Pelosi Could Guarantee Destruction of Democrats

[Geee]

Townhall:

It was the dumbest thing the Democratic members of the U.S. House could have done. And it is already jeopardizing the chances of President Obama to reverse the fortunes of himself and his party. "It" was making Nancy Pelosi the minority leader of the House, and thus the head of what is now an even more liberal delegation of lawmakers.

I find it interesting when a veteran news/talk celebrity like Barbara Walters asks President Obama to respond to Sarah Palin's comment that if she runs for president in 2012, she believes she could win. Obama at first gracefully dodges the question, only to have Walters laugh and condescending suggest that surely he believes he could defeat Palin. So we're to assume automatically that Palin is a lightweight, but that someone like Pelosi is a political pro and an asset to her party.

If Pelosi is such a pro, she should realize that her hard stand of opposing an extension of tax cuts for so-called "wealthy Americans" as part of an extension of the George W. Bush tax cuts is placing what few moderates she has from her own party in Congress in political hot water. Moreover, this puts her at odds with the president. That's not to say he wants to extend these cuts for those who earn over $250,000 as a family. Rather, it's to say that, at least for the short term, he desperately needs to do so.

[saveliberty]

I think that Pelosi had more to do with it than the remaining House Democrats. She won't go without a fight.

 

The challenge for Democrats is that this internal finger pointing isn't going to get at the root causes: this agenda was far too extreme for most Americans in a very sick economy. Pelosi can blame the President but then where in the world was she? (Oh yes, she was writing the legislation (bailouts, Obamacare) that she wants to hang on the President.)^sarcasm

[Geee]

Saveliberty. Can't really say she wrote Obamacare cause she claims to not know what was in it She just jammed down everyones(including her own legislators) throats.