Nancy Pelosi in a Sandy Liang-loved Merrell Photo: Eric Lee/The New York Times/Redux It’s rare that a clog is in the news, but so it is on this Friday late afternoon. Nancy Pelosi, fresh off her emergency hip-replacement surgery, arrived for the first day of the 119th Congress not in her signature heels but in what New York Times reporter Annie Karni referred to as “a shoe that looked vaguely orthopedic.” The Strategist’s middle name might as well be Vaguely Orthopedic, and, of course, we