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...Speaker's lobby just off the House floor, staffers had set up folding tables with packets containing a voting card, lapel pin and license plates for every member. Nancy Pelosi set aside more than three and a half hours for faux-swearing-in photos: the real oath was taken by the entire House on the floor just after noon, but everyone wanted a class-day picture with their families and the new Speaker...
...with Clyburn accepting an actual whip and the pair praising each other. Clyburn said he and Blunt "would continue to have our good working relationship." Blunt, the man in charge of blocking the Democrats' agenda, not only extolled Clyburn, but said "there's a lot to admire about Nancy Pelosi." Clyburn highlighted the tie he was wearing with red and blue stripes as a symbol of how both parties could work together...
...That'll pass. Already, the fights are starting. Republicans griped, with no hint of irony, that Pelosi's use of strict rules to bring bills straight to the floor for vote was unfair, though the G.O.P. aggressively used the same tactic when they held control. And while Pelosi will have little difficulty moving bills out of the House in the first hundred hours of her speakership, thanks to the majority-friendly rules of the institution, things will be decidedly slower on the other side of the building. Pelosi's Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is facing challenges...
...this could be the good news. As the first female Speaker and a San Francisco liberal, Pelosi can use this moment in the spotlight to define herself as anything but a bleeding heart. Pelosi's brazen decision to have her "People's Open House" be invitation-only could paint her as cynical or, with the right spin, as simply a savvy realist. A successful reintroduction for Pelosi should combine the warm fuzzy of a northern California family woman with the bare-knuckle skills of a backroom pol: the iron grandma...
...Pelosi can pull it off, perhaps there's hope for another prominent female politician, whose White House ambitions have been dogged by an apparently immutable public image: Hillary Clinton. The last event of Pelosi's swearing-in celebrations is the renaming of the 200 block of Albemarle St., in Baltimore, as Via Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi. President Street is only a block away...