GOP Lawmakers Who Voted Against the Financial Crisis Bailout Because of Pelosi? Sounds Like a Myth
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Looking for cracks in the sidewalk
It's an instinct for politicians to look for "cracks in the sidewalk," during elections. The Repubs are desperate for a "wedge issue." I think trying to blame Pelosi was one of those blind attempts to look for some daylight they could jump thru. If the attack on Pelosi was successful, it would of been blown up further, and used to lead an attack on the Democratic ticket. Their hopes? To even the score. The truth? Obama is bulletproof when it comes to the economy. With foreign policy taking a backseat for at least another 2 weeks, the rock McCain has to crawl from under just keeps getting bigger. The week before the election, I doubt McCain can rally up more than 5 points, if at all, before Obama is swept in on an electoral wave. I think there is no hope that McCain can win the last debate, after suspending his 1st one, but he still has enough skill he could surprise. I predict Obama gets at least 270 votes BEFORE California and/or Hawaii are counted. It could be a short night.
the bail out and the blame game
For God's sake people don't you remember what has happened in the last several years? It started way back with the drive to get more people into their own homes. The government encouraged the relaxing of regulations guarding against making loans that were chancey. When I bought my home I was required to submit PROOF of my income and I was required to put down 25% of the total cost of the property. It's not just the present administration but many more before it. It's also not the entire fault of the government - how many of you have multiple credit cards and have maxed them out? How many of you have bought lots of toys - moble homes, boats, extra vacation homes, houses that were way larger than you really needed, went on vacations that were a "little bit expensive"? You will now have to back off a bit. As for the present econonmic situation, the whole of the congress and the Senate should be replaced. The political atmosphere has become so caustic and poisoness that all of them need to be replaced - even that one that you voted for and will vote for again - he/she is part of the problem.
Nancy Pelosi
Isn't there some kind of law against that much stupid? As a Californian I am ashamed of the amazingly ill-timed partisan speech Pelosi made right before the vote. I, along with many other Californians, spend the rest of the day shaking my head in disbelief. Our plea to the rest of the nation: please don't let what Pelosi did serve as a reflection on the rest of our great state. Believe it or not, most Californians are pretty smart.
List of votes
I have yet to find a list of who voted against. I need the list so I know who to vote against come November.
No one can blame Pelosi for telling the truth. We, as Americans, should not have to bailout other "BIG CEOs" for their mistakes. They already get enough money out of us from gas, food, taxes, and etc. etc!!! So you can sit up and try to blame Pelosi all day for her remarks but she IS NOT THE ONE who got us in this mess in the first place. That is who you need to blame!!
Pelosi??
Total leadership failure by the leader of the government.....Bush (Pelosi is not president dumb asses).
Polosi's comments showed a total lack of leadership. A leader demonstrates her/his ability to unite not divide. Her speech was self serving in the face of a financial crisis that will affect every American's 401-K plan, ability to obtain credit to buy a car or house, and companies ability to borrower money to pay thier employees etc. More people will lose thier homes when companies lay them off becuase Nancy Pelosi would rather play politics than actually solve the financial problem we are facing.
Why did she let this bill come to the floor of the House of Representitves? a leader would have stop an inferior bill from making it to a vote. She wanted the opportunity to blow the legishlation up, and further deepen the crisis at the expense of each and every American.
Her self-serving objective is to be the Queen of Washington on the backs of the American people.
With leadership like this, who needs enemies
Pelosie
Yeah right, like somebody is going to come out and say, yes I voted against the bailout because of Pelosi. That's not the way out government works. It would mean that they are incapable and incomptent and can't see beyond their own noses, and who wants America to see that. Yeah they are probably hanging out in the cloak room, with other eugenic minded folks such as your self, pumping themselves up with alcohol.
Intergirty
The job of a rep is to do what is best for the country not what the mob emotionally dictates. The house is burning and they are sitting back playing the fiddle
Congress needs to act
they have the money already...
On 9/10/2001 Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon "misplaced" $2.3 trillion dollars. Now why don't they try really hard and find that money and apply it to this bailout?
The members who voted for this bailout should be brought up on charges of treason.
