(at the recent installation of the most powerful woman in the U.S.)

"The cheering among the women in the audience, dressed in elegant pantsuits and wreathed in pearls and gold, soars as Pelosi calls to the stage every Democratic member of Congress. They take turns embracing her and then fan out behind her. Glancing across them one by one, I catch a disheartening picture. For all the talk of how the rise of women in politics will transform America, this is just another collection of professional pols, not much different from the guys and gals who gathered behind Gingrich and then Denny Hastert, with the same ratio of nutters, ideologues, incompetents, egomaniacs, and borderline crooks spread among the usual mass of grinning mediocrity. And I realized that here was the real message of this week. The Democrats aren't celebrating the triumph of women in politics, not really. They're celebrating the triumph of politics over everything."
Andrew Ferguson