in it. it s the closed-off world, but america culture loves a winner, and a winning school brings in money, and a winning team, the coach in question, he took the usa gymnastic teams to the olympics in 84. we had never seen that kind of win before. it was celebrated by america at large. jennifer, nice to have you on. i appreciate it. thanks for having me. mitt romney is speaking right now in iowa, picking up a key endorsement. if you want to know what really makes him tick, people got an up close and personal look. plus this thanksgiving week, a helicopter pilot is no doubt thanking his lucky stars. a crash caught on tape.
far from harming the child, fokina and her followers say this dynamics of gymnastic, sometimes called baby yoga, aides in development. my russian friends said, yeah, they start walking more quickly and start talking and start reading at a younger age. but these claims are not supported by scientific evidence. there s been no big scientific study what happens if you take ten babies that flip them and ten babies and you don t flip them. i think at end of the day there s a matter of faith. and there is a small group in russia that do this. they there is a small minority but they have a lot of faith in it. the baby s father, sasha, thinks that fokina, not the girl s mother, is on to something. sasha aent father believes in this. he has gone down to egypt before and spent time with her and i think is a big part of their lifestyle. in fact web still swings his
if you are great, not just good, but great at your sport, you get a medal. simple. but in politics, that can be a more difficult question to answer. how do you define success, how do you know, for example, if a speaker of the house has been successful? one measure of it would be personal ambition, promotion to the next level, but history has not been kind to the ambitions of speakers of the house. few have managed to ascend from this job. for as long as there s been a united states congress, there has been a speaker of the house, and in all that time, all 220 years, only one speaker of the house has ever been elected president. that would be president james k. polk, who successes or lack thereof warrant their own analysis. another way to think about a speaker s success is the sheer amount of work that gets done and how difficult that work is. let s go back to the olympic s comparison for a moment. sports like diving and gymnastic
comparison for a moment. sports like diving and gymnastic are great to the degree of difficulty and quality of execution. speaker nancy pelosi ruled the roost for two congressional terms. in her first term as speaker, in her very first term, over 300 laws originated in the house of representatives and went on to become law. in her second term about 250 laws originated in the house and went on to become law. that s 550 laws, some of which were the political equivalent of a gymnast double back with a double twist, and if you don t know what that is, google it. we re talking about the stimulus, ethics reform, financial reform, minimum wage increase, repeal of don t ask, don t tell, the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, and, of course, health reform. now, under speaker john boehner s leadership, however, just 12 bills have originated in the house have become law. i know i m new, but that was not a typo, i did not misspeak.
sports like diving and gymnastic are great to the degree of difficulty and quality of execution. nancy pelosi, in her first term as speaker, in her very first term, over 300 laws originated in the house of representatives and went on to become law. in her second term about 250 laws originated in the house and went on to become law. that s 550 laws, some of which were the political equivalent of a gymnast double back with a double twist, and if you don t know what that is, google it. we re talking about the stimulus, ethics reform, financial reform, minimum wage increase, repeal of don t ask, don t tell, the lilly better pay act, and, of course, health reform. now, under speaker john boehner s leadership, however, just 12 bills have originated in the house have become law. i know i m new, but that was not