Pelosi lays down the law with Rahm (The Empire Strikes Back)

[Wretched Excess]

heh.  Nancy:  "This is change that you can stick where the sun don't shine".

heavens.  a lot of us predicted this would happen . . . the turf battles are beginning before anyone officially has turf.   I honestly think that BHO will have problems with the dem leadership before the republican leadership.

Pelosi lays down the law with Rahm

In a recent conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel offered some advice on a Democratic House leadership race. Pelosi’s response, according to several Democratic sources: It is “an internal House Democratic Caucus matter, and we’ll handle it.”

Democratic insiders say there’s no animosity between Pelosi and Emanuel, who’s leaving his post as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus to become the next White House chief of staff.

But the speaker is laying down the law nonetheless.

In talks with Emanuel and others, sources say, Pelosi has “set parameters” for what she wants from Barack Obama and his White House staff — no surprises, and no backdoor efforts to go around her and other Democratic leaders by cutting deals with moderate New Democrats or conservative Blue Dogs.

Specifically, Pelosi has told Emanuel that she wants to know when representatives of the incoming administration have any contact with her rank-and-file Democrats — and why, sources say.

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[NHSparky]

Hmmmm...seems San Fran Nan is none too pleased with the fact she won't be the highest-ranking elected Democrat in DC anymore.

[Eupher]

It's also pretty clear that Pelosi is intimately familiar with the kind of political infighting and backstabbing that goes on Behind the Political Door.

You'd think she actually invented some of that shit.      

[Wretched Excess]

Hmmmm...seems San Fran Nan is none too pleased with the fact she won't be the highest-ranking elected Democrat in DC anymore.

some of the individual egos in washington wouldn't fit in the grand canyon.  the white house vs. congress battle for primacy in driving the agenda, and top billing in getting  the credit in the MSM, will inevitably lead to combustion.

 

[Ptarmigan]

Pelosi is part of a political family dynsaty. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a Congressman for Maryland and her brother was mayor of Baltimore.

[Chris_]

Pelosi is part of a political family dynsaty. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a Congressman for Maryland and her brother was mayor of Baltimore.

If I remember right, both were so crooked, they had to screw on their socks every morning.