Tuesday Phone Calls

Nancy Pelosi is lighting up the phone lines of every Demorat she can find.

The words will incorporate threats. And she means each and every one of them.

They will go something like this:

"If you expect to see even one dollar from the DNC in any of your future campaigns, and if you expect your life to be even remotely smoothe, then you'll be voting for whatever ObamaKare package I direct."

The Politico writes in part:

Asked this weekend to grade her performance as speaker, Nancy Pelosi gave herself an “A for effort.”

But Pelosi knows that the real test is still to come.

Now in her fourth year as speaker and eighth overall as the top Democrat in the House, Pelosi has never faced such a daunting set of challenges.

Pelosi suffered a tremendous personal loss with the death of her friend and her most influential ally in the House, Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha. Another of Pelosi’s powerful colleagues, Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, has seen his influence diminished by ethical problems — including an admonishment last week by theHouse ethics committee.

“She doesn’t delegate,” said one House Democrat close to the speaker. “It’s her biggest flaw. She has to have her hand in every decision.”

That means there’s no one else to blame for Democratic setbacks other than Pelosi, and she will have to answer if the party suffers at the polls.

This should come as absolutely no shock whatsoever:

Pelosi “will put a bullet in the head of anyone she needs to,” said a Democratic insider. “Rangel, any incumbent that looks like he’s going to lose. She’ll do anything it takes to keep her majority, anything.”

Finally:

Pelosi and other top House Democrats say publicly that they have the votes to push through a comprehensive (ObamaKare) package, but privately, they know they don’t.

I can only hope.

BZ