Dump Obama, run Nancy Pelosi for president

[daa]

This is fascinating from a Murdock owned MarketWatch <snipets below>

By Darrell Delamaide
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) —
She’s leveraging the need of both the White House and the Republican majority in the lower chamber of Congress for some Democratic votes to pass any deficit compromise to get a voice in the negotiations. She’s confronting the Democratic administration as the only party leader willing to draw some lines in the sand.

Her message is clear and emphatic. “We do not support cuts in benefits for Social Security and Medicare,” Pelosi has repeatedly said.

Pelosi’s mantra: that these entitlement programs aren’t responsible for the recent increases in the deficit and that cuts in these programs would provide no immediate relief.
According to press reports, Pelosi was castigated at one of the recent se melodramatic crisis meetings last week for suggesting once again at this late stage that the debt ceiling issue be decoupled from the deficit debate. Obama, with typical male condescension (remember “you’re likable enough, Hillary,” from a 2008 debate with Hillary Clinton?), told her, according to the reports, that that train had left the station.



The deficit debate itself has been a painful display of willful ignorance and blinkered ideology. Obama’s tactics betray either profound intellectual dishonesty (the political expediency argument) or powerfully willful ignorance (the Krugman view).

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dump-obama-run-nancy-pelosi-for-president-2011-07-13

[Drale]

1. Nancy could never win

If theres one thing the right hates more then African Americans, its women and they have spent years screaming about her, when she was speaker.

[emulatorloo]

2. Murdoch/GOP pot stirring, Divide and Conquer

I've noticed at least one TV Republican Operative parroting FDL talking points about Obama on Hardball last week. There is something going on in Operative Land Right now re attacking Obama from the left.

[CakeGrrl]

4. +1000

Jane Hamsher is nothing but a faux Progressive carrying water for the Rs. President Obama ain't the Trojan Horse.

[SidDithers]

7. +1..nt

Sid

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. She said the same thing about the public option. Typical politician. Makes promises, doesn't deliver

She seems like a nice lady tho.

[emulatorloo]

6. She delivered lots when she was Speaker of the House

Senate Republicans and Blue Dogs fucked a lot of it up.

I'd love to see her in charge again, with a strong Dem Senate majority

[DevonRex]

5. More GOP anti-Obama BS.

[Renew Deal]

8. Nancy voted for every one of the big bills

So how is she different?