Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP - Yahoo! News

Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP - Yahoo! News: "Pelosi will lead Democrats 'in pulling on the president's shirttails to make sure that he doesn't move from center-right to far-right,' said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., a co-chair of the liberal Progressive Caucus in the House. 'We think if he'd done less compromising in the last two years, there's a good chance we'd have had a jobs bill that would have created real jobs, and then we wouldn't even be worrying about having lost elections.'

Behind Democrats' decision to keep Pelosi as their leader after historic losses lies intense concern among liberals who dominate the party's ranks on Capitol Hill: They fear Obama will go too far in accommodating the GOP in the new era of divided government, and they see Pelosi as a counterweight.

She's played that role before. When Democrats panicked after losing their Senate supermajority last winter, Pelosi rebuffed feelers by then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and others to settle for a smaller health care bill. She derided the approach as 'kiddie care' and pushed forward with the sweeping overhaul she painstakingly steered through the House by a razor-thin margin.

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