Sep

29

2008

Pelosi loses yet another battle – one she should have won

by Skip

The $700 Billion bill has failed.  Bickering and partisanship.

Throw in bad math too – being a numbers kind of guy, it certainly seems that this person…

Speaker Pelosi

…just can’t count straight.  From The Campaign Spot (emphasis and reformatting mine):

Pelosi’s Excuses Are Garbage

Pelosi, moments ago: "The Democrats more than lived up to their side of the bargain."

Horsepuckey. Pelosi has 235 members. She needed 218. She could spare 17 members and still pass the bill. The GOP spotted her 65 members, for a bill that made most Republicans’ skin crawl in both broad outline and in terms of detail. That meant Pelosi could afford to lose 82 Democrats.

She lost 95.

[snip]

Think about it – the majority party is insisting that the minority party is responsible for the bill not passing with a majority. Do you see the incongruency there? Why is anyone taking that argument seriously?

Pelosi once again is proving that she is not Speaker material.  I am a very partisan Republican, but on how many times has she lost WITH DEMS HAVING A MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE?  She did not need a single Republican to pass this vote IF she had been able to properly manage her own Party. 

She did not.  She did not.  She cannot.

I’m guessing that there will be a new Speaker for the next term….especially if the Dems lose seats because of this snafu.

I’m ok with that!  Hmmm, or should we be doing an Operation Chaos to keep the Dems bollixed up?

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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  • Pete

    Doug, what the MSM is not reporting is that the GOP called the Democrats bluff. Pelosi was betting on at least 90 something republicans to vote yes which would of have given cover to Hodes, Shea Porter, the so called blue dogs and Democrats facing tough re-election battles. Its pretty amazing that 40% of the Democrats voted no, which is a great humiliation and defeat for Pelosi.

  • wolfwalker

    What makes you think Pelosi wanted this bill to pass?
    Now she can have somebody introduce the porked-up version that was talked about last week, and pass it on a party line vote. Wall Street gets its emergency bailout, the Vermin Party gets its socialist programs, and the Republicans get nothing but the blame.

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