“I will say this about John Boehner, and I have a good relationship with him,” Pelosi, now the House minority leader, said on Monday on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.” “If he were a woman, they’d be calling him the weakest speaker in history.” [...] “You know what, if a woman was speaker and nothing was happening in this way, they’d say, ‘Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh,’” Pelosi said. “I’m just getting a little, shall we say, tired of some of the ways they take a pass on some things and not on others. We get criticized for accomplishing things. They don’t get criticized for not accomplishing things.”

Nancy Pelosi has a moment of very public telling it like it is Yup, true. For all his ineffectiveness, Boehner is getting the benefit of the doubt from the media on two fronts: He's a man, and he's a Republican. He doesn't get questioned and sniped about in the myriad ways Pelosi endured as speaker, and it should be said. Because, damn, Boehner is a bumbling loser, yet next time Pelosi—or another Democratic woman—is speaker, she's going to be treated as the weak one. So go, Nancy. Let's get it on the record right now.