Political Gains for Women Across the Globe

A friend points out that there's good news across the globe today about women and political power. It really is an amazing haul.

Four women have won seats in the Kuwait Parliament to become its first ever female members. The New York Times has pictures of all four. The Times of London has background on the Kuwaiti struggle for women's rights.

The New York Times also has a story about Indian President Sonia Gandhi engineering "a stunning political coup," leading her Indian National Congress party to its best showing in 25 years in last week's parliamentary elections.

And Dalia Grybauskaite, budget commissioner of the European Union, won the presidency of Lithuania -- the first woman to do so. Reuters is among those reporting the news.

The highest ranking woman in our government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been around long enough to be well past the thrill and the honeymoon. In fact, she's been having a rough few days since pitting her word against that of the CIA.

But a new national poll today from Rasmussen found Pelosi is not losing the credibility war over whether the CIA told her it was waterboarding suspected terrorist prisoners. The poll found 43 percent saying it's at least somewhat likely that the CIA misled Pelosi, as she says. Another 41 percent said it's not likely.