Pelosi Arrives, Eating Chocolate and Breathing Fire, And Hails Obama as a "Disrupter."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane was late arriving at DIA, and so she missed  the eating part of her scheduled lunch with a group of Washington columnists and reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor at the Brown Palace this afternoon.

Not to worry. The Speaker got there in time for dessert, and attacked the chocolate mousse with relish as she gave an energetic performance.

“You’re getting me right off the plane, with chocolate,” she said, explaining the exuberance with which she launched salvoes at the Republicans. The GOP has “taken us into war, into debt,a decline in the economy, a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis,” Pelosi said. “There isn’t an area of public policy this administration has not failed in.”

Pelosi, predictably, hailed the choice of Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate. She called the 65-year-old Biden “the All-American boy” with the right mix of experience and independence.

The Speaker said the nation’s capital was “a city of status quo,” ruled by special interests that can frustrate the best of efforts. “You have to know the territory so you can work it,”Pelosi said she warns freshmen representatives, “but you can never become apart of it.”

Biden, with 36 years in the Senate, will balance Obama’s relative inexperience in Washington, said Pelosi.

But “not being around a long time ain’t a bad thing,” she said. “Our founders were disrupters. Martin Luther King was a disrupter.”

In an Obama administration “the leverage is no longer going to be with the super rich – it’s going to be with the working class families of this country.

“We need that disruption,” she said.

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