The dems control the house and senate. They don't need a single republican vote to get anything they want! If the bill went down in flames it is because some of their own people thought it stank. The only reason they want republican votes is so they can pass some of the blame when it doesn't work.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout News stories I'm seeing make it sound like it was the conservative Republicans who nuked the deal. With Barney Frank as lead representative on the bill, in the end it was apparently, in some sense, a Democratic initiative(?) or at any rate it was certainly bi-partisan.
