Posted on 04/14/2011 6:41:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nancy Pelosi snaps at White House adviser Gene Sperling
By: John Bresnahan and Jonathan Allen April 14, 2011 08:47 AM EDT
In a tense moment that may well have encapsulated the frustrations of three-plus months in the minority, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi snapped at a top presidential economic adviser, Gene Sperling, during a closed-door meeting between White House aides and House Democratic leaders Wednesday.
“Maybe you could consult with us just once,” Pelosi said, according to one source’s account. Others confirmed the basic content of the stand-out barb from the former speaker in the midst of an active but largely cordial meeting.
At the time, Sperling was discussing the form and mission of a new bipartisan congressional working group the president wants to charge with establishing a deficit-reduction plan. In the president’s view, it would consist of 16 members, plus the vice president as chairman, and finish up by the end of June.
House Democratic leaders didn’t like the size of it, the reporting date, which falls very close to the deadline for raising the debt ceiling, or the perception that a White House plan had been baked without input from the president’s allies on Capitol Hill.
Sperling told Pelosi that the White House welcomed House Democratic input and that the plan wasn’t set in stone. Get your thoughts together, he told the Democratic leaders, and sent them on down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Heck yeah!
Priceless!
What did she snap at him?
Awesome!!!
Mr. T...gimme some. ;o)
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