San Fran Nan is Through Doing the Hard Stuff

Nancy Pelosi has finally figured out that Obama's lefty agenda could potentially wreak havoc with her majority in 2010. While she probably doesn't care if a bunch of Blue Dogs get knocked out, she's beginning to fear for the Speaker's chair. Consequently, in 2010 she's going to make the Senate do the hard stuff first:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has privately told her politically vulnerable Democratic members that they will not vote on controversial bills in 2010 unless the Senate acts first.

After a year of bruising legislative victories that some political analysts believe have done more to jeopardize her majority than to entrench it, Pelosi is shifting gears for the 2010 election.

The Speaker recently assured her freshman lawmakers and other vulnerable members of her caucus that a vote on immigration reform is not looming despite a renewed push from the White House and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The House will not move on the issue until the upper chamber passes a bill, Pelosi told the members.

But according to Democrats who have spoken to Pelosi, the Speaker has expanded that promise beyond immigration, informing Democratic lawmakers that the Senate will have to move first on a host of controversial issues before she brings them to the House floor.

“The Speaker has told members in meetings that we’ve done our jobs,” a Democratic leadership aide said. “And that next year the Senate’s going to have to prove what it can accomplish before we go sticking our necks out any further.”

It's too late, Nancy. You've already done permanent damage to your majority. The voters can't wait to throw a bunch of your people out.