Two days after Nancy Pelosi had to redo her business cards to say "Madame Speaker," the fall-out of the election is still falling out. Pelosi yesterday gave kind of a victory lap press conference where she made a few jokes, tried not to sound too giddy, and said bipartisan about twice every minute. For those of you wondering how good of a job she could do as the Dem leader despite her obvious lack of television charisma, wonder no more-- she started off her press conference with a cute homily about children being the future and God help us whenever a politician says children are the future.

The fun's just beginning, however, as Nancy is all set to meet with the President at a let bygones-be-bygones lunch. Pelosi has to try and pretend she didn't really mean to call Bush "incompetent" and "dangerous" while W. has to pretend he didn't really mean to call her a "cut-and-runner" whose victory would be a victory for terror. Isn't politics fun?

During her press conference, she promised to go through with her "100 Hour" plan and start on it once the gavel is all hers. And yes, she did say no-way, na-huh to impeachment. And for those of you thinking that it's a no brainer to impeach, let us remind you that by all accounts, the smart thing to do is start investigating a little and see where the string takes you. Remember Watergate was about a break in to an office and it turned into much, much more. Not that we're saying impeachment will happen, but never say never.

As typical, the debate about What It all Means. Pelosi said "bipartisan" but her eyes said "go medieval on their ass." The New Republic, meanwhile, is already dreaming of Democratic plots against her while Fox News is discovering a little-known Minority Speaker position. And once again proving how off we are in our happy little island, Beyond Chron is saying the Democrats really lost because they were too conservative while pundits said they won because they were too conservative but the wingnuts think the Dems won't win again because Pelosi is too liberal and because they're secretly IM'ing Osama in her spare time and sharing recipes and terror plots.