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(The Hill) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other House Democratic leaders on Tuesday denied that they share any blame for the stalemate over extending a payroll-tax cut and jobless benefits that has ensued in Congress.
Pelosi said Democrats will not appoint any conferees to a House-Senate conference on a yearlong payroll-tax-cut extension because the GOP effort to convene such a conference is just a trick.
“We are not falling for that stunt again,” she said.
Thirty-nine Senate Republicans voted for the bill, many won over by a provision forcing the administration to decide on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline within 60 days — a move that would put President Obama in a tough political position.
Pelosi evoked the “Peanuts” cartoon series, saying she would not play Charlie Brown to Boehner’s Lucy. In that cartoon, Lucy fools Charlie Brown into attempting to kick a football, only to pull it away at the last minute, causing Charlie Brown to be humiliated.
“He is not Lucy and we are not Charlie Brown,” she said.
