Community | September 30, 2008 | 7 comments

GOP Blames "Partisan" Pelosi Speech for Bailout Failure

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/gop-leaders-blame-innocuo_n_130310.html

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At a press conference held mere moments after Monday's defeat of the $250 billion bailout proposal, several top Republicans nominated a scapegoat for the bill's failure: Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Even as Chris Matthews was at pains to note on MSNBC the fact that, while the Democrats had delivered more than half of their caucus in favor of the bailout plan and Republicans could not, several top GOP figures (who fractured over the actual vote) went full-tilt in blaming Pelosi personally.

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7 comments // GOP Blames "Partisan" Pelosi Speech for Bailout Failure

  • extremepain
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      extremepain  

    • Barney Frank responded to this better than I ever could.

      You can look back at the Reagan years as the time the bipartisan waters got poisoned. Prior to that we had a such thing as moderate republicans, the good kind.

      I fear as long as the ideologies are so far divided, there will never be a real spirit of bipartisanship.

    • 3 years ago
  • wanamoka
  • allIknowis
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      allIknowis  

    • I've read that they were to dole out the money &250B at a time. Yet another reason it failed to rally the country behind it, too many sketchy details, poor P R job explaining the bill.
      All the talking heads I saw on cable news were railing on the Republicans or on poor leadership in both parties. I see it as elected representatives listening to their people back home.
      The people i talk to believe we need something like this, but with oversight by non-government people kind of a blue ribbon panel, and we need to know what they are voting on, what's in the bill.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • RyanLYoungblood
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      RyanLYoungblood  

    • This story is ridiculous. They are trying to frame this as a partisan issue. It's not about partisanship, its about those politicians who are with the elite versus those politicians who still support the Republic.

    • 3 years ago
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