single out one of his great achievements – working with both Democrats and Republicans to write the Americans With Disabilities Act into the laws of our land.

In 2010, we marked the 20th anniversary of the Act by making it possible for our colleagues with disabilities to preside over the House.

In that same spirit of equality and justice, let me announce that, this afternoon, the first Speaker Pro Tempore of the 116th Congress will be: Congressman Jim Langevin of Rhode Island.

That's a nice way to shout-out to GHWB, but I'm curious about what "making it possible for our colleagues with disabilities to preside" means. It sounds legal, but it's actually utterly pragmatic. From 2010:

The first member of the House of Representatives with quadriplegia will preside over the governing body on Monday in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., will be the first person using a wheelchair to take the helm of the House. The opportunity is possible because of recent alterations to the House Speaker’s platform making it wheelchair accessible through a series of lifts.; 1/4/19, 8:02 AM
TreeJoe said...: In the movies when a character is elected because of what they represent and signal - and not who they actually are - they are invariably a shady character.; 1/4/19, 8:05 AM
Lucid-Ideas said...: "As we serve with more than 100 women - the highest number in history"

Yes, and a good percentage of whom are insane. Pat yourself on the back Nancy.; 1/4/19, 8:09 AM
FIDO said...: Pelosi and Feminists are 100% wrong on this.

Yes, they fought to change men's minds but at the end of the day, they had NO POLITICAL SAY. So if men had wanted to, we could have kept them locked out for quite a while more.

It wasn't a fight they won: it was a gift they were given.

And as a reward, yes, we got flappers, thots and miniskirts, but we also got Feminism, Identity Politics, and the destruction of the nuclear family and about 20 million dead babies.

Giving women the vote has been a bit of an 'Imp in a Bottle' kind of gift.; 1/4/19, 8:10 AM
FIDO said...: Jordan Petersen made mention of a theory he and another professor were batting around.

Men are interested in production and principles.

Women, due to their roles, are not interested in how the rhino was caught; they just were interested in how to carve up the carcass and pass around enough meat that everyone got a slice. Preference given to shutting up the screaming baby, because 'evolution'.

Which is why we get so much socialism caught up with Feminism and the rise of the welfare state: women passing out the rhino someone else killed without any thought to equity, fairness, or the negative consequence of paying off a screaming woman-baby.; 1/4/19, 8:14 AM
tcrosse said...: Trump might be tempted to say, "Go ahead and impeach me. You don't have the votes in the Senate to make it stick, so I'll just cry myself to sleep at night."; 1/4/19, 8:15 AM
Henry said...: It wasn't a fight they won: it was a gift they were given.

Straight from the mouth of George the third.; 1/4/19, 8:18 AM
AllenS said...: "Go ahead and impeach" is what POTUS Trump should say. Then, he should respond "when you're trying to impeach, I'll be trying to keep this country safe, lower taxes and provide jobs so the poorest Americans can find work and lift them selves up and out of poverty." See what message wins.; 1/4/19, 8:28 AM
rhhardin said...: A sane lady would be a better proof, if it were possible.; 1/4/19, 8:28 AM
Fernandinande said...: women winning the right to vote

The ability of women to vote was given to women by men.; 1/4/19, 8:28 AM
John henry said...: Tcrosse,

I'm with you. Impeachment would be a huge distraction. PDJT plays distraction like Eddie Adcock plays the banjo. Masterfully.

I think the distraction of impeachment would work in his favor. I wonder if the House could even get a majority.

PDJT's response should be to characterize it a wanking, mock it on Twitter but otherwise ignore the proceedings. "i refuse to take part in this farce"

John Henry; 1/4/19, 8:32 AM
chickelit said...: They're going to impeach that motherfucker. They being the new "women" in Congress.; 1/4/19, 8:32 AM
John henry said...: I see Allen S and I are thinking on similar lines

John Henry; 1/4/19, 8:34 AM
Henry said...: Pelosi has no intention of letting her caucus get anywhere close to impeachment.; 1/4/19, 8:35 AM
Jimmy said...: The new congress is wasting no time in telling us just how much they hate Trump and at least half the country. Or at least the part that is white and male. But yeah, let's celebrate people who literally want us to die, soon.; 1/4/19, 8:35 AM
tcrosse said...: A couple years ago somebody formulated an elaborate plan to remove Trump and Pence in order to install Hillary in the Presidency. Nobody seems very interested in that result any more, yet they persist. Persisterhood is powerful.; 1/4/19, 8:37 AM
Greg Hlatky said...: "As we serve with more than 100 women - the highest number in history"

According to the Democratic Style Guide, female Republicans aren't women at all.; 1/4/19, 8:41 AM
rhhardin said...: My first thought at 100 women in the House is long lines at the ladies' rooms. I'd expect an invasion of the men's room.; 1/4/19, 8:44 AM
rhhardin said...: More cookies in committee meetings.; 1/4/19, 8:47 AM
Henry said...: Overall, 127 women are serving in Congress – 25 in the Senate and 102 in the House.

In the Senate, 17 of the women serving are Democrats and eight are Republicans. In the House, 89 women are Democrats, and 13 are Republicans.; 1/4/19, 8:47 AM
rhhardin said...: If there are lesbians, enough to start a congressional women's softball league.

It takes organizing, is why you need lesbians.; 1/4/19, 8:48 AM
rhhardin said...: Covered dish congressional suppers.; 1/4/19, 8:50 AM
Howard said...: You Cucks are still afraid of girls cooties.; 1/4/19, 9:04 AM
rhhardin said...: You can build a cootie catcher starting with the same folds as for a water bomb.; 1/4/19, 9:05 AM
Howard said...: It's the cootie folds that matter, rh.; 1/4/19, 9:21 AM
Lyle Smith said...: Althouse for Congress!; 1/4/19, 9:52 AM
SeanF said...: In 2010, we marked the 20th anniversary of the Act by making it possible for our colleagues with disabilities to preside over the House.

So they passed the ADA and then didn't make their own chambers wheelchair accessible for twenty years? And when they did finally do it, they only did it to for the purpose of showing how cool they were 20 years earlier?; 1/4/19, 10:17 AM
FIDO said...: You Cucks are still afraid of girls cooties.

Who needs cooties when you have #MeToo, emotional blackmail, female privilege and hysterics to be afraid of?

Besides, guys have historically been quite keen on the actions necessary to catch cooties, if not so much the consequences of the act.; 1/4/19, 10:19 AM
n.n said...: Sex politics. The Constitution does not indulge in diversity including sexism (e.g. feminism). Women always had the right to vote with exceptions in some communities. The 19th Amendment guaranteed a uniform right to vote without respect to an individual's sex.; 1/4/19, 10:23 AM
rcocean said...: I thought we went through the "Wow, Nancy is a woman and she's Speaker" crap 12 years ago.

I guess it never gets old.

But maybe next time we can get woman not named Pelosi.; 1/4/19, 10:25 AM
narciso said...: Yes its groundhog day all over again, with tlaib doing the part of Maxine waters.; 1/4/19, 10:34 AM
Birkel said...: But none of the Republican representatives are actually women-women.
So how many real women are in Congress?
Democrat math is hard.; 1/4/19, 10:39 AM
gerry said...: It is fitting that a woman summarizes the results of 100 years of women voting. This may be the worst House in history, especially if Michigan's motherf***ing representative Tlaib and Occasional Cortex are examples.; 1/4/19, 11:20 AM
Howard said...: FIDO: thanks so much for verification; 1/4/19, 11:51 AM
narciso said...: In Virginia they voted for ex company operative spanberger who taught at the finishing school for al queda, Islamic Saudi academy.; 1/4/19, 12:09 PM
Bilwick said...: Since women are the Statist Sex, that does not bode well for liberty.; 1/4/19, 1:11 PM
Birkel said...: Howard is winning a game only Howard is playing.
Good job, Ho.; 1/4/19, 1:23 PM
realestateacct said...: I can't figure out why it's such a big deal that someone who was Speaker already is Speaker again. Wasn't she a woman before?; 1/4/19, 2:50 PM
n.n said...: actually women-women

Feminine women. Gender and sex.

Democrat math

Political congruence: 1+1 "=" 3, black+white "=" brown, evolution+human life "=" Choice etc.; 1/4/19, 3:26 PM
Mark said...: Is she proud of the perpetual victimhood of women?

And how do we know that a hundred women did not serve in previous Congresses in the 1800s? After all, back then, they weren't as enlightened as we are about being open with one's gender. Just because they all had penises doesn't mean they were all men, you know.; 1/4/19, 6:10 PM
walter said...: Mike Sylwester said...
Speaker Pelosi says we should not begin impeaching President Trump until after Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller releases his report.
She is a stickler for regular procedure.
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Or..she realizes the coordinated drip, drip, drip at designated intervals is more valuable than actually moving forward with nothing but sphincter clenching to drive impeachment.; 1/4/19, 9:51 PM