Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP - AP

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Apparently, Nancy has had enough of taking things off the table at the White House's command.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_pelosi_checking_obama

Their partnership is strained after an election in which Pelosi and many Democrats feel the White House failed them by muddling the party's message and being too slow to provide cover for incumbents who cast tough votes for Obama's marquee initiatives.

Pelosi will lead Democrats "in pulling on the president's shirttails to make sure that he doesn't move from center-right to far-right," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., a co-chair of the liberal Progressive Caucus in the House. "We think if he'd done less compromising in the last two years, there's a good chance we'd have had a jobs bill that would have created real jobs, and then we wouldn't even be worrying about having lost elections."

She's played that role before. When Democrats panicked after losing their Senate supermajority last winter, Pelosi rebuffed feelers by then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and others to settle for a smaller health care bill. She derided the approach as "kiddie care" and pushed forward with the sweeping overhaul she painstakingly steered through the House by a razor-thin margin.

A more recent example is Pelosi's stated refusal to consider extending Bush-era income tax cuts for the highest brackets past their January expiration. Obama's aides recently signaled he might be open to doing so temporarily if that were the only way of preserving the tax cuts for the middle class — a bargain the president had steadfastly resisted before the election.

[LaurenG]

1. We need some movement in DC. I hope she can work that out. nt

[demosincebirth]

2. Don't get me wrong, but Obama needs a kick in the ass. I still support him, but he

needs to put on the brass-knuckles and stop trying to compromise with those who have sworn to stop his agenda. Screw 'em!

[Me.]

3. Gppd, Because Otherwise We'll Have A One Party House

"A band of centrist Democrats who last week failed to oust Pelosi in favor of a fresh, more moderate face for the party is ready to side with Republicans on key issues next year. They say they're eager to work with Obama and the GOP on middle-of-the-road initiatives that are unlikely to be embraced by Pelosi or her liberal allies”

“Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., said Democrats learned from the last two years and their shellacking at the polls that "we need to be more aggressive with the White House. They were looking for what was acceptable and then moving toward that, instead of what was important, and moving toward that," Higgins said. "We need to be true to our principles."

[Poboy]

4. Its both shocking and repulsive that she feels the need to do this, but this is what its come to.

Shocking and repulsive that the Democratic president hates his base.