Frau Bluker...
She gave them a pass, required the participation of Republicans as part of her CYA action so that they would take the hit for the 2-1 negative opinion in the districts, then INSULTED the Bush administration. Not necessary. Uppity witch was a dumb-dumb and should have known better. If the bailout was so darn important, she could have passed it on her own last week with her own people and gotten the buck to ACORN.
Pelosi is dumber than a box of rocks. She should have counted her votes before she started letting her ‘RAT comrades off the hook.
They’ll vote for it next time around when their special interests are given their gimmes.
The Democrats will rewrite the bill, putting in everything they want, and it will pass without Republicans voting for it. Bush will sign it with a smile. Pelosi will say that she tried to be bipartisan, but unpatriotic Republicans acted in their own self interest. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Pelosi made her speech to drive Republicans back out of the deal. Democrats will get the credit for saving the day, and Republicans will go down in flames. ...I’m just trying to prepare you for the possibility of disaster. It’s time to join forces, putting our differences behind us, and beat this leftist slime any way we can.
thanks.
that is ... weird.
and, at the end, rove tells how of the 26 congress people leaving office, 23 voted for it!
the 3 who voted against, were democrats udall and udall who are running for u.s. senate seats in co and nm.
unbelievable.
SETUP. She either didn’t try to get her own party behind the deal, or knew that they would not approve the bailout and wanted to blame it all on the Republicans.
thanks for posting this...
so here is my little summary:
Rove discussed the particulars of the vote. Who said yes, who said no....and some startling revelations. For example, the Barny Frank’s second in command of the House Banking Committee voted no. 5 committe chairmen who owe their positions to Pelosi voted no. Two of Obama’s fellow Chicago politicans....voted no... All of the freshman Democrats from difficult former Republican districts voted no....
Why?
The leaders of the house Republicans did not count their votes correctly. So Pelosi thought she could let some of her friends and freshman representatives vote no. Then, the combination of her inflammatory speech before the vote, and Republicans watching as she moved among the Democrats and they could see she was not demanding their votes lead some Republicans who were reluctant to vote YES to change their minds (for self-preservation...to separate themselves from the Bush administration and follow the will of their voters) and they cast NO votes. there was a 23 vote margin...so 12 votes moving from YES to NO killed the bill.
In the final analysis, we got lucky. The leadership of both parties counted the votes wrong. they thought they had it locked up. Pelosi was so sure that she gave her Buck Fush speech. But it was her giving a pass to her friends and terrified freshmen that really made some Republicans buck the Party and vote the will of their constituents.
My own congressman, Gallegly (CA24) had given a statement to the local newspaper the previous day indicating that he was going to vote YES even though it was a very difficult vote for him....and he somehow changed his vote to NO.
What a day.
She may be crazy like a fox. Economy going down can translate to Obama’s numbers going up. Would she wreck the country to get a DemocRat elected President? Oh hell yes she would.