Nancy Pelosi, who met with her caucus today to gauge support for the deal, has not announced yet whether she’s in favor of it. More specifically, the question of whether Dem leaders will actively press members is key to gauging the proposal’s prospects for success. And it looks like they aren’t.
“We are not whipping,” one leadership aide tells me. “We are doing a leadership survey to see where members are.”
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ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported this morning that some 80-100 House Republicans could vote No, meaning that the proposal would need at least 70 House Dems to pass. However, Steny Hoyer said this morning he could only guarantee that 66 Dems would vote for it.
The Plum Line
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, is leaving the critical debt ceiling vote tonight to the conscience of her members according to Democrats leaving a key caucus meeting going on now.
Vice President Joe Biden is urging members to swallow a deal that many of them clearly believe is what some called a "total capitulation" to the Tea Party.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., said Pelosi is not whipping the vote. "Just the opposite," he said. "She told us to leave it to our individual consciences, but she reminded us of the consequences of a default," saying members need to consider whether they want to have their "fingerprints" on the economic consequences that could ensue should the Treasury run out of cash tomorrow.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/...
It will take Republican votes to pass President Obama's "victory." The bipartisan war on the middle class led by our President is an abomination.
Watch the votes. They will be the ones to lead a New Democratic Party one day (or another party representing workers instead of the Investor Class)
Update III:
Progressive Caucus is a NO (1+ / 0-)
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Andrea Mitchell just reported that Keith Ellison says all 74 members of the Progressive Caucus will vote no.
by Tony on Mon Aug 01, 2011 at 03:18:41 PM CDT
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