Originally posted by jerZ07002
which goes to show how petty, and unfit congressional members are to be running a country. personal squabbles over the health of a nation. makes sense to me. :rolleyes:
Pretty much.
josh4
Give me a ing break!
The Republicans fail to do their part and its the liberal Speaker from San Francisco's fault? Bull. the republicans. I saw nothing wrong with Pelsoi's speech. She was right! These morons bankrupted the economy. Only a few weeks ago their leaders were staring us in the eyes saying the economy is fine.
The Republicans have been playing politics with this from the start. What the are they doing? If the country goes under its their fault and no one elses. Them and their small town values idiot they put in office.
Capitalizt
You can blame the republicans for creating the mess if you wish, but it is certainly Pelosi who is responsible for the bill failing today. There was widespread support for the bill on the house floor. The republicans claimed they had 75-85 votes for the bill..then the FINAL speaker goes to the podium..Nancy Pelosi, and she makes that ridiculous speach blaming bush and republican economics for the mess. Regardless of whether or not that's true, she should not have said it just before the vote. She turned a nonpartisan atmosphere into a very partisan atmosphere for no good reason...and likely made several people change their mind at the last minute.
If she had kept her mouth shut and just said "Lets do what's right for America", she would easily have gotten the extra 6 votes for the bill to pass.
josh4
You can't measure that, it is ridiculous and stupid. "There was support"
There were people who SAID they were supporting it. You have no factual basis to accurately measure that a ing speech caused the vote to fail.
Its like Frank said, in such a grave situation what idiot would put their hurt feelings ahead of the country?
I could just as well say the Republicans ed up, they are surprised they ed up, recognize they ed up and are trying to blame it on the Democrats.
Capitalizt
The ruling party rarely brings a bill like this to the floor unless they are sure they have the votes. The republican caucus assured her that they had at least 75 rock solid votes for the bill..possibly 85, yet they ended up with only 60. Her petty comments just before the vote definitely swung some republicans against her. It was a stupid move on her part. Stop defending it.
Nostalgic
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Originally posted by josh4
You can't measure that, it is ridiculous and stupid. "There was support"
There were people who SAID they were supporting it. You have no factual basis to accurately measure that a ing speech caused the vote to fail.
Its like Frank said, in such a grave situation what idiot would put their hurt feelings ahead of the country?
I could just as well say the Republicans ed up, they are surprised they ed up, recognize they ed up and are trying to blame it on the Democrats.
She still should not have bashed the Republican party when a time of Bi-Partisanship is needed to pass this bill. Whether you agree that the Republican party should have caught feelings or not regarding her comments, she still ed up by being a loud-mouth San Francisco Liberal.
Q5echo
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Originally posted by josh4
Give me a ing break!
The Republicans fail to do their part and its the liberal Speaker from San Francisco's fault? Bull. the republicans. I saw nothing wrong with Pelsoi's speech. She was right!
f**k you she was right. 40% of her own caucus couldn't get behind her on this. how can she not, as leader, get 40% or her own caucus to vote yes? technically she didn't need a single Republican to pass this.
three days it took to negotiate all the other crap she christmas treed this bill with out of it and now we're back to square on. worst Congress ever
josh4
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Originally posted by Capitalizt
The ruling party rarely brings a bill like this to the floor unless they are sure they have the votes. The republican caucus assured her that they had at least 75 rock solid votes for the bill..possibly 85, yet they ended up with only 60. Her petty comments just before the vote definitely swung some republicans against her. It was a stupid move on her part. Stop defending it.
I'm not defending it, she could have used more tact and said her piece after the vote. However, you can't but the blame on Pelsoi for making a partisan speech.
What's worse the fact Pelsoi made a tactical error in political judgment or that there were actually people in the House willing to change their votes out of spite? This whole ing thing is ed. Only 60% of Democrats voted for it anyway.
The economy is not doomed because Pelosi made a speech. that. The economy is doomed because of the morons in office these past 8 years.
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Originally posted by Q5echo
f**k you she was right. 40% of her own caucus couldn't get behind her on this. how can she not, as leader, get 40% or her own caucus to vote yes? technically she didn't need a single Republican to pass this.
three days it took to negotiate all the other crap she christmas treed this bill with out of it and now we're back to square on. worst Congress ever
So the republican leadership isn't to blame for so few of them backing it? There were even less republicans willing to vote on the bill speech or not. And its your boy McCain that came sailing in to save the day only to derail what progress had been made at the time and not contribute anything.
The17sss
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Originally posted by jerZ07002
which goes to show how petty, and unfit congressional members are to be running a country. personal squabbles over the health of a nation. makes sense to me. :rolleyes:
exactly. Pelosi gets up there making partisan remarks then wants a bi-partisan consensus... she is ing awful as speaker. The bill easily could have passed if the majority of her own party would have voted, but it's the GOP's fault? lol.
The people voting against it were doing so because the calls were coming in at anywhere from a 10-1 to a 20-1 ratio of constituents being against it. The American people have spoken, and all those Dems that voted against it did so because they know damn well if they voted for it, they'd be out of a job in the next election cycle.
Edit: and what's the hurry? Why are they trying to ram it through so fast? I'm not saying now's the time to dilly dally, but according to them it "HAD" to be passed last week. Then it "HAD" to be passed over the weekend. Then it "HAD" to pass today. I hate when they try to do that in stealth before the public really becomes educated on all the details. So what if the Dow is down 777 points... biggest point drop ever, yeah yeah...We're all still alive. But it's still only about 4% of shares, compared to 1987 when 25% of shares were lost, and the real crash in 1929 was about 50% of shares.
St_Andrew
Stupid or not of Pelosi, it's ed up to gamble with your country's economic future just because of a "bad tone" in her speech. They really should be more grown up than that.
The17sss
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Originally posted by josh4
The economy is not doomed because Pelosi made a speech. that. The economy is doomed because of the morons in office these past 8 years.
the economy is not doomed. every time there's been a serious problem in the market, and the panic pushers scare the ever-loving out of people, it ALWAYS bounces back faster and stronger than they anticipate. Remember after 9/11? Our economy was supposedly going to be in ruins. We need to get the ing s OUT that have been the architects of this mess from the beginning... THAT is change we need.
If you're having surgery on your spleen, and your doctor botches the surgery, do you go back to him and ask him to fix it? Or do you find another doctor to do a better job?
