Already, Nancy Pelosi has something on Sam Rayburn, Carl Albert, and all her other predecessors. She was introduced with an apparent reference to a rap song.
“House Democrats are down with the NDP,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic Caucous Chair, paraphrasing a line from Naughty By Nature’s “O.P.P.” With that, the most racially, ethnically and gender-diverse House in history gave a rapturous standing ovation for the new Speaker of the House.
Meanwhile, up Pennsylvania Avenue, Donald Trump sat fretting over the lack of support for his border wall, plus an op-ed by incoming Senator Mitt Romney that questions his leadership, and mounting pressure from the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“You gots to leave,” Treach raps later in the song. “Come grab your coat, right now you gotta go.”
LOST IN THE NOISE 