Nancy Pelosi: A Woman's Place is Leading the House of Representatives

Two days after Republicans issued a call for Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi "in her place," Pelosi is telling them she's already there.

On Tuesday, referring to her as "General Pelosi," the National Republican Congressional Committee complained that the speaker had been questioning McChrystal's public call for 40,000 additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan. "If Nancy Pelosi's failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan," said the NRCC, "taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place."

Of course, as the leader of one of two congressional bodies charged with approving both funding and troops, Pelosi already seems be exactly in her place -- and quite comfortably so. On Thursday, she said of NRCC's comments, "I'm in my place. I'm the Speaker of the House, the first woman Speaker of the House, and I'm in my place because the House of Representatives voted me here." Pelosi also suggested that the comments showed the NRCC to be out of touch, calling it sad that "they don't understand how inappropriate that is." She added, "That language is something I haven't even heard in decades."