House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, is leaving the critical debt ceiling vote tonight to the conscience of her members according to Democrats leaving a key caucus meeting going on now.



Vice President Joe Biden is urging members to swallow a deal that many of them clearly believe is what some called a "total capitulation" to the Tea Party. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., said Pelosi is not whipping the vote. "Just the opposite," he said. "She told us to leave it to our individual consciences, but she reminded us of the consequences of a default," saying members need to consider whether they want to have their "fingerprints" on the economic consequences that could ensue should the Treasury run out of cash tomorrow.

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It will take Republican votes to pass President Obama's "victory." The bipartisan war on the middle class led by our President is an abomination.

Watch the votes. They will be the ones to lead a New Democratic Party one day (or another party representing workers instead of the Investor Class)

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