>>>>>>>>Pelosi completely failed as a leader, however. The Dems have the numbers to have passed this without a single GOP vote.
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>>>>>>>There was a lot of pressure from Walmart Street to pass this (gas), but there's also a lot of pressure from the voters this time. Something about not being fooled again.
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>>>>>>>So all of them who face reelection...
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>>>>>>>And why am I not surprised that both presidential candidates voted yes?
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>>>>>>Did they? I can't find either of their names on either the yes or no list.
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>>>>>>http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml#Y
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>>>>>Not suprising.... they both are Senators! (grin).....
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>>>>Yeah. I didn't think they had a vote, but when I saw Dragan's note, I thought maybe I was wrong.
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>>>Don't feel too bad.... I looked all over the vote for them, too!!! It was only later that the light dawned!! (grin)..... (much later!!!)...
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>>They both did say they were in favor of the bill and will presumably vote for it when it comes to a vote in the Senate, expected later today.
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>It would be REAL interesting if it can down to their 2 votes to get it passed (along with Pelosi (sp?)) and see how they would REALLY vote then (with the populace at about 50 to 1 against the bill at all)....

I keep hearing that 50 to 1 figure but don't know where it comes from. People calling their Congresscritter maybe? I would expect complaints to outnumber "I'm with you on this, big guy" calls. That's human nature. We don't usually call someone up to say we like what they're doing.

IAC, at the risk of sounding (and being!) elitist, I'm not sure I want the rabble making the deecision. Or even having much say in it. From everything I have read the issues are so complex even people who work in the financial markets -- Wall Street, Treasury and other government departments, institutional investors -- don't completely understand them. Why should the financially inastute be listened to at all? That is not my attitude in general but it is in this case.