Captain Queeg still trying to find those stolen strawberries.

“I could never get a babysitter — have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house. … And everywhere I go, women say the same thing” about how hard it is to find the kind of reliable care that would make their family lives calmer and work lives more productive. When it comes to “unleashing women” in a way that would boost the economy, she says, “this is a missing link.”

If reinstated as speaker, Pelosi says, Democrats will be “doing for childcare what we did for healthcare reform”.

Really? That’s the line she’s going with in her argument to give Democrats control of the House? That they’ll look at ObamaCare as a model for taking over the nation’s childcare practices, too? A law so unpopular that two years after taking control of the House railing against the bill Republicans will still be running against it in 2012?

Methinks Nancy needs to get out of San Francisco more often.