{"id":185292,"date":"2011-08-06T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/06\/pelosi-got-played\/"},"modified":"2011-08-06T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:28:00","slug":"pelosi-got-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/06\/pelosi-got-played\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Got Played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that John Boehner convinced Nancy Pelosi that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/08\/pelosi-boehner-was-supposed-to-have-218-votes-for-debt-limit-deal.php?ref=fpa\">he could supply the required majority for the debt ceiling deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I also think, though, that passing something and getting it over with and moving on was necessary and compared to default it is preferable because default would really lose a lot of jobs. That is my way of saying, I don&#8217;t think this is the best path we could have taken. And especially I&#8217;m unhappy about the fact that this was developed with a premise that the Republicans would have the 218. Since they didn&#8217;t we should&#8217;ve had more influence.<\/p>\n<p>I was in all the meetings, I&#8217;m not saying that isn&#8217;t the case. But if we had days, instead of backed up to hours, we could have said &#8216;you don&#8217;t have the votes, let&#8217;s go back in and how do we move this way in order to cut some of those cuts and have a better bill and get the votes.&#8217; So I think we could&#8217;ve done better. I think they were successful at just prolonging it to the last minute so that we didn&#8217;t have that option and it was default or no default.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I do think that Pelosi is the best of the Democratic leaders in Washington, it&#8217;s clear that she got played.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear from early in this debate that there would have to be a significant number of Democratic votes for this to pass.  The Teabaggers were saying that they would vote against this under <b>any<\/b> circumstances, and Eric Cantor doing his level best to sabotage Boehner, because he wants to displace him as speaker.  (Not gonna happen.  Republicans will never vote to put a Jew 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in line to the presidency)<\/p>\n<p>Not one of her finer moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that John Boehner convinced Nancy Pelosi that he could supply the required majority for the debt ceiling deal: I also think, though, that passing something and getting it over with and moving on was necessary and compared to default it is preferable because default would really lose a lot of jobs. That is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}