LOL! Congress lives up to its 10% approval rating.

[OrangeEmpire]

The Beltway Crash - WSJ.com

Her highly partisan speech on the floor -- blaming "right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation" for the financial distress -- is no excuse for Republicans to vote no. But it is indicative of the way she has governed for the past two years -- like Tom DeLay without the charm. The cynics are saying Ms. Pelosi deliberately tanked the bill by giving 95 Democrats a pass, knowing failure would hurt John McCain, and given her track record we can see why people would believe it.
House Republicans share the blame, and not only because they opposed the bill by about two-to-one, 133-65. Their immediate response was to say that many of their Members turned against the bill at the last minute because Ms. Pelosi gave her nasty speech. So they are saying that Republicans chose to oppose something they think is in the national interest merely because of a partisan slight. Thank heaven these guys weren't at Valley Forge.

Thoughts?

 

[notverycrucial]

WSJ is a liberal rag.

 

[BigPapaVol]

It is a conservative editorial page in general, but did eviscerate both parties in that article.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

WSJ is a liberal rag.

You need to change your avatar to......

 

[KB5252]

I think the article has it right for the most part. Pelosi didn't want the bill to pass without the repubs signing off on it, so to speak. She announced it was a done deal then lashed out at repubs before the vote.

What the article failed to mention was that many of those democrats would have to answer to their constituents who were opposed to this bill, many of the repubs were in the same boat.

Bottom line is Pelosi never wanted the bill to go through, otherwise she would have run the show in a bipartisan manner (I find odd that she is being the exact opposite of everything she claimed she would be when given the bully pulpit).

 

[notverycrucial]

I think the article has it right for the most part. Pelosi didn't want the bill to pass without the repubs signing off on it, so to speak. She announced it was a done deal then lashed out at repubs before the vote.

What the article failed to mention was that many of those democrats would have to answer to their constituents who were opposed to this bill, many of the repubs were in the same boat.

Bottom line is Pelosi never wanted the bill to go through, otherwise she would have run the show in a bipartisan manner (I find odd that she is being the exact opposite of everything she claimed she would be when given the bully pulpit).

I've had this thought myself, but I can't believe that's really true. She looks terrible in this deal. Not as bad as House Republicans, but bad nontheless. Pelosi never would've brought it up for a vote if she didn't think it would pass. And she didn't need to run the show in a bipartisan manner at all b/c the Dems don't need the GOPers to pass it. They're the majority. They could've rammed it down House Republicans throats, but they tried to come up with a bill that was least objectionable to both sides. Obviously, this failed, but it's important to remember that the bill was signed off on by the Dem leadership, the GOP leadership, and the President. It was the GOP leadership that failed to take an accurate whip of their membership. No big deal, I guess.