"...forcefully and effectively."

That's our Nancy.

And that's how Juan Cole describes the intervention of Speaker in waiting Pelosi which derailed administration plans to use the CIA as a conduit for campaign cash in the scheduled (if increasingly improbably) elections in Iraq.

Commenting on a Time Magazine report, Cole goes on...

She appears to have mobilized a bipartisan "powerful women" network with Rice, whom she strong-armed...

Get that? Nancy Pelosi "strong-armed" Condi Rice. It's the kind of thing you can do when you're in the right instead of on the right.

Just imagine what she could accomplish if she worked out of the big chair in the front of the House.

Just imagine the impact a few more dollars in a few key places could have in putting her there. Or if a few more bodies walked a few more blocks in some critical districts.

Then click here and just make it happen.