THEY ARE FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES – DON'T GET IN THE WAY – AT 7:42 P.M. ET:  It appears that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in bit of friction with President Obama.  From The Politico:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.

For months, the California lawmaker has been pushing Obama hard in private while praising him in public. But now she’s being more open in her criticism, in part because she feels the White House was wrong — in the wake of the Democrats’ loss in Massachusetts — to push the Senate health care bill on the House when she knew there was no way it would pass.

Earlier this month, Pelosi criticized the president’s State of the Union call to exempt defense spending from a budget freeze. And in a White House meeting with leaders of both parties this week, she questioned the effectiveness of his plan to give small businesses tax breaks to hire workers.

“What you’re seeing now in public has been building in private,” said a top House Democratic official. “House members did their work — they did everything the president asked of them. And it gets stuck in the Senate. Or the Senate screws it up.”

COMMENT:  When you elect an amateur as president, this is what happens.  The same thing happened with Carter, who treated Congress in a cavalier, I-am-better-than-you manner. 

We've asked before whether Obama will turn out to be a Kennedy or a Carter.  Kennedy tried to learn from his mistakes, and his second year in office was far more successful than his first.  Carter never believed he made any mistakes.

I'm afraid Carter is getting the nod.  There don't seem to be any substantive changes in the way this White House does business.

February 12, 2010