The Republicans were never going to vote for the bill. They had cut and delivered ads opposing the bailout (the one they were promising everyone else they would vote for) before the vote ever occured.
The House conservatives who sank the bailout didn’t do so because they were listening to loud and angry voices. They sank the plan by accident. They were trying to double-cross the Democrats. First, they wrung lots of concessions out of Democrats at the negotiating table as the price for delivering 80 votes. Then, by not delivering 80 votes and forcing Pelosi to pass the bill as a partisan Democratic bill, they were going to wage a demagogic anti-bailout campaign. But Pelosi refused to be played for a sucker and so the conservative inadvertently sank a bill that, all evidence suggests, they actually wanted to pass. They just wanted to vote “no” on it for short-term political gain.
These people are unfit to hold the offices they do. Fortunately there will be significantly fewer if them left after this falls election.
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