Don't 'cha just love fratricide (especially when it's Dem on Dem)?
Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises
By PATRICK O'CONNOR & GLENN THRUSH | 1/5/10 7:04 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises.
A leadership aide said it was no accident.
Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of reporters who immediately hit her with C-SPAN’s request that she permit closed-door final talks on the bill to be televised.
A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.
“There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,†quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31180.htmlIt's getting more and more interesting . . . We live in interesting times!