The People's Party

Chez Nancy-Pants

“It’s a big jump from high school cafeteria to fancy-pants gourmet. I just wish my pay improved,” said Caryn Schenewerk, a staffer for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

This is just too, too precious.  After one year of being Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and her ruling democrats cannot point to a single accomplishment with positive energy.  Not one.  So this, it seems, is what she has to hang her hat on.  A new, "environmentally friendly and socially progressive" menu in the congressional  cafeteria . “ Newly ascendant Democrats may have hit roadblocks on Iraq and fiscal issues, but they have revamped congressional menus, replacing fatty, pre-made foods with healthier, gourmet alternatives. The once dreary congressional cafeterias now abound with haute cuisine.  The menu transformation is part of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Greening the Capitol” plan to make the House campus more environmentally friendly and socially progressive.  [Pelosi pushes gourmet menu] ” What that means, in a nutshell, is this - San Francisco Bay area snob cuisine for blue plate specials.  "Pan-roasted Chesapeake rockfish with sweet potato fennel hash and yellow pepper relish," replace meatloaf and mashed potatoes. "Vegetables with funny names, like bok choy, arugula and jicama." replace peas and carrots.   Somehow I can't see the guys down the Stoney Creek Democratic Club drinking Chablis and saying "Pass the almond couscous."  Maybe this will, finally,  wake them, and others like them, the hell up. Sheesh.