The not-farewell address Nancy Pelosi delivered Thursday captured the quintessence of her history-making career.
The departing House speaker was, as ever, immaculately turned out. She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.
She read, dutifully, from prepared remarks that were filled with the typical exhortations and platitudes — a reference to the "Star Spangled Banner," a paean to the Capitol and its moon-glow dome at night — that pepper her often-uninspiring speeches.
