Nancy Pelosi's Power Recipe

...She’s visiting bookstores nationwide...

...you don’t, and you never will.’” She doesn’t provide any examples, but she does say, “It’s going to take a little more time—and a little more disruption—before the secret sauce attitude completely disappears...

...She is contradicting the pledge she made in 2007 at her swearing-in as speaker: “I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship, and I look forward to working with you, [Minority Leader John] Boehner, and the Republicans in Congress for the good of the American people...

...Simplicity 124...

...The Politico reported last week that she said, “When you win an election, you win the majority, and what is the power of the speaker...

...But the only example she provides is a woman who compliments Pelosi’s designer suit on the campaign trail, thinking it is her “favorite pattern...

...She expresses this sentiment soon after she describes fi ghting “the Republicans’ culture of corruption, cronyism, and incompetence...

...In just over 170 pages with large print and wide margins, Pelosi races through her journey “from homemaker to House Speaker...

...She explains, “Their message was, ‘Only we know the secret sauce for success...

...How could he ever have thought I would pick them up...

...That didn’t happen either,” says the 20- year stay-at-home wife and mother...

...She says that the Capitol is “the most beautiful building in the world because of what it represents: the voice of the people”—unless of course the people support drilling for oil...

...Samantha Sault is a deputy online editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD...

...Soon after they met, he asked her to pick up his shirts from the drycleaner while she was there to collect her own...

...Last, Pelosi heralds bipartisan cooperation and quotes her swearingin speech: “Let us all stand together to move our country forward, seeking common ground for the common good...

...To set the agenda, the power of recognition, and I am not giving the gavel away to anyone...

...On the very last page of text she tells women we can discover this “power” in “our roots and our families,” “our faith, our accomplishments, and our values...

...Is this what gives Nancy Pelosi “power...

...Her own experience certainly deserves respect: She didn’t run for Congress until her youngest child was a senior in high school, and she still managed to smash what she calls the “marble ceiling...

...After all, as Pelosi told the Politico last week, she is “trying to save the planet...

...Last Monday she appeared on Today, The View, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...

...Yet, she does...

...It always made me sad when I heard women reply to the question ‘What do you do?’ by saying ‘I’m just a housewife,’” she writes...

...We are from different parties but we serve one country...

...He “assumed that the only thing I could be doing at fi ve in the afternoon was cooking,” she says— never mind that she happily stayed home “cooking meals for fi ve children for 20 years...

...Pelosi warns young women about “The Secret Sauce Club” among men “in Congress, a corporation, a boardroom, or a campus...

...She complains about the “double standard” in “the way in which the press—and the public, too—examines a woman candidate’s clothing and hair down to the millimeter...

...Not only will Nancy Pelosi’s mommy state provide women with quality child care, but it will also provide affordable health care, affordable college tuition, and address “the global climate crisis...

...She says more women could run for offi ce if they had access to “quality child care...

...She even gives some good advice to modern girls...

...My message to women is to place a higher value on the experience of being a mother and homemaker...

...We do, too—although we didn’t need to read her memoir to learn it...

...Know Your Power is short—both in length and substance...

...She added, “I don’t make a big issue of it...

...She doesn’t explain what this means or who will pay, although we can guess...

...Even Pelosi’s husband Paul is at fault...

...After we were married, he once asked me to iron a shirt...

...In a recent CNN interview, Pelosi said she has “no plans” to schedule a vote on it because she opposes drilling in “protected areas...

...She adds, “I consider my role in politics as an extension of my role as a mom...

...What’s her excuse for her recent stand...

...At this point the book seems to be tanking...

...She writes that her youngest child, “who hadn’t been born yet, often says to me that she knows everything she needs to know about me by hearing that story...

...She chronicles her childhood in Baltimore as the daughter of Democratic congressman and mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., her entry into California politics distributing fl iers for Democratic candidates while pushing a stroller, and the political rise that led her all the way to election as the fi rst female speaker of the House...

...Nancy Pelosi encourages young women to forge their own paths, but explains that women will only succeed with the help of Pelosi’s selfproclaimed “San Francisco values”: “community, individual rights, and protection of the environment...

...She encourages America’s daughters to run for office and gain “many more seats at the table,” but why would they want to when they read her complaints...

...And if readers need more evidence of Pelosi’s “bipartisanship,” she provides an anecdote early in her book...

...But her positive message is diminished by the tiresome feminist complaining that fills the “self-help” book’s pages...

...BY SAMANTHA SAULT Although 73 percent of Americans favor offshore drilling, Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t allow the House of Representatives to vote on the Republican bill to lift the drilling ban...

...When the perfect house finally became available, Nancy learned that the owner was moving to Washington to join the Nixon administration—and she “could never live anyplace that was made available because of the election of Richard Nixon...

...Pelosi complains that when San Francisco mayor Joe Alioto phoned to ask her to join the city Library Commission, he asked if she was “making a great big pot of pasta e fagioli...

...she asks, apparently unfamiliar with the idea that friends do each other favors...

...Despite her own story, Pelosi told Today host Meredith Vieira on Monday, “I think sexism is all-pervasive in our society...

...She tells America’s daughters that they can achieve anything if they “know their power...

...While this important legislation stalls in the House, the speaker is traveling the country to promote her new memoir, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters (Doubleday, $23.95...

...When the Pelosis moved to San Francisco, they couldn’t fi nd a house for months...