Pelosi Could Doom Democrats in 2012

Soon To Be Minority Leader
 Nancy Pelosi

It was the dumbest thing the Democratic members of the U.S. House could have done. "It" was making Nancy Pelosi the minority leader of the House, and thus the head of what is now the most liberal congressional delegation in the history of the country. It is already jeopardizing the chances of President Obama and his party to recover from their recent drubbing.

She not only contributed to the shellacking the Democrats suffered she handed out the rollers. She is adding insult to injury by her strong opposition to extending the current tax rates for so-called "wealthy Americans". Those rates are a part of George W. Bush's  tax cut package that was passed nearly a decade ago. Her grandstanding is placing what few moderates she has from her own party in Congress in the line of fire.

Moreover, it puts her at odds with the president. That's not to say he wants to extend these cuts for those who earn over $200,000. Rather, it's to say that, he knows to survive another election, he desperately needs to do so.

The problem is that Pelosi is becoming the left-wing spokesperson and an obstructionist to compromise. This will only hurt her own party and the president. It was Pelosi who was unapologetic for the beating the Democrat Party took in the elections. Now even major media outlets and newspapers are reporting that she is becoming a huge thorn in the side of a president who desperately needs to at least appear more moderate in order to have a prayer of re-election in 2012.
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