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The fight over President Obama's trade agenda has gotten so ugly that one of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's closest friends in Congress accused her of subverting the will of House Democrats at a closed-door meeting of top party leaders on Wednesday, according to five sources.
"With all due respect," Rep. Rosa DeLauro said to Pelosi, you've "misread" the caucus. It might not sound like much, but that's a stiff charge. It suggests that Pelosi, the best vote counter of her era, is either slipping or intentionally undermining her colleagues. That was a bridge too far for Pelosi. Her aides began clearing the room of staff to limit the number of witnesses while she told the lawmakers who remained in the meeting that she's been trying to get the best possible deal for American workers.
Ultimately, DeLauro has become the point of labor's spear in trying to defeat a bill that would give Obama fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals. And Pelosi, who is claiming neutrality, has become a shield giving space for the White House and Speaker John Boehner to shepherd the trade bill through the House floor.<....> VOX
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)I will be quite surprised if you keep your position in the next ca. Election, Disappointment does not even begin to cover it,
ablamj
(333 posts)since she took a certain something off the table...
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)!
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)I miss the old days, Nancy, when you could do no wrong and you were the greatest Speaker ever.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....if her constituents do not support the measure?
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)then it's for joining the President on waging war against America's 99%.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)That would be Sam Rayburn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Rayburn
JI7
(89,260 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)The Grass Roots, the Working Class, and Organized LABOR,
but NOW gives the finger to the ENTIRE Democratic Party, and romances the Hard Core Republicans.
The True Believers told us we would see the "Real" Obama after the mid-terms.
They were right.
You will know them by their WORKS.
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Duppers
(28,125 posts)I did - yesterday.
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