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Pelosi is "in her place" as Speaker

By Jeanne Duncan on 10/08/2009 @ 03:51 PM

Tags: GOP Opponents, Nancy Pelosi, US House

Speaker Pelosi had the perfect reaction today when a reporter asked her what she thought about a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman suggesting that General McCrystal needs to "put her in her place" over her comments about the war in Afghanistan:

"It's really sad, they really don't understand how inappropriate that is.... I'm in my place. I'm the speaker of the House, the first woman speaker of the House, and I'm in my place because the House of Representatives voted me here. But that language is something I haven't even heard in decades."

Her tone is priceless. She's polite. She's clear about who she is and the power she wields. And darned if I don't detect a soupçon of pity for her completely clueless critics, who seem to be stuck in some bizarre "Mad Men" time warp when women were just starting to push back against clearly defined gender roles.

Watch it here.

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