Congressional leaders spit fire though Limbaugh gets the headlines

Politico provided this story, which I found on the CBS site, since CBS News (at least the Evening News portion) cannot find any reason to deride Democrats who haven't viciously assaulted small children with hot pokers (or equivalent). This must be a big "oops" for little Miss Couric's rabidly anti-GOP, pro-liberalism, pro-Obama, pro-Keynesian agenda.

Reid, Pelosi Swearing Match Over Omnibus - CBS News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and his deputy, Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D.-Ill.) were called to Pelosi’s office late Thursday night and ultimately prevailed in their argument that Democrats should try to salvage the bill, which includes critical spending increases for vital agencies. But the heated, sometimes profane, exchanges were described as “ugly” by Democrats on both sides of the Capitol. Staff, kicked out in the hall, could hear the yelling, and Pelosi herself seemed a little abashed the next day, joking that nothing her leadership could say to her now would match the night before.

The speaker’s anger was directed primarily at Senate Republicans, who withheld their support even when they had substantial interests in the measure. Pelosi feels that Republicans are gaming the Democrats, who have to be tougher in turn by forcing them to live with the consequences of what she sees as obstruction.

The speaker’s scorched earth alternative, killing the omnibus, was too much for some in her own leadership. But Pelosi’s anger is shared by many House Democrats along with the fear that the Senate debate is being dragged out by Republicans as part of a concerted campaign to pummel Obama even as the young president tries to keep the nation focused on his economic agenda and budget going forward.

With funding running out Friday, Pelosi finally called her members back to Washington to pass the five day extension on a 328-58 vote. Ironically enough, this came after a 218-160 vote in which Democrats killed a Republican alternative that would have cut about $17 billion from the omnibus and come closer to the stripped down alternative the speaker herself had been threatening.

This was not a topic for discussion on the Sunday morning talk shows, though, while the fake news story of Rush Limbaugh being the sould of the Republican Party was on perhaps every single one of them. What is wrong with people?

- jR

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