LAT: Speaker Pelosi kicks off 3-day celebration with ladies' tea turned power rally

[DeepModem Mom]

Pelosi provides pomp and political roadmap
By Faye Fiore and Tina Daunt, Times Staff Writer
January 3, 2007

....the first woman to become speaker of the House kicked off a three-day celebration Wednesday of her ascension packed with more product placement than an infomercial.

The cannolis at the reception after the morning Mass were from the bakery on the street in Baltimore's Little Italy where she grew up. The white lilies on the altar are her favorite flower. The chapel belonged to Trinity University, the Catholic women's college she graduated from in 1962.

Pelosi sat in the front row surrounded by five grandchildren. The sixth sounded off mid-service and was walked around by his mother. "We've waited over 200 years for this time," Pelosi said at an afternoon gathering that turned from ladies tea to power rally. "America's working women, women working at home, whatever they choose to do, they have a friend in the Capitol of the United States."

Five hundred women wore Rosie the Riveter buttons with Pelosi's face superimposed, with pearl earrings, above the slogan: "A woman's place is in the House ... as Speaker."

She used her first full day on the national stage to tell the country who she is, where she came from and where she plans to go -- the little Italian girl from a political household who raised five children before she ran for the House and made history as the highest-ranking elected woman in 217 years of government....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pelosi4jan04,0,2082598.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[illinoisprogressive]

1. This is wonderful!

[Mind_your_head]

2. Let me be the first to K & R.......

Go Nancy!......You ARE one AWESOME WOMAN!!!! :-)

:grouphug: <----------from women (and the men who understand them) EVERYWHERE!)

[Hekate]

3. 2nd R from me. Fabulous! What I wouldn't have given to be there!

Go, Nancy! Remind the whole world of your roots and who you are.

Do you remember that last year when she got up to speak in the House (I'm pretty sure it was about the war) she was boo'ed by the Repubs when she started out by saying "I'm a mother and grandmother." Those bastards had the nerveless gall to BOO her for pointing out her creds as a WOMAN.

You go, girl.

Hekate

[Mind_your_head]

6. Wasn't that amazingly stupid of them?

Who doesn't love their mother & grandmother who raised them and taught them to sit straight, behave, 'have manners'.....made them the little citizen (or in Neocon-speak the 'product') that they are today. Oh sure, we mom's have to "say things" that deflate young little egos....we don't like to do it, but it's NECESSARY so that a young one doesn't go off 'half-cocked' or become a little dictator...............................

uh-oh.....me's been thinking too much.....

[Greeby]

4. I was watching on CSPAN2, the tribute to Ann Richards was wonderful

And the stuff with the grandkids was cute :)

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. I knew this "tea" thing sounded fabulous!

Go get 'em, Nance!

Thoroughly kicked and happily recommended

[ellisonz]

7. Rosa DeLauro gave a steller introduction.

She's going to be speaker for many years to come. Hell of a woman.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. An a.m. kick for Nancy!