Nancy Pelosi is a career politician, just as her father was (former Mayor D’ellasandro of Baltimore). She is in an exceedingly safe district for her ideology.

But she is an exceedingly poor Speaker with poor parliamentry skills. One the debate to pass the first “bailout bill” last October, she deliberately insulted and infuriated the minority Republican caucus, whose votes they needed (to a degree) to pass the bill. And she could not muster the party discipline to get enough of her own party to vote for the bill. Applause.
Sections of her caucus (with safe seats, like the CBC) will undoubtedly be “all for this”, and to the Mass Media and networks, this will be like a “stimulus package”. Bread and circuses. Keith Olbermann will have lots of “worst person in the world” to hurl his invective against. And his Obamaness will do nothing to stop it, regardless of his bon homme expressed for GWB the other day. But a lot of centrist congressional Democrats will grow increasingly uneasy with this inquisition. They hold their seats by slim majorities, and this sort of nonsense will alienate the muddled middle and energize the Republicans in 2010 (added on to the discontent of “stagflation” that will be present in the economy, despite all the “stimulus”). The longer this goes on, the more likely that it will fracture the Democratic majority.

They thirst for death.