Nora Desmond Lives!

Judge for yourself:

Crazy Nancy has Carol Burnett AND Gloria Swanson beaten on THAT character impersonation, hands down.

She also exceeds Burnett as a comedianne, without even trying:

PELOSI: I’m never certain of anything. Today, I would be certain. I just think that it is the opportunity for our country to move away from Washington.  You know, I’m the speaker of the House. I’m an outsider in Washington, D.C. .  Business as usual in Washington is not in the people’s interests. It there’s for the special interests.

KING: You would be the ultimate insider, wouldn’t you?

PELOSI: Well, I — you would think. But I…

KING: The speaker of the House isn’t an insider?

PELOSI: Well, they didn’t want me to be Speaker of the House.

KING: But you are.

PELOSI: I had to fight these special interests. And now to make the change, we have to have a Democratic president. And Barack Obama has done more than anyone in terms of passing the toughest ethical bill — ethics bill in Congress, to shed the bright light on transparency on the link between special interests and legislation in Washington.

The "special interest" references are rhetorical masturbation.  EVERY interest is a "special interest".  The biggest knee-slapper is the eleven-term congresswoman, the backroom manipulator who managed to out-maneuver "them" into the #3 post in the entire United States government, going on national television and calling herself an "outsider" with a straight face (Okay, between the facelifts and the botox, Pelosi's face is always straight, but you get the idea).  The "toughest ethics bill" that she credits to The One is quite a gut-buster as well.

But then Speakerette Funbags is simply the emblematic face of a party whose idea of a "serious violation of ethics rules" is not Harry Greed's filthy Nevada land deals or Lucifer's millions of dollars in pork directed to his presidential campaign's fundraising bundlers or Robert Byrd even getting up in the morning [Yes, the "no-Ted-Kennedy-jokes-while-he-battles-brain-cancer" moratorium remains unbreached], but anti-earmark crusader Tom Coburn (R-OK) delivering babies for free:

The Senate Ethics Committee has told Republican Senator Tom Coburn that he’ll be engaged in a “serious violation of Senate rules” if he continues delivering babies back home in Oklahoma.

Coburn’s response: So what?

“On my own time, I’m taking care of women who have a need, and I’m going to continue to deliver babies,” Coburn, an obstetrician, told Politico. “I’m not going to stop.”

Coburn would not say specifically whether he has actually delivered a baby since the June 22 deadline set by the Ethics Committee, but he made it clear that he could deliver one any day now — and thereby force the Ethics Committee to put up or shut up.

Senator Coburn has single-handedly done what the entire Democrat majority in both houses claimed they were going to do when they took over this Congress: fight against pork, earmarks, and corruption and for ethics, "transparency," and fiscal responsibility and accountability.  He, um, "delivered"; they didn't.  And for that he must be punished.

I keep reading and hearing that the Republican "brand" is in the toilet because they spent the Bush years overspending and indulging in the fiscal trappings of Beltway power.  I can buy that as far as it goes, but I've never understood, and never will, how replacing them with the party that created Big Government and wrote the book on Congress' "culture of corruption" in the first place was ever any kind of solution to that problem.  The Democrats spent the Bush years doing everything they possibly could to discredit themselves and give the voters every reason to keep the GOP in the majority permanently, no matter how far from fiscal discipline they strayed.  They were, are, and always will be fiscally corrupt, philosophically corrupt, and morally corrupt.  They ought to be renamed the Corrupticrats.  The hamhanded witchhunt against Senator Coburn is redundant proof of it.

And yet this is the party that is headed for "filibuster-proof" majorities this November?

That's the biggest joke of all.

Pity there's nothing the slightest bit humorous about it.