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Posted at 2:29pm on Dec. 12, 2007 Sweet Jeebus, is there nobody in the Democratic Party who understands national party unity?

They really *didn't* win in 2006, did they? It's much more accurate to say that *we* lost.

By Moe Lane

Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't just cave: she caved stupidly. Just because the rest of her Party leadership can't see beyond their own bailiwick doesn't mean that she has to, too.

Pelosi backs down in spending battle
By Alexander Bolton | Posted: 12/12/07 11:50 AM [ET]
December 12, 2007

In the face of stiff opposition from powerful fellow Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has abandoned a proposal she supported less than 24 hours ago to eliminate lawmakers’ earmarks from the omnibus spending package.

Pelosi told the Democratic chairmen of the House Appropriations subcommittees, the so-called appropriations cardinals, that earmarks would stay in the omnibus and that Democratic leaders would accede to cut spending to levels demanded by President Bush in order to save 11 spending bills from a veto, said sources familiar with a meeting that took place in Pelosi’s office early Wednesday morning.

The House Democrats’ tentative plan is to finalize the package for passage in the next day or so, said sources.

Read on.

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