Will money make Nancy Pelosi shut up?

Posted on | March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

I guess if you can’t win an election at the polls, you can always buy one, huh?

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money and politics:

WAS DEMOCRATIC DONORS’ LETTER TO PELOSI A RANSOM NOTE?

Prominent backers of Hillary Clinton sent a multi-million-dollar message to Capitol Hill this week: Watch out, Nancy Pelosi. In a letter to the Speaker of the House that urged her to stay out of the debate over how superdelegates should cast their votes, the 20 major Democratic donors didn’t call direct attention to the fortune they’ve given to the Democratic Party, but they did remind her of their “enthusiastic” support over the years. The Center for Responsive Politics has found that the letter-signers, along with their spouses, have contributed $23.6 million to Democrats since 1999, including $554,000 to Clinton’s campaigns and PAC — 10 times what they’ve contributed to Barack Obama. Nearly $3 million has gone to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party fundraiser for the Democratic members Pelosi leads in the House.

If you want to find out more about this veiled threat, you can read more here.

It’s interesting to watch this drama because it really is beginning to look like the pundits may be right about the Clinton camp’s determination to win at any costs and, if they can’t, to make sure nobody else can either. That’s a rather amazing level of megalomania but, I suppose, you don’t get far in politics by being studiously and sincerely humble.

It’s great political theater, of course, but I’m just wondering if Howard Dean has any hair left at this point.

[tags]politics, 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic primary[/tags]

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