Melinda Henneberger, who joined the Huffington Post after years at Newsweek and the New York Times, took her daughter (Henneberger is married to Washington Post writer and Al Gore biographer Bill Turque) to some of the festivities for new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

Della, who is 10, liked the speeches and the Italian wedding cookies but was most intrigued when I mentioned that the Speaker of the House is third in line for the presidency: “You mean that if President Bush got impeached and Dick Cheney had a hunting accident, she’d be president?’’ Uh, yes. (Where DO they get this stuff?)