So the GOP wouldn't vote for the bail-out because of HURT FEELINGS?

[FVZA_Colonel]

Some supposedly hyper-partisan speech Pelosi gave right before is what turned them off of voting for it? What a bunch of damned children!


So much for "Country First..."

[kansasblue]

1. Who said there were 'hurt feelings'? nt

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. Apparently the Repugs are now claiming some "hyper-partisan" speech by Pelosi offended them so much

that they voted against it.

[kansasblue]

7. you have a link, a name of anyone who said that?

I need to do some FOX smackdown.

[FVZA_Colonel]

8. Here's some bitching by John Boehner:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/29/news/economy/bailout/?postversion=2008092914

[MrCoffee]

9. Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla

Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., No. 3 Republican, said: "The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523/page/2/

[FVZA_Colonel]

11. If this is actually the real reason, what does it say about the GOP?

They couldn't put aside their anger for just a moment a vote for a bill they might have otherwise supported, and then started complaining?

[MrCoffee]

12. What on earth makes you think it's the real reason?

The election is 5 weeks away. That's the real reason.

[FVZA_Colonel]

16. Oh, in actuality I don't.

That they would let people think it is an amazing thing, to say the least.

[MrCoffee]

10. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523/page/2/

[FVZA_Colonel]

13. They're really going all out trying to blame Pelosi.

What a bunch of children.

[ezgoingrl]

2. Exactly

McCain should have been there making sure his party delivered no matter what since he's taken to "leading" all of the sudden.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I doubt it

I think they were just trying to pull the rug out from under the Democrats by promising to support the bill and then having their members pull away at the last minute so they could characterize an unpopular measure as a "Democratic bill". Little did they know, I suppose, that not enough Dems were on board either.

[stillcool]

14. The Democrats delivered 60%..

the Republicans were supposed to have at least 50%..they failed because 12 people had their feelings hurt..supposedly.

[rockymountaindem]

17. The key word being supposedly

IMHO they were going to vote against it the whole time and just came up with this as an excuse at the last minute to obscure their lies.

[stillcool]

19. Perhaps but they promised to deliver..

and then they couldn't. They failed.

[Kickin_Donkey]

5. Of course ...

Newt and the GOP horde shut down the government in the 1990s because Clinton wouldn't talk to him on the plane coming back from a funeral.

[avaistheone1]

6. I am glad the bill did not pass. Hurt feelings or not.

The bill do not address well enough the original criticisms of it. Instead it appeares to be more of an end run around those criticisms.

Likely the republicans were rejecting it for the wrong reasons, but it was a loser of bill anyways.

[orleans]

15. didn't barney franks say it was interesting that the number of votes

they needed to pass it was 12 which was the number of those whose feelings were hurt? he said he wanted a list of their names so he could go and talk to them and say really nice things.

what a bunch of fucking liars and crybabies!
on edit: the same pricks who used to say if people voted for a dem they were voting for another terrorist attack! and now they're voting to reflect their little "feelings?" WHAT CRAP! THESE MONSTERS HAVE NO FEELINGS!

[screembloodymurder]

18. Yes, the Democrats were supposed to vote for them.

What's the old saying about biting off your nose to spite your face?