Posted on 09/30/2008 5:42:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Let's award a point of light to Matt Lauer. On this morning's Today, he called out Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) for calling for an end to the blame game . . . right after the congressman blamed John McCain for failing to rally his Arizona troops to vote for the bailout. But that didn't stop Clyburn from continuing to try to pin the tail on the elephant.
JAMES CLYBURN: We promised 50% of our caucus; they promised 50% of their caucus, or their conference. We produced 60%, and they produced 33%.
MATT LAUER: Yeah, but in fairness, Congressman Clyburn, the Speaker of the House couldn't even deliver half of her own Democratic delegation from her own state.
CLYBURN: Well, that may be true. But zero from Arizona voted for this, and presidential candidate McCain came in, and he said he brought everybody to the table. But if you check, Matt, you will see that not a single person from Arizona voted for this legislation. So here is what we have to do, going forward. I think it's time for us to set aside blaming, set aside all of this extraneous stuff, like a speech that may have been delivered on the floor of the House [alluding to Pelosi's partisan spiel]. It's amazing to me that we can be so sophomoric to believe that a politician would not give a political speech.
That prompted Lauer's pointed response.
View video here.
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Matt Lauer point-of-light ping to Today show list. Note: it was actually a double-header for Lauer. He also zinged Pelosi for her partisan speech.
They can’t put lipstick on this pig..................
I read that NONE of the BLACK CAUCUS VOTED FOR THIS BILL!! Could that be correct?? If spo, why didn’t Matt Lauer ask him about that??
McCain’s fault!
What a sick Joke!
They do a 50-50 deal to protect their ass. Glad some congressmen had guts and took Nancy on.
McCain and the GOP need to step up and expose the Rats.
Nancy’s message ‘’ only vote NO if your exposed in your re-election’’
That’s what I heard.No walking around money was in the Bill!
Oh yeah and now our fearless/clueless leader (W) is on the TV stumbling through more of the same, interspersing copious ‘Protect the American People’ bromides throughout his bumbling. Does anyone really want all of these opportunistic boobs responsible for their physical or financial ‘safety’?
I think there were only 19 members of the CBC who voted against it. I looked into this yesterday matching the NO Vote names to members of the Black caucus. I may be off one or two.
THey all wanted the bill to fail so they could continue blaming the republicans for the crisis.
The black caucus was promised that the bill would be amended in the next round and Acorn money would be restored.
Any one hear Mike Lupica (apparently he’s covering politics now) say that ultimately this election is going to be decided on race. The question on election day will be: “Is American ready to elect a black president.”
bttt
Second week in a row Matt has nailed a ‘rat.
See post 10
They were looking for their ACORN goody bag before they would agree to vote for it ...no doubt! After all Halloween is just around the corner....trick or treat!
LOL... that foldin' money!
It would have been great if Lauer had asked him why not a single member of the black caucus voted for the bill...and then after he stammered and hemmed and hawed and said he couldn't possibly know why somebody else voted the way they did Matt should ahve asked him why HE didn't vote for the bailout!
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BFD. that was pathetic. If Lauer REALLY wanted to make a point he would’ve jumped on the fact that the speaker’s speech on the floor was a COMPLETE blame game and THAT’S why people were up in arms.
He wants the libtards to be the only one’s to blame anyone.
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