The clip below from AP on the Yahoo site, shows Nancy Pelosi stealing
Cindy Sheehan's remarks, damn near exactly. I predict Pelosi has
struck deals with her Republican "opponents" and the measure will pass
on a second vote, while she reaps the benefit of having looked like
she fought it. The tip-off is that she herself inserted the golden
parachutes into the bill.
Dan
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Putnam said lawmakers were working "to garner the necessary votes to
avoid a financial collapse."
But the defeat was already causing a brutal round of finger-pointing.
"We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan
speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House," House
Minority Leader John Boehner said. Pelosi's words, the Ohio Republican
said, "poisoned our conference, caused a number of members that we
thought we could get, to go south."
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the whip, estimated that Pelosi's speech
changed the minds of a dozen Republicans who might otherwise have
supported the plan.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., scoffed at the explanation.
"Well if that stopped people from voting, then shame on them," he
said. "If people's feelings were hurt because of a speech and that led
them to vote differently than what they thought the national interest
(requires), then they really don't belong here. They're not tough
enough."
More than a repudiation of Democrats, Frank said, Republicans' refusal
to vote for the bailout was a rejection of their own president.
"The Republicans don't trust the administration," he said. "It's a
Republican revolt against George Bushand John McCain."
In her speech, Pelosi had assailed Bush and his administration for
reckless economic policies.
"They claim to be free market advocates when it's really an anything-
goes mentality: No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if
you fail, you will have a golden parachute and the taxpayer will bail
you out. Those days are over. The party is over," Pelosi said.
"Democrats believe in a free market," she said. "But in this case, in
its unbridled form, as encouraged, supported, by the Republicans —
some in the Republican Party, not all — it has created not jobs, not
capital. It has created chaos."
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