If you want bipartisan support, don’t get partisan
I’m normally not one to complain about partisanship, as I thrive on it. However, our Congressional leaders seem to be lamenting the lack of bipartisanship in the failure of yesterday’s mortgage bailout legislation. While we, the people, can take credit for putting the brakes on this thing, illustrating that the rank-and-file masses often know better than the people we elect to office, Speaker of State Nancy Pelosi apparently did herself no favors right before the vote was taken, even while Democrats blame the GOP for the bill’s failure.
Republicans blamed Pelosi’s scathing speech near the close of the debate — which assailed Bush’s economic policies and a “right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation” of financial markets — for the defeat. It was not much different from her usual tough words against the president and his party.
“We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the Speaker gave on the floor of the House,” Boehner said.
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the whip, estimated that Pelosi’s speech changed the minds of a dozen Republicans who might otherwise have supported the plan.
Bailout bill slapped aside; record stock plunge – Yahoo News.
Michelle Malkin has more on Pelosi’s speech.
