House votes down bailout package

[MillCreek]

This just in: the House rejected the bailout package.  Stocks down 500 points. 

[Manedwolf]

This just in: the House rejected the bailout package.  Stocks down 500 points. 

The DOW was briefly down 690...!

[buzz_knox]

Guess the House members like playing chicken. 

[Nitrogen]

This just in: the House rejected the bailout package.  Stocks down 500 points. 

My faith in government restored.  I wonder how long THIS will last?

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

This just in: the House rejected the bailout package.  Stocks down 500 points. 

My faith in government restored.  I wonder how long THIS will last?

Depends on how the markets react.  If there's a major crash, then the bill will be reintroduced and passed.  The politicos hae to be seen as "doing something" in times such as this.

[Manedwolf]

If it didn't go to the Senate, Obama didn't have a chance to vote "present".

[trapperready]

If it didn't go to the Senate, Obama didn't have a chance to vote "present".

I don't think he ever voted "present" on purpose. He just kept mumbling "president", because he likes how that sounds.

[AZRedhawk44]

If it didn't go to the Senate, Obama didn't have a chance to vote "present".

I don't think he ever voted "present" on purpose. He just kept mumbling "president", because he likes how that sounds.

Lol, good one.

My faith in our system of government stayed nominal today rather than slipping yet another point.  F the stock market, taxes aren't there to bail out bad economic times.  They're there to protect the nation from external war-like or god-like forces and for truly disastrous relief projects when food doesn't grow and the world is like the first book of the Dark Tower series.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080929/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_1483
They are holding the vote open, trying to persuade people to change their votes.

[Manedwolf]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080929/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_1483
They are holding the vote open, trying to persuade people to change their votes.

The gavel fell already. The Dems are stamping their feet?

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

More than enough members of the House had cast votes to defeat the Bush administration-pushed bill, but the vote was held open for a while, apparently as efforts were under way to persuade people to change their vote.

[yesitsloaded]

Pelosi doesn't want to see it die. More than a few democrats said no to this one.

[Manedwolf]

Pelosi doesn't want to see it die. More than a few democrats said no to this one.

Then maybe she shouldn't have had her liberals stuff a 3 page bill with another 97 pages of porkbarrel entitlements, handouts to ACORN, La Raza and the Urban League, and all sorts of other garbage.

[Harold Tuttle]

did they get the earmark ACORN funding cut out this weekend?

[Manedwolf]

did they get the earmark ACORN funding cut out this weekend?

Not last I checked. It still had the "give lots of preferential stuff to minorities" bits in it, too.

Pelosi also called for a voice vote. Coward. That got knocked down.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://saga.silenceisdefeat.org/~ds/jump.jpg
Put behind a link because of naughty language.

[AZRedhawk44]

Sweet.

Need to clean out some of the stupid rats that don't know how to invest, I like the sign.  At least it gives 'em instructions.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122270285663785991.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

A Democrat in Congress with some nads. Finally.
http://cspanjunkie.org/?p=635

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Putting a gun to the head of Americans is not the answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFByVfc8S0&feature=related

[Intune]

93 Dems voted NO and Empress Pelosi made a highly partisan speech BEFORE the vote    blaming repubs for the crisis.  Smart.  "How To Influence People & Curry Favor" must be sold out...    

Can Obama supporters stop chanting "Socialism NOW!" long enough to figure out that this bill was detrimental to the American citizen?  

93 Dems just went up in my book and a bunch of Repubs who votes YES went down.  I need to find out how my TN reps voted.  Party lines might get a bit blurred this Nov for Intune.

[Harold Tuttle]

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

93 Dems voted NO and Empress Pelosi made a highly partisan speech BEFORE the vote    blaming repubs for the crisis.  Smart.  "How To Influence People & Curry Favor" must be sold out...    

Yeah, rumor is that they had the votes to pass the bill before Pelosi botched it with her speech.  I'm glad she did it, but dayum, is she ever incompetent.

[Intune]

Made my day Harold!  So true!

[makattak]

93 Dems voted NO and Empress Pelosi made a highly partisan speech BEFORE the vote    blaming repubs for the crisis.  Smart.  "How To Influence People & Curry Favor" must be sold out...    

Yeah, rumor is that they had the votes to pass the bill before Pelosi botched it with her speech.  I'm glad she did it, but dayum, is she ever incompetent.

This is a year of surprises for me.

I had never thought I would wish Hillary had won the nomination.

Now I'm thinking something I thought I'd never say:

"Thank you, Nancy Pelosi"