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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South Carolina PingWhoa, I broke my link.
I hate you for that.
That’s what I told my husband, that the Dems didn’t want it and so tried to make it look like they did something, then let it fail and blame the R’s. I said Pelosi’s speech was calculated to be the last straw. My husband said Pelosi is not that smart. She may not be but put a few of those conniving heads together and I have no doubt they could come up with a plan like that. Also to make the house go first and give the senate another day or 2 to gauge public reaction before they vote. They think we are all so dumb we can’t figure they are up to something. They are ALWAYS up to something! lol
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