...."Basically, Obama's advisers are our advisers," said one Democratic leadership aide....

Obama's involvement with the Democratic leadership has not just been through his aides. He spoke personally with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) on Sunday morning, hammering out demands on corporate governance regulations, executive compensation caps and financial oversight that would go along with the $700 billion, according to congressional leadership aides. Pelosi's chief of staff, John Lawrence, has maintained close contact with Obama economic aides.
And Summers, who has become one of Obama's closest domestic policy advisers, is not the only Clinton administration official helping congressional Democrats. On Monday night, Democratic leaders convened a conference call that included Summers, former Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin, former Securities and Exchange commissioner Arthur Levitt, Wall Street economist Allan Sinai and California investment banker William Hambrecht, almost all of whom have ties to Obama. Roger Altman, another Obama adviser from the Clinton Treasury, is scheduled to appear at an Obama economic forum in Scranton, Pa., today....