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To: KonKilo who wrote (69117)	5/28/2008 11:56:23 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542243

No backbone...they deserve all the scorn they get. They have a difficult job. Pelosi doesn't have that big a majority, and it has been a tenuous one at that. Plenty of first termers are from Republican districts, or at least right of center districts. The majority in the Senate is extremely tenuous, depending on Independents and a few people like Landrieu who have iffy reelection prospects even this year, with a strong Democratic showing probable. Would it have been worthwhile to push matters so far that a fair number of Democrats would have been forced into a choice to vote either against the party or against a majority of their district? Maybe it would have been, but I'm not sure about it. Would the Democrats have been in as strong a position for the upcoming election if they had? It isn't clear to me that they would have been, even with Bush as weak as he is. But then, perhaps I just don't have enough imagination and am too sensitive to the difficult position that legislative leaders often find themselves in. It is easy to say that they have no "backbone" from a distance. That said, they are not gifted enough rhetorically. Few people are. Especially in as polarized and "passionate" a country as this one has become.