And The Light Bulb Goes Off

I am heartened by the comments Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave to reporters today that are published in a Huffington Post blog. I hate it took her two years to figure things out, but late is always better than never.

First the substance:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she wants to see the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy repealed "as early as possible."

The call for repeal may place Pelosi at odds with President-elect Obama; during the campaign he called for repeal but his aides have since indicated that due to the deteriorating economy, he was leaning towards allowing them to expire.

Asked again after her press conference about the tax cuts, the Speaker said she is "urging repeal."

Now the style:

More broadly, she said that she told the Democratic caucus this morning that they need to rethink the way they approach legislation now that they are no longer in the minority or facing a Republican president. "We're thinking a political way about this," she said. "We have to think differently about this...We've been so used to an uphill fight but now we have arrived."

Claiming that polls show some 79 percent of the American people are behind Obama's stimulus plan, the Congress should "move quickly -- not hastily, but quickly," she said.

Now if she could only get that feckless coward of a Majority Leader of ours on board to take up the same mentality we might actually have something.

Yes We Can