Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 02:15:00 PM EDT
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Tensions are high in Washington these days as campaigns gear up for the fall elections and many members face the challenge of a tough climate to run in. So you can imagine how happy members of the House were when Robert Gibbs said this on Meet the Press recently: "there is no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control" Of course many people have been talking behind closed doors about the possibility, but it didn't sit well with everyone that the spokesman for the White House was giving such a candid assessment of the road ahead. One member of the New Jersey delgeation was not pleased at all and his thoughts made it into Chris Cilizza's story in the Washington Post today:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) led a closed-door meeting of Democratic members that amounted to an extended Gibbs smackdown -- the proceedings of which inevitably were leaked to the media. In a subsequent interview, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (N.J.) nicely summed up the sentiment in the room. "What the hell do they think we've been doing the last 12 months?" he said of the White House. "We're the ones who have been taking the tough votes." Additional comments from Pascrell made it in the Hill newspaper and on Meet the Press this morning:
DCCC Chair Van Hollen tried to back things up and present a unified front, saying the Democratic Leadership had a positive meeting with the President. Van Hollen did acknowledge that there was some frustration, but it's clear that tensions are high as we head toward the general. |
| Jason Springer :: Pascrell: "What the hell do they think we've been doing" |
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