Pelosi has no plans to help President Obama with Afghanistan surge funding

It would appear there are some cracks forming in the United Democratic Party of Washington DC.  President Obama’s party support appears to be falling away about as fast as his approval rating.  Nancy Pelosi has said that it’s the President’s responsibility to make his case and sell reluctant Democrats on the need for additional funding for the troop surge in Afghanistan and that she will not help him do it.  It appears she is not willing to use what little political capital she has left to support President Obama.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air has more on Pelosi’s refusal to support President Obama:

If anyone at the White House thought that Barack Obama became the “decider” on military matters on January 20th, Nancy Pelosi just gave them a little bit of education in Democratic politics.  Obama needs Congress to appropriate funds for a 30,000-troop increase in Afghanistan, but Pelosi won’t lift a finger to help.  Instead, it will be up to Republicans to get the President his money.

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Let’s unpack that promise first.  Democrats spent 2007 and 2008 excoriating George Bush for under-resourcing the war in Afghanistan.  Barack Obama ran on the promise that he would fight more aggressively in Afghanistan.  When Obama took office, he officially adopted the COIN strategy that he had backed for two years on the campaign trail, cheered by throngs of adoring Democrats, including every one of them in Congress.

Falling poll numbers, a majority of Americans not happy with Obamacare and new polls showing that the Tea Party movement has more positive support than the Democratic party, all appear to be taking its toll and creating a divide among Democrats in Washington.