I was just rereading your post that I made my first comment in response to, and think that post strongly implies that NO pork (or at least not THIS pork) was passed by the Senate before the bailout came along. That is, the pork measures were NOT available to the House to pass any time it wanted to.
-- 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 --
-- 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 --
I don't think a reader would be apt to conclude, from those assertions, that the House already had the Senate-passed pork.
Another point necessary for attaching responsibility for the pork strongly (or solely) to the Democrats is the margin and holdouts for Senate passage of the pork bill, HR 6049. What cleaner measure of "who's for the pork and who's against the pork" than a vote on the pork bill standing alone? HR 6049 cleared the Senate on a 93-2 vote, with zero Republican objectors. Both NAY votes came from Democrats.
I didn't and don't mean to get your goat, and in that spirit, I'll stifle any urge I may get to comment in regard to your posts.
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