It doesn't matter what is good for the country or the belief of their constituents -- Nancy Pelosi is threatening to punish Democrats who don't vote her way on the funding bill for the Iraq War.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding the implied threat of lost committee seats over the heads of Democratic Caucus members who may vote against her $124 billion Iraq war supplemental bill.

Faced with the possibility of losing the first really big vote since taking majority control in the November elections, Pelosi is talking tough to wavering lawmakers and isolating those opposed to the bill.

Interestingly enough, it is the most liberal, anti-war Democrats she is seeking to penalize for voting their consciences. And while I consider the folks she is out to punish to be anti-American traitors, I object to the Speaker's methodology, which shows rank disrespect to the elected representatives of the people of each of their districts.

Bad precedent for a speaker who vowed not to play petty politics as usual.

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