there's a joint caucus and whip organization meeting every Thursday morning at 9:00 in HC-5, and a hot breakfast is always served. There may be ultimately be strife in the caucus about the trade deal, but that's kinda thin evidence of intra-caucus warfare.

When Max Baucus signed on I knew it sucked, every economic policy that Bush has enacted wouldn't have happened without Max Baucus screwing the people.

to a Representatives heart is scrambled eggs and ham?

Jokes aside, I think that it's going to be many of the same people who peppered Robert Rubin with questions on trade during his meeting with the House Caucus last December.

One of my favorite qoutes from that meeting:

Indiana freshman Rep. Joe Donnelly (D) told Rubin he has former Delphi employees in his district who feel that our government sold them out to foreign governments, that they were making $21/hour and are now making $9/hour, meanwhile they're outsourcing, dumped their pension obligations on the government. He demanded of Rubin: "What do you say to that?"

Maybe if the House leadership can't understand that 2006 was about economic insecurity, the labor  Dems need to go on strike and deny the speaker a quorum.

I think all differences can probably be reconciled over a warm bacon sandwich.  MMMM.