The Harry Reid Seante was sitting on a pork list they wanted to pass but had no other bill to which they could hang the strips of rotting bacon, so Harry and Nancy had a great adventure. In the process they felt they could lay a trap for John McCain. You see the Pelosi House never intended to pass the first draft because the Democrat criminal enterprise intended to add the pork cooking in the Harry Reid Senate. Had the House passed the MOnday bill, the Senate could have added layers of pork, but then the redesigned bill would have been sent to the House for conferencing and the process would have taken perhaps weeks. So once again the Democrap Congress raped the American taxpayer using a crisis to do it in order to give their criminal asses cover for the thievery. But the media will not explain this to the American voter because We The People might just string a few of the freaks up to light poles and burned the capital down! Those who lost the base of their 401Ks on Tuesday were ignored as the Democrats worked their criminal magic to get their pork through.
Ummm, no. It worked different from that. The pork passed the Senate TWICE. It passed the Senate on September 23, 2008 by a 93-2 margin. The two NAY votes were Democrats, but still, that's overwhelming support for the pork. See H.R.6049.
That very same pork was passed by the Senate a second time, in October, in combination with the House-rejected bailout. Both the bailout and the pork underwent relatively minor amendment during the combination process, all of which "minor amendment" was conducted in the smokey backrooms. Still, the differences can be ferreted out by comparing the various bills as passed by the two chambers of Congress. Pretty much what passed was HR 6049 as passed by the Senate, and bailout as rejected by the House.
Your ultimate conclusion doesn't hold up given that the pork was passed with zero objection from Republicans, on September 23rd.