“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the al Qaeda strategy…. The al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people…try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.”–Darth Cheney.

Even though it could put the GOP at a strategic disadvantage not to have the sitting vice president running for the top spot, this is one of the times I relish it: the guy is 100-percent free to go out there and say what he has to say in defense of the Administration.

I’ll stop there, lest I say anything nasty about the Speakerette on the day of her brother’s death. That would be rude.

I hain’t been blogging much. Nancy Pelosi has the House working hard after twelve years of corruption and do-nothingness and graft and semi-legalized theivery and whatnot. I’m all tuckered out at nights from all the legislatin’ she has them doing. Solid, meaningful legislatin’ like Sense of the Congress resolutions that die in the Senate.

What’s been the most fun is watching Steny Hoyer navigate his way in the New World Order. He knows what every thinking person knows: he should be the Speaker, and would be a far better and more effective Speaker than the current Speakerette. To fulfill his party’s promise of a more open House, he knew that the Republicans should get either an opportunity to amend the Democrat Iraq resolution or the possibility of referring it to committee. He said as much. Then the word came down from on high that the Speakerette wanted a “clean” vote, so he got stuffed.

The Republicans have a slim chance at regaining a majority in the House in 2008. We would have no chance under Speaker Hoyer; he could cement a solid majority of 230 to 240 members and retain control for a decade or more. Speaker Pelosi, though, is the Republicans’ best ally in the quest to make this a short exile from legislative power.