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"We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress," she said. "We're here to do the job for the American people."

What is it about these people — their rhetoric and their actions never seem to match?

I am confident that Madame Pelosi and Capt. Zero are perfectly willing to throw fellow Dems under the bus in the next election, if that's what it takes to pass this poison-pill healthcare "reform" legislation. I imagine they believe the electoral carnage will be confined to the Blue Dog Dems — which Pelosi would love to get rid of anyway: It is they who are "dividing" the Democrat Party, dotcha know?

However, evidently she believes the electoral carnage will not be so great as to endanger her Speakership of the House. That is, she believes post-election, the Dems will still have a majority in the House. I guess she is placing her bets accordingly. She may be grossly underestimating the public revulsion to the proposed Dem sponsored- and controlled legislation, especially in matters relating to health care, national security, economic, fiscal, and energy policy....

If I were a Blue Dog Democrat, I would be noticing such things....

Pelosi lives in Fantasyland anyway. Maybe she should go run for office there.

Thanks so much for the post, tobyhill!