Nancy Pelosi Hands Over The Gavel, After Ten Final Interminable Minutes

OS had to see it, while working his way through his daily duties: The exit of Miss Nancy, and the beginning of John Boehner's Speakership.

As usual, she had that dreadful smile pasted on her face, talked about herself, and talked, and talked, and talked...about herself. She gave a final campaign speech, after having overwhelmingly lost her last campaign. A complete disconnect from reality. And, in a more profound disconnect, the remaining House Democrats voted for her to head their caucus. Rather like voting for George Armstrong Custer, one final time, as the Sioux nation encircles the troops.

Boehner, by contrast, in his opening remarks, after introducing his family, talked about the realities we face, and about the Constitution, and the American idea.

Here's hoping he means it, and will stick to it. We're out of time, and out of road down which the proverbial can may be kicked.

Just by dint of being from a large Catholic family, who worked his way through college as a janitor, and by being from the Midwest, he has automatically earned the hatred of the elites who moved through the Ivies into places of power. Hopefully, he just accepts their hatred as a badge of honor, and remembers all those of us living in all those counties and towns and neighborhoods who are also the objects of their disdain.