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The writers at Cogitamus join me in wishing our fabulous and formidable Speaker of the House, the Honorable Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi, a very Happy Birthday. Brava, Nancy, bravissima!
Hip, hip, hooray...hip, hip, hooray! For she's a jolly good fellow, and so say all of us.
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and so say all of us!
and so say all of us!
Posted by: minstrel hussain boy | March 26, 2010 at 01:43 AM
Dear Madame Speaker:
Thank you, thank you a thousand times over for your astute leadership of the House of Representatives, and for all you have done in the past fifteen months to make America a better place. May today be the most joyous of birthdays for you.
Happy 70th!
Yours,
low-tech cyclist
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | March 26, 2010 at 09:01 AM
Is Neil going to pop out of that cake? With only a large volume by Jeremy Bentham keeping him decent?
Posted by: Sir Charles | March 26, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Sir charles: "Shame on you." Judging from her recent comments, litbrit only serves 'meatless' food. Neil couldn't be an ingredient.
Might have chosen 'candlepins' instead of pool balls as the decoration, given her Baltimore upbringing.
But yes, Happy Birthday, Nancy, hope you get a present as enjoyable and valuable as the one you gave us.
Posted by: Prup (aka Jim Benton) | March 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Brava, Nancy, bravissima!
Indeed. Keep that momentum going, Madame Speaker!
Posted by: konagod | March 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Happy Birthday, Madame Speaker!
And many happy returns!
Posted by: Corvus9 | March 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM
duckpins, even.
Posted by: big bad wolf | March 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM
pool, of course, works better as a methaphor. she ran the table. she hsutled those idiot repbulican guys who thought they could take her.
Posted by: big bad wolf | March 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM
or even as a metaphor.
a methaphor sounds illegal
Posted by: big bad wolf | March 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM
bbw, the pool table is a metaphor, yes, but it's also what Nancy wants for her birthday!
Posted by: litbrit | March 26, 2010 at 12:13 PM
that's great. sadly we can't all chip in and do it. a pool table cake would work---readily consumable food gifts are usually permitted
i have the bad habit of making everything about the metaphor or a book. a friend with a similar habit says of doing it that she tends to think of life as a metaphor.
Posted by: big bad wolf | March 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM
Yep, she's trouble, right here in River City,
with a capital T that rhymes with P, that stands for Pool!
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | March 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM
no candlepins in Bawlmer - just ducks, hon
Posted by: jeanne marie | March 27, 2010 at 09:28 AM
Good op-ed in yesterday's Boston Globe.
Posted by: oddjob | March 27, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Oddjob, spinning off that op-ed, I am starting to get the sense to Pelosi is getting adopted as an actual icon of the feminist movement. Jezebel is posting articles on her now, and such. There definitely seems to be some resistance still, though.
Posted by: Corvus9 | March 27, 2010 at 11:53 AM
That would be awesome, Corvus!
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | March 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM
We already have a cat named Obama. I've told my husband that our next pet (we also have 2 Basset Hounds) will be named Nancy if it's a girl, or Pelosi if it's a boy.
Posted by: beckya57 | March 28, 2010 at 02:33 PM