How Pelosi broke with Obama

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/how-pelosi-broke-with-obama-118961.html?hp=t1_r

How Pelosi broke with Obama

Her final-hour move against the president’s trade agenda marks a low point in a relationship that produced his biggest achievements.

By Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan and Lauren French

6/12/15 9:33 PM EDT

It had come to this: Nancy Pelosi needed John Boehner to help save her party and her president from an ugly public meltdown.

By Friday morning, it was clear that a crucial piece of Barack Obama’s trade initiative was barreling toward defeat. Democrats were disjointed, dispirited, even angry in some cases. At the same time, they knew that they – not Republicans – would shoulder much of the blame for killing the president’s top legislative priority and for the ensuing spectacle of a party at war.

So just before noon, with debate already underway on the House floor, Pelosi picked up the phone and called Boehner to inform him that a must-pass component of the White House trade package was going to fail. It was the second such warning from Pelosi to Boehner in two days.

“Are you still going ahead?” Pelosi asked him, according to sources familiar with the call. “Are you going to pull the bill?”

No, he wasn’t, Boehner replied. This was his best chance to push fast-track trade authority across his unpredictable House floor, he told Pelosi.

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[Lando Lincoln]

“We’re not the other party, we’re not the tea party,” Obama said, according to sources in the room. He took no questions, Pelosi said nothing and the pair left the room together.

Once Obama left, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told fellow Democrats that he “was offended by what the president said” in suggesting TAA opponents weren’t playing it straight. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and others echoed Ellison.

Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), a top trade supporter, said his sister and other relatives were union members, yet he would still support the package.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) broke into tears. She told Democrats how close she was to Obama.

Then she went to the House floor and voted “no.”
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Sounds like Obama put his petulant child on full display while making demands without taking questions.  Other than ignorant, partisan and blind loyalty by his legislative general and the minions, he has built no relationships.  At least here, even they are fractured.  Meanwhile, he has nothing but disdain and animosity for and from the opposition party.

What a "leader".