Pelosi as Speaker again?

No. I was just listening to callers to Hartmann's show discussing whether Pelosi should be the new Speaker of the House. The number 1 reason for it was her effectiveness. But effective at what? Taking corporate money and raising more of it for the Party. Slow walking financial reform and climate legislation? We don't need that sort of effectiveness. Hence OC joining in the Pelosi office demonstration over climate legislation.

So yes, we need a Speaker with experience to get things done and curry votes. But that Speaker also needs to promote the new ideas of the progressive reps that we voted for this last election. It's time for a progressive wave, meaning a people's wave, in the House. And the next Speaker needs to not just speak for it but to fight for enacting it.