Nancy Pelosi "keeping members in line"

Every now and then you see a Democrat oppose the parties spin and vote against certain legislation. Amazed as you might be, just keep in mind that the Pelosi machine tracks the pulse of every district and plays the "cat and mouse" game to retain control in the Congress. On any given issue they know well in advance on where they stand on the votes in hand. With this knowledge they then look at the statistical data on which Democrats are facing an uphill battle in their district. They, Demo machine, allow them to vote against the big spending bill so that they can represent to the folks back home that they had opposed a "big spending" issue. Contact your representative and ask them "point blank" if they have ever voted against something because they were allowed to under this scenario. Don't back off when they give you a song and dance about that is what they heard from back home. We all know that they could care less about what we say since they know in their hearts that we really don't understand what is best for us. My rep told me that she was voting based on the 10,000 responses received from her constituents but would not elaborate on how many were for or against the issue. She also failed to recognize that there were approximately 330,000 votes cast in 2008 out of approximately 600,000 adults in the district. Obviously a 10% response, or 3% of the voters and 1.6% of the total adults is enough to base her vote on. Anyways, food for thought.