Steyn: Galvanized Grandma

Mark Steyn slices and dices Stretch Pelosi.

I don't know where they stand on apple pie, but the Democrats have come out for motherhood in a big way. In fact, who needs apple pie when you've got the extra-sugary content of The Washington Post?

Last Wednesday the capital's newspaper of record (now available in print, online and in granulated form) published a column headlined "Grandma with a gavel."

Can you guess which grandma it was, boys and girls? Yes, it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has single-handedly, as she put it, "shattered the marble ceiling." And she's right: From CNN to the New York Times, the entire press corps has lost its marbles. Grandma Smith Goes To Washington is the hit of the planet. At a time when most grandmothers are reduced to eating dog food because the Bush administration refuses to let them bulk order prescription drugs from Saskatchewan or, even more horrifying, reduced to watching Robert Goulet in dinner theater night after night in Florida, Granma Pelosi has single-handedly shattered the dinner-theater ceiling and/or dog-kennel ceiling.