Jane Hamsher at firedoglake.com presents the full, irrefutable chronology.
Pelosi can forget about ever getting that ghavel back, and frankly she doesn’t deserve it. She is fundamentally nothing more than a party hack. But what’s so very strange is that no one in the Demoratic would-be brain trust realizes that it’s political suicide for the Democrats.
As Jon Walker writes, also at firedoglake:
“If you thought during the 2010 campaign the Republicans ads run against Democrats for “cutting Medicare” were devastating, just wait until 2014 when they run ads against Democrats for cutting Social Security.”