Seeing Nancy Pelosi being given the gavel for ‘Speaker of the House’ was difficult to comprehend. Do we understand that if Bush goes down, she’s second in line to become the President of the United States? But being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with the celebration.

In her acceptance speech, she talked about having ‘a new era of bi-partisanship’, more ‘civility’ in government, bridging the ‘gap’ between man and woman, the end of ‘200 years of inability to achieve rights’, a totally new direction for the war in Iraq, and ‘the marble ceiling has been broken’.

What is this woman talking about? We would like to know whose vote helped get Pelosi to where she is today. Bi-partisanship and civility are the two last things people think about with the ascension of Pelosi to the Speaker. Perhaps Lorie Byrd(TownHall) put it best when she said the “Congress which is now controlled by the Democrats is determined to thwart a lame duck president.”

I thought women were given all the same rights as men(including the right to vote) by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution over 87 years ago. What about when Geraldine Ferraro and likely Hillary Clinton were/will be included on White House tickets for past and upcoming presidential elections? What about the women that have been elected to the Senate and the House for years? Does the ‘marble ceiling’ really exist, or is Pelosi expounding on her meteoric rise to the Speaker position? Maybe she feels we should ignore Condolezza Rice’s Secretary of State status, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in leading the “UK” through their difficulties more than 20 years ago.

How can she continue to trumpet a victory in the tired game of gender politics? The same liberals who are praising her for breaking the ‘marble ceiling’ are the ones who adamantly oppose any conservative females(i.e., Judge Janice Rogers Brown) from trying to advance. As Tony Perkins(Family Research Council) puts it, “This is a celebration—not of all women—but of liberal women.”

Pelosi also states that America must lead a new direction in the war in Iraq. It sounds like the typical ‘cut-and-run’ ploy, from someone who initially voted to give Bush any and all power to fight terrorism and conduct the war. It’s interesting how dead Americans can change someone’s outlook from ‘freedom for the Iraqis and from terrorism’ to ‘let’s just cut our losses’. Didn’t someone ever tell her that freedom is not “free”? The terrorists likely think this move is the best that they could have hoped for.

But the kicker is that Pelosi is what’s termed a ‘Cafeteria Catholic’. Her open, unapologetic, and forceful promotion of anti-Catholic policies has resulted in her automatic ‘excommunication’ years ago. She is now leading the congressional charge against Church teachings. A few happen to be abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, cloning, and embryonic stem cell research—all ‘non-negotiables’ in Catholic theology. Now we have someone who is willingly complicit in falsifying her religious beliefs. What else is she willing to do?

The 2008 elections are indeed something to look forward to.

Kevin Roeten
http://kevinroeten.us/