Trouble with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for...

A further indication from an apparently nonpartisan source that strife between (very broadly) the mods and the lefties in the Dem House party after its expected win may have already gathered a deal of momentum.

From one of the few bits of the Congressional Quarterly site that is outside the pay wall, Jeff Stein (National Security Editor, no less) takes on the dispute over whether Harman or Hastings should get the HIC chair.

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One of the reasons, perhaps, why lefty bloggers are painted as wet behind the ears is the impression sometimes given that they expect the millennium tomorrow. Or, at the very latest, the first day of the next Congress.

Perhaps it's today's 24/7 world, perhaps it was ever thus. (Old(ish) guy talking!)

My perspective: I look for glacial progress, picking up in time to something like a snakes's slither.

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There's been fair amount of imaginative talk (as here, for instance) based on the Chuck Todd morning line on the Dem leadership-to-be.

Let's leave aside the clearly delusional notion that, under his Scenario II, a narrow Dem House win, the netroots will step forth to champion a Rahmbo bid for the Speakership. (That he put forward the notion might be thought to invalidate everything else he says. But, like I said...)

Shorn of the netroots nonsense, Todd's offering is this:

Will, say, 220 House Democrats stay united and elect Pelosi speaker, or will enough conservative House Democrats break and elect a compromise Democrat as speaker? Even the threat of Democrats peeling off and working in collaboration with the Republicans to do so might be enough to encourage a serious challenge to Pelosi inside the Democratic caucus.

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Complementing my list of Blue Dog and NDC members, I thought I'd cross-check them with the list of CBC-ers.

Those CBC-ers who are also BD-NDC are:

Sanford Bishop (GA)        BD
Artur Davis (AL)        NDC
Harold Ford (TN)        Both
Kendrick Meek (FL)        NDC
Gregory Meeks (NY)        NDC
Juanita Millender-McDonald (CA)    NDC
David Scott (GA)        Both

I can't see this cross-membership as doing much to avoid the likely struggle over leadership jobs between the CBC and the mods, though.

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I've been writing a fair amount recently about the alignment of forces in the House that look poised for conflict after the (we're supposing) Dem win next week.

The kerfuffle over the remarks of Ellen Tauscher a day or two back and other noises off suggesting that the Blue Dogs will be making their presence felt have added to the expectancy.

Today, we get the Post suggesting not only that it'll shortly be seconds out in the Hoyer/Murtha fight for Majority Whip, but that Rahmbo is supposedly contemplating trying to take down Caucus chairman Clyburn.

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