It is to laugh

Rico says he remembers Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as a rather useless supervisor of the City of San Francisco. Now that's she's speaker of the house (and how did that happen? She doesn't hold a candle to previous Speakers, including Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn, Carl Albert, and Tip O'Neill), of course, she plays in different circles:
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), a prominent opponent of the Iraq war, said: "She reminded the rank-and-file here not only do we matter, but we're an equal branch of government, and she reminded the president we're no longer a cheap date."
"I think it's important for the government of Iraq to know that they're going to have to take responsibility for the security of their own country, and soon," Pelosi said.

Frighteningly, according to the federal succession statute currently in effect, "the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress is second in line for succession to the presidency; should the president and vice president be unable to serve, the speaker would become president."