Nancy Pelosi takes a jab at Barack Obama’s campaign promises

  Emerging from a closed door meeting, the leader of the House’s most open and honest session in history, Nancy Pelosi, faced the reporters. When Nancy Pelosi was challenged to air the healthcare reform debates on television, and when she was reminded that it was Barack Obama who as a candidate promised to run the most open administration in history, she had an interesting response. She said, “there are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail.”

  This seemed to be a little jab at the president for not quite living up to all of the promises he made during the campaign. There seems to be a little sarcasm in Nancy Pelosi’s response, and it turns out that Nancy Pelosi is indeed a little miffed with Barack Obama.

  As we can read here, Nancy Pelosi is not too happy with the pressure that is being put on her to accept the senate version of the bill in its entirety, while being asked to throw away the bill that the House worked so long on.

  Nancy Pelosi is particularly upset about the tax that the senate bill will apply to people who have “Cadillac” healthcare insurance plans. She views this as a broken promise by Obama because there are many middle class union members who have these plans, and they will be taxed.

  There are still many issues that have to be worked out on healthcare reform, and all of these issues are within different factions of the Democrat party. The pro-life and pro-choice Democrats have issues, as do the public option and non-public option Democrats. And now we have Nancy Pelosi publically taking shots at Barack Obama in much the same manner as she did when President Bush was in office. Meanwhile, the Republicans remain united against the bill and can just sit back and watch the Democrats fight it out with each other.

  It is fun to watch, and I think the rift that appears to be growing between Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama is symptomatic of a larger problem that is growing in the Democrat party. They have a super majority and yet they still can’t pass anything without fighting with each other. As the polls get worse for the Democrats and as more and more people turn away from them, I expect to see their infighting become more intense as they begin to look out only for themselves as the election draw closer.