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2010-02-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Cherong Glick5042 2010-02-12 05:09|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Pelosis focus is on keeping her majority and her job. She wants to protect vulnerable members, but she also wants to accomplish some big things as speaker. This is a big reason she wants to pass health care reform and focus more on spending money on infrastructure than on cutting taxes for small businesses.

Obama obviously wants to keep control of the House and the Senate, but it would be foolish for him to take his eye off 2012 or his public image. This is a big reason the president is putting so much focus on reaching out to Republicans and making a public show of his bipartisan efforts.

Oh, really?

One Democratic official went further, saying some Democratic House members actually believe that the White House wouldnt mind having a foil, and that foil is a Republican [House] majority that would serve their political purposes going into 2012.

That might be his only chance!

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32863_Page2.html#ixzz0fKEHkl09

Posted by Bobby 2010-02-12 07:42|| 2010-02-12 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 The comments there were pretty funny with the Obmamaniac ranting about people that call Obamao a socialist.

That's true, of course, he, as of now, is more of a corporatist aka fascist. Privatise the profits and socialize the losses. Unfortunately this is all too common a philosophy among members of both parties. Dems however do have a large lead in the category.

Posted by AlanC 2010-02-12 08:08|| 2010-02-12 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Privatise the profits and socialize the losses. AlanC

Check it out.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-12 08:21|| 2010-02-12 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Towel boy for the Oligarchy.

Posted by lex 2010-02-12 08:21|| 2010-02-12 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course she wants to protect her job! Right now she gets to call the Air Force, have them stock up a nice private-type jet with fine hooch, and she and her peeps get dropped off close to her vineyard. San Fran Nan doesn't want to deal with the TSA any more than the rest of us do.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-02-12 09:24|| 2010-02-12 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Pelosi is a bitch that represents a bitch district. We would be better off if her district simply dropped off into the ocean, excepting the loss of life.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-12 09:38|| 2010-02-12 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 How do we know she was irritated---it isn't like her face can move?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-02-12 09:40|| 2010-02-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The levels of non-acceptance and outright denial in both the Pelosi and Obama camps is breathtaking.

She blames him for not supporting her enough in her role as a de facto prime minister??

Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-12 09:52|| 2010-02-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Zero has no plans of his own and outsources everything, deflecting the blame away from himself, whether health care or Gitmo and tribunals. Pelosi vs. Obama--I'll take an extra-large tub of popcorn, no butter, please.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-02-12 10:42|| 2010-02-12 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Here ya' go, Lumpy. :-D

Some parmesan, perhaps?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-12 10:44|| 2010-02-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#11 I feel for the staffers.

Because the White House voted present on the run up to the stimulus bill and the health care bill, the house staffers have run themselves ragged.

Posted by lord garth 2010-02-12 11:00|| 2010-02-12 11:00|| Front Page Top

#12 While I agree OS, I know people who are and were living in that particular district, there are tremors they are upset as well. Some, because she is not leftist enough (case in point the demonstators at her house were upset they were delt with in such an authoritarian manner ironically) and those who consider themselves too trendy to be republicans so they call themselves libertarians.

Now the childish side of me clicked on account of the headline, so I quit at only the mention of bearded lady jokes and settle for a Skeletor.

Lord Garth, have to agree. What we are seeing is mission fatigue; if we were talking about a generic country it would be called overreach sold as reach around. I think politacally there are 6 months most for the last full measure. Keep it up, get involved.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-12 12:46|| 2010-02-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Re: #3, yep beseoker that was one of the incidents that I was thinking of.

I am a firm believer in Free Market capitalism. Not, crony capitalism, corporatism or coporate welfare all of which can rightly be termed fascist and in fact WERE termed as such when Benito started all that ship as a governing philosophy.

Everyone mentioned in that video should be put up against a wall and given a choice......9mm, 5.56 or .308 maybe 12ga just for fun.

Posted by AlanC 2010-02-12 15:07|| 2010-02-12 15:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Even if the Democrats keep their majority in the House, what makes Nancy think she'll be reelected by the Democratic caucus as Speaker?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-02-12 19:07|| 2010-02-12 19:07|| Front Page Top

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