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Democrat trap: Pelosi's wrath or voter backlash
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
November 6, 2009
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 still looking at it.' Well, now
you've had it for a week, the vote is any day now. What are you going
to say?" Better just to stay in Washington and avoid potentially
uncomfortable scenes.
The problem is, those constituents, perhaps 10,000 of them, came to
Capitol Hill Thursday to raise the issue in person. They came to the
"House Call" rally organized by Republican leaders, but they
desperately wanted to get a message to the 52 moderate Blue Dog
Democrats who hold the fate of PelosiCare in their hands
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrat-trap_-Pelosi_s-wrath-or-voter-backlash-8491417-69329187.html