True, but the margin is by only one vote in the Senate the last time I
looked. Nevertheless, neither party wants to take the rap for this.
Fortunately, enough thinking people are resisting the proposal of the
administration. Personally, I don't care what reason they use. The
plan as written was seriously flawed and the modified version is like
putting lipstick on a pig, not to cast any insults to a well known
user of lipstick.
Ed
On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Jeff Fink wrote:
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.
