This is a leadership style I can appreciate. So I started thinking about where this could lead. You know, we're now going to have at least 12, maybe 13, women in the U.S. Senate. We are slowly inching, in other words, into real visibility. Which means that we'll be inching into audibility, too.
People use analogies, of course, to make complex things easier to understand.
And the language that makes things clearest for each of us depends on what we know. Simmons came by her housecleaning analogy honestly. Her mother, who left school after the seventh grade, was a maid. Not that these make up the sum total of their backgrounds, but then, sports and war are hardly the sum total of other politicians' experiences. The fact is, it's hard to come up with direct translations for much of the political vernacular.