Posted on 02/12/2010 4:59:51 PM PST by BAW
Even if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are able to pull their legislative hat trick on Obamacare, as reported earlier this week by Congress Daily, it looks like support for such a measure among House Democrats is crumbling.
Note this statement today in a Politico piece on a "seething feud" between Pelosi and President Obama:
"Though Pelosi and other House Democrats have made it clear that they’re angry with the Senate, they’re also frustrated with the president, upset that he hasn’t come to terms with the problems of getting legislation through the upper chamber — or done enough to overcome them.
“'He wants a jobs bill, we get a jobs bill,' the official said. 'He wanted health care, we got health care. Then the answer is, ‘You just need to twist enough arms to pass the Senate bill.’ You can twist arms if you’ve got a handful of them to twist. You can’t twist over 100 arms. There needs to be some reality check there.'”
Taken literally, that statement suggests that more than 100 House Democrats are potentially ready to walk away from Obamacare if given the opportunity.
It appears from the Politico report that loyalty to the Obama agenda has been put on hold by many congressional Democrats, as the same unnamed official continued:
“'Both ends of the Capitol — the House and the Senate — are starting to wonder if they’re on their own,' the official continued. 'You have a lot of frustration there. And the White House’s reaction to all of that seems to be, ‘Run against Congress’ — which, as you can imagine, doesn’t go over very well with House members. The White House reaction seems to be, ‘Position ourselves against Congress.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Pop Corn time!
Heh heh
We all know she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
It’s just amorphous moodiness.
I know she is only one more face lift away from a beard.
>>You can’t twist over 100 arms. There needs to be some reality check there.’”
That’s because they remember the Ben Nelson “drop”.
FAIL!
Thanks God!
“I know she is only one more face lift away from a beard.”
A Van Dyke, as the old joke goes....
Giggle
I am so upset, I think that I am going to cry myself to sleep tonight. Hope and Change, gone forever.
OMG. I can’t stop laughing.
Obama has managed to destroy his own coalition. Pretty good for an amateur! LOL
Git 'long, liddle kitties!
rrrrrrRRROOOOWWWEEERRR!!...hiss,hisss,hissss...
Cats just don't herd.
The Kommiekazi Corps must be getting hesitant to take off...MORE SAKI!
a “seething feud” between Pelosi and President Obama:
Ya can’t be a decent liberal unless your seething most of your life
Well, that’s good news... but I always thought that support would crumble anyway. I was saying that right after the election. I figured that “reality” would intrude upon “platitudes”... :-)
They are ALL sharks and can thus smell blood in the water from miles away!
This really makes me laugh, especially when I recall how Nancy chortled, when they got their super majority, how nothing is going to stop her agenda. Her own party is against her.
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