Dems Are Fighting: With Each Other

President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be all smiles as the president arrives at the Capitol for his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, but the happy faces can’t hide relationships that are fraying and fraught.

The anger is most palpable in the House, where Pelosi and her allies believe Obama’s reluctance to stake his political capital on health care reform in mid-2009 contributed to the near collapse of negotiations now.

But sources say there are also signs of strain between Reid and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and relations between Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate are hovering between thinly veiled disdain and outright hostility.

In a display of contempt unfathomable in the feel-good days after Obama’s Inauguration, freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) stood up at a meeting with Pelosi last week to declare: “Reid is done; he’s going to lose” in November, according to three people who were in the room.

Titus denied Tuesday evening that she had singled out Reid, but she acknowledged that she said Democrats would be “f—-ed” if they failed to heed the lessons of Massachusetts, where Republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last week.

About these ads

4 comments

Comments feed for this article

January 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm

gumply

Never underestimate this brood of vipers, they may fight with each other but just remember they hate us more and the country more than they hate each other. In the end their desire is to destroy everything this country stands for and they want to bury all of us.

I can’t help thinking that a lot of this is for show. They are constantly pulling this stuff to sidetrack us and get us thinking or looking at something else all the while they are conniving and planning their evil schemes.

They are going to keep thinking up ways to cram healthcare down our throats no matter how much they pretend that they aren’t sure if they can get the votes.

It is a very frightful time to be alive when you have just witnessed one year of devastation to our country by more than half of the congress that took oaths to uphold and defend our Constitution. And the other forty percent did their best to destroy it while they held the power.

We have to be watching, observing and listening so they don’t catch us off guard.

January 28, 2010 at 10:28 am

HistorianDude