Pelosi Hits Throttle on Health Care Bill Despite Democrats' Concerns - Political News - FOXNews.com

Amid the intra-party struggle, Democratic consultant Dan Gerstein penned a column this week calling for Pelosi's ouster.

He told FOX News that on issue after issue, the speaker has hurt the president's efforts to set a new post-partisan tone in Congress.
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The cap-and-trade climate bill that recently passed out of the House and is now in the Senate is a "Frankenstein monster."

Dan Gerstein: Get Rid Of Pelosi - Forbes.com

On Pelosi's watch, Congress screwed up the president's stimulus plan, botched the oversight of the bailouts, rammed through a jerry-rigged, special interest-driven climate-change bill and is now sabotaging the president's top policy priority by producing health care bills that won't reduce health care costs...
...the most troubling finding in that poll for Democrats is about Pelosi: only 24% of Americans say they trust the speaker. That's 11 points lower than for Sarah Palin, who most Democrats contemptuously dismiss as a national joke.

What Senators Kerry and Boxer Got Wrong About Energy and Cap and Trade » The Foundry

The reality is that it will destroy 1.15 million jobs. Higher energy prices ripple through the economy producing slower economic growth and higher unemployment. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis found that, for the average year over the 2012-2035 timeline, job loss will be 1.1 million greater than the baseline assumptions. By 2035, there is a projected 2.5 million fewer jobs than without a cap-and-trade bill. But Heritage isn’t alone in these estimates.

Krauthammer's Take - NRO Staff - The Corner on National Review Online

However, these guys who already are in conservative districts have swallowed hemlock on behalf of the president on cap-and-trade. They have been really wounded on that, extremely unpopular, and it didn't even pass in the Senate. So it was a wasted negative vote...

I'm not sure they want a second swig of that hemlock on health care.