The Congresswoman Who Went Out in the Cold

News reports about politicians "snapping" are always a letdown. Most of the time, they're a highly exclamated account of an "outburst" that would not strike anyone outside the political world as being particularly noteworthy. Of course, I thought the same thing when Dick Cheney invited Pat Leahy to attempt self-fornication, so my perspective may be a touch jaded.

So my real purpose in linking Le Scandal(!) of Nancy Pelosi's speaking curtly to snapping at White House economic counsel Gene Sperling cannot be to gasp at her viciousness. Rather, I'm pointing out just how far out of the process Pelosi is: enough that she's complaining about it in a meeting "in the midst of an active but largely cordial meeting."

With Nancy, cordial means you retain all your precious bodily fluids.

Which, as we may surmise, is politician-speak for "the old battle-axe let us have it." So it would appear that Obama has thrown the House Minority Leader under the bus. Which is odd, given that he seems to be rapidly running out of friends.