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So long as Pelosi controls post-Cong "opportunities," members will be mr afraid of her than their constituents http://tinyurl.com/yalytuo 13 days ago |
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If yr Rep doesnt care abt losing seat, what pwr do ppl have over him? Pelosi gets him a big job if he loses http://tinyurl.com/yalytuo 13 days ago |
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If yr Rep doesnt care abt losing seat, what pwr do ppl have over him? Pelosi gets him a big job if he loses http://tinyurl.com/yalytuo #tcot 13 days ago |
BYRON YORK: Democrat Trap: Pelosi’s Wrath Or Voter Backlash. Sounds like a pretty easy choice to …
Instapundit —
BYRON YORK: Democrat Trap: Pelosi’s Wrath Or Voter Backlash. Sounds like a pretty easy choice to me . . . .
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Pelosi to House caucus: You can’t go home again
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Pelosi to House caucus: You can’t go home again posted at 10:55 am on November 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Byron York and the Washington Post agree on Nancy Pelosi’s plan to vote on her health-care bill this Saturday — she can’t afford to let Democrats go home to their districts before the vote. In fact, as John McCormack notes, she can’t even afford to keep her promise to have the bill on line for 72 hours before the vote so that their constituents can know what they’re doing. If they went home to face their ...
Townhall.com Staff: Behind Closed Doors: The Obamacare Arm Twisting Begins
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Guest post from Ernest Istook with the Heritage Foundation The heat is happening behind closed doors as the U.S. House prepares for a Saturday showdown vote on health care. Access is everything. By keeping Members of Congress in Washington, D.C., this weekend, Democratic leaders keep them away from angry constituents back in their home states, where the Members normally would depart from Friday to Monday . (Note: The tactics aren’t different from what Republicans sometimes used when they held the majority.) The first step is to keep Congress in town. The second is to keep them ...
Why the Hurry?
PoliPundit.com —
The reason Pelosi wants a vote on Obamacare tomorrow:
The House is in the final rush toward passage of a national health care bill, and there’s one thing Speaker Nancy Pelosi absolutely, positively does not want her Democratic lawmakers to do: Go home.
“You meet constituents and get an earful from them — that’s the last thing she wants,” says a key House Republican aide. “If you were a Democrat, and you went home last weekend and were asked about the health care bill, you could say, ‘I’m ...
Will There be a Vote on Health Care Tomorrow?
The Moderate Voice —
... Nancy Pelosi has assured us that there will be. Of course, the job of House Speaker is much like being a bookie for organized crime… you never take a bet when you don’t know how the game will end. Byron York explains how this is putting a lot of Democrats under the gun. ...
Pelosi Subverts The Process; Why Am I Not Surprised?
California Conservative —
... Democrats voting for this bill will pay a steep political price. Byron York aptly writes that the idiots following Pelosi are more afraid of her than they’re worried about their constituents. That’s why I’m calling for the next phase of the movement to be starting up highly visible PACs that pledge to defeat any Democrat that votes for this bill, starting with representatives like Tom Perriello, Tim Walz, Walt Minnick, Earl Pomeroy, Betsy Markey and Baron Hill. ...
Democrat trap: Pelosi's wrath or voter backlash
The New Editor —
Byron York:
There are dozens of Democrats representing districts where a majority of voters have serious misgivings about national health care. And yet many will end up voting for their party's bill. Why?
"The thing that Pelosi has going for her right now is that a lot of her members are more afraid of her than they are of their constituents," says the GOP insider. He notes that Pelosi has plenty of weapons to make life miserable for members who cross her -- "any benefits the member can have for the remainder of this Congress, the kind of support they'll ...
