From the San Fran Chronicle:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears to command
more votes in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations than the speaker of the House, Republican
John Boehner of Ohio.
That's because the San Francisco Democrat leads a unified caucus whose votes
will be needed to pass any deal to avert more than $600 billion in tax increases
and spending cuts come Jan. 1. Boehner's Republicans, by contrast, are rebellious and fractured, having abandoned their leader.
"She's got to be sitting back and smiling at all of this right now," said Jim Manley, formerly a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "She's got some pretty good cards to play."
Pelosi and other top congressional leaders met with President Obama on Friday. Reid and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell promised to try to come up with a deal by Sunday.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Rep-Nancy-Pelosi-back-in-driver-s-seat-4154861.php#ixzz2GazJMPnx
If anybody thinks that a Republican will stop and listen and vote with Pelosi, they are a bunch of crackheads.
No GOP member would sink that low. They might not agree with Boehner but they certainly are not going to listen to Pelosi.
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