Nancy Pelosi Too Left For Our Own Good?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't inspire much and seems to be too divisive. It's not as if everything needs to be plugged into this bill. Pelosi is acting as if this is the last piece of legislation ever to be written. She's got to give a little. I think she needs a nap.

NYT: Ms. Pelosi and the House majority leader, Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, would not offer up possible items they would be willing to sacrifice when negotiators tried to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate bills.

As far as the criticisms that have arisen over the fact that Republican support for the legislation has been hard to attract, despite President Obama’s calls for bipartisanship, Ms. Pelosi said, “Washington seems consumed in this process argument about bipartisanship when the rest of the country says they need this bill.”

A few sentences later, she said Democrats were sounding a drumbeat across the country about the benefits of the stimulus bill and would step up their efforts and their energy to sell the package. Describing the pride representatives had taken in the product of this bill, she pledged that they would not let “a false argument about process eclipse” the enormity of what the legislation could accomplish.