Nancy's Book

Timing is everything: Michelle Malkin entertainingly reviews Nancy Pelosi’s cliché laden “Know Your Power,” which the Speaker designated as a message to “America’s daughters.” The Malkin verdict? Guess.

With congressional approval ratings at an all-time low and the Democratic Congress under fire for taking a five-week vacation instead of working on energy policy, perhaps this wasn't the best time to send Nancy Pelosi jetting from coast to coast to tell our daughters how to save the planet, manage our households and run our government.

Sorry, Nan. There aren't enough carbon offsets to compensate for this tree-wasting dud and its accompanying gas-guzzling, hot air-emitting publicity tour.

The Speaker is holding an online book discussion today at 3PM EDT/12PM PDT. We'll see how long that gathering lasts.

One thing about the book's Amazon reviews: last week there were over 400, with the average rating being one star. Well, for whatever reason, the vast majority of them have been purged.

I'm less than willing, however, to ascribe sinister motives to Amazon's actions; it's their site and we all know how persistent the bum-rushers can be. At any rate, there are only 48 reviews as of this moment and 37 of the reviewers have given the Speaker's advice to our country's young women but a single star, so it's doubtful that the Speaker will make any entity's bestseller list. Just a hunch.

But now we have a clearer view as to what the Speaker's priorities are for the month of August, don't we?