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.
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!
Saw it earlier and had to rub my eyes to be sure I was watching NBC. It was a sight to behold.
The need for the nonsense of a bill in the first place SHOWS THE STUNNING FAILURE OF SOCIALISM.
Frederic Bastiat talked about it here...(bold mine)
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism?
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
Many 'rat socialist/collectivists voted no for the wrong reasons as noted on this thread. Bastiat talked about them in the 1st quote above.