I
wasn't planning to watch the State of the Union last night. I.Cannot.Stand. to
see or hear George Bush, and find I'm less prone to self-flagellation if I can
read about what he says after the fact rather than experience
it first-hand.
For whatever reason, however, I just let the
TV run when the scene in the Capitol building came up on my screen last evening.
And then something totally unexpected happened.
When the
pre-speech hullabaloo died down and Nancy Pelosi took her place on the dais, pounded
the gavel and introduced the president, I started to get a little misty. It
started out slow, then it continued to grow.
I certainly
wasn't planning on a full-blown emotional explosion as I witnessed history being
made, but certain physical signs started to indicate that was where I was
headed. I thought of the six critical
bills the
new Congress has already passed as Pelosi had pledged to do in the first 100
hours of her new gig, and I struggled further to hold back my emotion with all
my might. I saw that my husband, Scott, was going through the same exact thing.
The snorting always gives you away.
At the moment when Bush
recognized Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House, and I fully
felt the impact of seeing Congresswoman Pelosi sitting behind
Bush, next to Cheney, third in line to the presidency, in the same seat from
which Dennis Hastert had meanly stared back at us for so many years prior,
I knew I had to give in.
The moment was too huge and I just
totally lost it. Scott did too. We grabbed each other by the hand and had a full
on crying fit, an emotional release, inspired to see a woman take her long
overdue place of power in our government, and overcome with gratitude that
change has come to Washington.
Then we turned the TV off.
4 comments:
I had the same damned reaction and I'm a straight MAN.
And I'm fucking PROUD of it.
Pardon me for blogwhoring, but I wrote about it too: http://apenwarmedinhell.blogspot.com/
But nowhere near as elegantly as you, thank you for that.
~nyc
Please take the communist Pelosi home with you, so you can cuddle up with her, and spare the rest of us the torture of seeing a communist as House Speaker.
It was an amazing day/night for the US and the rest of the world, there is hope for the country. A woman with a clue, and who hopefully can get this countries issues back in the spotlight, and not Iraq 24/7, of which I could care less what happens there. It should be all women on that dais in my book, well as long as none are from the GOP.
i dont think just because someone ant sing they should be belittled, most americans work hard for a living and simply trying to be someone in life, too bad no has seen simons children if he does have any.
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