Nancy Pelosi perma-grins and bears it as she hands speaker's gavel to John Boehner

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Post:

Why is this woman smiling?

Nancy Pelosi smiled and applauded on the House floor Wednesday afternoon as the clerk read the tally of the vote that formally ended her speakership.

She smiled even as 19 of her Democratic colleagues, one-tenth of her caucus, called out their votes symbolically opposing her as their new minority leader.

By the time she handed the oversized gavel to John Boehner, her emotional successor as House speaker, he was weeping with the flow rate of a lawn sprinkler. Yet Pelosi smiled still.

It was the same joyless perma-grin - really, a grimace with upturned corners of the mouth - that came to define Pelosi during her four years in charge of the House: an expression meant to connote her warmth and sincerity that too often conveyed the opposite.

But there was a genuine reason for Pelosi to smile as she surrendered the gavel: She was returning to a job that suits her better.
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