Rich people are threatening to withold contributions to the Democratic Party if Speaker Pelosi continues to instruct super delagates to act according to the wishes of the voters: 
 

Twenty top Hillary fundraisers and donors have sent a scathing private letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, chastising her for publicly saying that the super-delegates should support the winner of the pledged delegate count and demanding that she say that they should make an "independent" choice. TPM, via Oliver Willis

 
Fearing reprisal from their corporate masters, Republicans remain silent about Tibet. Meanwhile, Speaker Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama: 
 

Happy Easter, Madam Speaker: China's state-controlled media lit into Nancy Pelosi on Sunday for meeting with the Dalai Lama last week in India.

The House speaker was the first major foreign official to call on the exiled Tibetan leader since the outbreak of violence in the capital city of Lhasa earlier this month.

"We insist that the world know the truth about what is happening in Tibet," Pelosi said during the meeting Friday. "If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in Tibet we have lost all moral authority to speak on human rights anywhere in the world."

In commentary published Sunday in the China People's Daily, the official Xinhua News Agency labeled the California Democrat a "muckraker of her own hypocrisy," saying she "challenged her own conscience" when she condemned "China's legitimate actions against violence in Tibet, but turned a blind eye to merciless rioters."

Xinhua complained that "'Human rights police' like Pelosi are habitually bad tempered and ungenerous when it comes to China, refusing to check their facts and find out the truth of the case." The Baltimore Sun

 

Bush Silent, but Others Speak Out on Tibet Crackdown...Mr. Bush himself has remained silent. In the meantime, the presidential candidates are speaking out, as is the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. New York Times

 
Speaker Pelosi has held her ground about Social Security. During George W. Bush's State of Union Address in 2006, Democrats actually applauded when the president reminded them they had refused to act on his Social Security overhaul plan, despite his strong desire to privatize it. 
 

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2008 -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in response to today's reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees:

"This year's trustees report again makes clear that Social Security will be able to pay its full benefits through 2041. However, this trustees' report, the last to be issued by the current administration, reveals another squandered opportunity by President Bush. The Bush Administration decided to place tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans ahead of putting Social Security and Medicare on more solid footing.

"When he inherited a projected $5.6 trillion surplus upon entering office, President Bush could have used some of this surplus to strengthen Social Security and Medicare for the baby boomers and future generations. By turning that projected surplus into a $3 trillion deficit, the President not only failed to protect these twin pillars of retirement security, but also made it more difficult for future policymakers to strengthen Social Security and Medicare.

"The Democratic Congress is committed to keeping the promise of Social Security and Medicare to all Americans." PR Newswire

 
As John McCain struggles to put forth a coherent message about the war and the economy, Nancy Pelosi showed as much resolve and insight in 2002 as she does today. Despite the senate Pelosi is still trying to shore up support for her position on the FISA bill, much to the dismay of the GOP.

 
I think that Pelosi has gotten a bum steer by many in the blogosphere.

There is a meme that is put forth by the media and others that overcoming the Republican's votes in congress is simply a matter of will or discipline, like some climatic scene in action adventure movie. It's my understanding that it doesn't quite work that way. This, more than anything else, has been the problem.

 
Most of the problems are not in the house, they are in the senate. The House of Representatives has done quite well, especially when compared to the 109th Congress [ 2 ]. On December 18, 2007, the Republican minority in the Senate set a new record for requiring more cloture votes than any other Senate in history. The Republicans filabustered 62 separate pieces of legislation in the last year, a record.

"The Democrats' poor batting average in the year since retaking control of Congress is caused primarily by their narrow majority status, which has left them unable to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate, let alone override a presidential veto. On Iraq in particular, Congress this year voted repeatedly to set a timetable for troop withdrawals. Each time, the anti-war measure would scrape by in the House only to sink in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. Democrats caucus with a narrow 51-49 majority." AP

And that whole "just stop the funding" meme was tried during the Vietnam war, and it didn't work then either, and the Democrats had a better margin in those days I believe, and even more public support than they have now. Chuck Colson (of all people!) talked about this at length a while back on CSPAN in relation to the struggles of the present congress. It took the President's resignation to end that war, and you can't impeach the present president for these reasons, and especially this one.

But if people wants to continue to swiftboat Nancy Pelosi, echoing the likes of Chris Mathews and that crowd, then I guess that I will just continue to push against that meme.

 

Chris Matthews and friends say that congress is unable to stop the Iraq war because they lack the "will" or backbone and other fanciful GOP memes.

 

 

Bloggers are mad about the situation, listen to Chris Matthews and his pals, ignore the facts, and blame the Democrats.

 

 

Bloggers do a Team Xerox.

 

 

The Republican Party laughs with glee, collect more money from their corporate sponsors, and think up new crap for Chris Matthews and his merry men to deliver to the public.