By SnifflesA week that saw the Fort Hood shooter brought down by a feisty five-foot-four civilian police officer named Kimberly was capped last night by an historic House vote that even the cranky guys over at Politico admit was thanks to Nancy Pelosi.
"For all the work that went into pulling together the votes for the bill — the President, Cabinet secretaries, legions of White House aides, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s deft touch with conservative Blue Dogs and senior lawmakers, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and his team of vote-counting lieutenants, progressive grassroots organizations and any number of others who could rightly take credit for a piece of the victory — no one could doubt that it took Pelosi’s leadership to deliver a congressional vote in favor of a national health care system that eluded President Bill Clinton, Sen. Ted Kennedy and [Congressman John] Dingell’s father, who first introduced such a bill in 1943."
We cats don't know what's going to happen over on the Senate side. But today, we PURR at Ms. Pelosi — all, um, five feet of her. Well done, Madam Speaker!
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