Alexandra Pelosi's documentary about her mom, the best Speaker of the House perhaps ever in American history, premiered last night. If you can catch it, it's worth watching.
In less than two hours, Alexandra neatly recounts Nancy Pelosi's 35-year Congressional career, leaving viewers in awe of the Speaker's commitment to democracy, her unflagging energy, her math skills, and her impressive wardrobe of high heels — which she wore to criss-cross the Capitol's hallowed marble halls, always a woman on a mission.
Although we thought we remembered the nightmare of passing the Affordable Care Act pretty well, it was still pretty striking how the anti-ACA teabaggers in 2009 and 2010 presaged the January 6, 2021, insurrectionists. It was also amusing that Alexandra gave her dad such a meaty supporting role. Watching him run the garbage disposal while his wife was trying to talk on the phone with Mike Pence, or peeling pistachios at a pre-State of the Union party, was both grin- and wince-inducing — since we all know how Paul Pelosi ended up in the ICU a couple of months ago.
(Also, George W. Bush makes a cameo appearance that may actually have you thinking for a split second that he wasn't so terrible after all. It's a downer to remember, even post-Trump, that he was.)
Not to give anything away, but the best part came at the end. "Where are your wounds? Was there nothing worth fighting for?" Nancy Pelosi says she's proud of her wounds. And we're proud of her. We cats PURR.
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