"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
17 November 2006Quote of the weekTime is going through this tedious "Person (formerly "Man") of the Year" exercise, and to no one's surprise, there have been the usual suggestions from the usual suspects. At one of the Timese Machine's obligatory media gatherings, former Congressman Tom DeLay tossed out a curve ball:
"I think the real Person of the Year ought to be Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House. She worked for years putting a strategy together, building a huge coalition. She held the Democrats together in the House like I have never seen before. She is going to change America!"
I have to assume that DeLay would not be pleased with some of those changes, and there's nothing in the accompanying article to indicate that he was simply being snarky, so I'm filing this under "Wary Respect," a couple of tabs behind, say, Reed Richards and Prince Namor. (Via E. M. Zanotti's sidekick Thad.) Posted at 7:20 AM to QOTWHm. I'd file it under "cringing sycophancy" myself. Maybe he's afraid that if he displeases her she'll unleash her deadly neck tendons and tear him limb from limb. Posted by: Andrea Harris at 7:31 PM on 17 November 2006 |