Or I read your post wrong.
Pelosi has one reason to fight these compromise measures in regards to tax cuts: if they work the way the GOP says they will, then everything Pelosi has worked towards since 2006 will be undermined to a point of no return.
Obama has just about admitted this by his participation in the tax cut compromise... but should the evidence swing overwhelmingly towards the conservative position (as I think it would), Pelosi's hard-line position makes her the obvious "road block" on the road to recovery.
On the other hand, Obama looks like a man willing to work across aisles to get things back on track. He need not admit to every single aspect of the benefits stemming from GOP tax positions... he can play the age old game of "it only took time for MY efforts to prove their worth" or something to that effect. Pelosi can't do that. She's taken the position that all that is wrong is BECAUSE of the Bush tax cuts... Obama has avoided that particular punch.
The danger here is that somehow, through some devilish twist of dark fate... Pelosi might be seen as "right" in all this, and nothing could hurt the conservative cause more than that. In that event, Obama, Pelosi, Reid... all the most liberal Dems can say "We're right!" but everyone from Hannity to Bush Sr. look like utter fools.
However... the chances of THAT sort of disaster can't be any more likely than a solid gold meteor hitting the surface of the earth and wiping out all life as we know it... twice in one week.
Still, its nice to see the Dems back to their rather traditional in-fighting... its like Tip O'Neill were back in the Speaker's chair, isn't it?
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