As you read through this list of House Democratic leaders, we want you to keep in mind one thing: Nancy Pelosi is objectively the most reasonable person in this group.

Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi. Aka the shrill extreme liberal who will convince Democratic primary voters that the country has turned against women in leadership positions. This will cause them to choose someone who is not Hillary to run in 2008. The Republican machine will then handily produce the 17 votes needed to win a pluarlity of people who show up to vote.

John Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Aka the guy who really is dumb enough to try to stop the Iraq War by just cutting funding to the army and telling Bush that either the soldiers come home or they die. No way this can go poorly.

Charlie Rangel, Chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee. Aka one of the last great masters of identity politics, mixing a sense of entitlement, an ethos of victimhood, and uninformed but righteous indignation - all to create a stew of insufferable superiority. People who believe that the public is literally entitled by right to government largess are exactly who you want drafting tax laws. Also, commercial fodder.

John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Aka "the man who's actually written up articles of Impeachment and will now be running House Judiciary"

Alcee Hastings, member of the four-member Select Intelligence Committee. Aka "the federal judge who was impeached for bribery, and to whom will not be entrusted the most sensitive secrets of the United States"

When Pelosi is sworn in, will it be Kos who's holding the Bible? Or do you think they'll get Sheehan, because she's so holy and pure and has Absolute Moral Authority (tm)? Or do you think they'll finally decide not to use a Bible in the public ceremony, after the first three Bibles they practice on spontaneously erupt into flames?

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