>>Nancy Pelosi says the Rs failed, but, as Sheppard Smith pointed out, the Ds have the votes to pass this thing, without the Rs. Then she wants to rail against the Rs for this mess, when the whole housing thing was brought about by the Ds forcing lending agencies to loan money to people who could not pay.....
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>I do give Nancy Pelosi part of the blame for her partisan speech. This was no time for partisanship. But there was plenty of blame to go around. More Democrats voted for it than Republicans. It wouldn't have taken many switched votes on either side for it to pass.
I take a back seat to no one in regarding Nancy Pelosi as an idiot, but I don't buy that 12 GOP congresspeople (the number that would have swung it) changed their vote to a negative because Nancy hurt their feelings. They have to be responsible for their own idiocy (notice that the GOP conservatives not planning to run for reelection voted for it.)
Pelosi completely failed as a leader, however. The Dems have the numbers to have passed this without a single GOP vote.
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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