The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial yesterday regarding newly-elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's exemption of one of her hometown companies, DelMonte, via its StarKist Tuna unit, and its Samoan operations, from her highly-touted minimum wage hiking bill.
There are many more news articles on the topic, such as those found here, here, here, and here. It's not simply a Journal editorial hack job. Many people have noted the ethical lapse by Speaker Nan.
By the way, that last link is really precious. The writer outlines my own thoughts, which are that the Democrats have been starved of effective power for so long (and still are, btw), that they could not wait to begin ramming through the House their version of America, bill by bill.
With a weak plurality in the Senate, and a sitting President of the opposing party, the craigslist poster notes that Nan is simply butting heads with a process that will deny her anything but a reputation for ineffectiveness and naivete.
But, that's for later. For now, we see Nan as the usual House hack she, in fact, is. Anyone in the House long enough to make the 'leadership' team is typically so irretrievably hacked up that s/he can't help her/himself from grabbing for the goodies ASAP.
Welcome to the Speaker's House of Shame, Nan. You got there in record time, baby! I guess women can do something better than men.
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