McCain blames Democrats for bailout defeat

Several Republican aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had torpedoed any spirit of bipartisanship that surrounded the bill with her scathing speech near the close of the debate that blamed Bush's policies for the economic turmoil.

Without mentioning her by name, Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., No. 3 Republican, said: "The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side."

Opponents said part of the reason for the opposition from Republicans was what they termed a partisan speech by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said one GOP source.

"Pelosi's partisan speech has caused our members to go berserk and may cost us any remaining chance to pass the bill," the source said.

Pelosi had said that Congress needed to pass the bill, even though it was an outgrowth of the "failed economic policies" of the last eight years.

"When was the last time someone asked you for $700 billion?" she asked. "It is a number that is staggering, but tells us only the costs of the Bush administration's failed economic policies — policies built on budgetary recklessness, on an anything goes mentality, with no regulation, no supervision, and no discipline in the system."

TRUTH IS SPREADING ABOUT OBAMA'S TIES TO TERRORIST!

Barack Obama has had a long association with his friend William Ayers, who was on the FBI's Most Wanted list for nearly a DOZEN terrorist attacks.

NOBODY in the mainstream media has wanted to talk about this fact -- until WE started FORCING them to.

Just this week, the Wall Street Journal's Stanley Kurtz ran a HUGE exposé on the long relationship between Obama and Ayers, entitled "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools" -- giving details about what they did together, and revealing to the nation what we've been saying all along

The truth is finally starting to get out about Obama's terrorist ties -- but we need YOUR help to FORCE the media to deal with that truth and NOT LET UP or "sweep it under the rug!"

William Charles Ayers and Barack Obama have been friends for decades.

This is a man who has admitted to BOMBING THE PENTAGON -- and has never expressed one ounce of regret for his actions. Ayers is a terrorist -- and Obama is his friend and political student.

Obama has tried to dismiss Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) archives, housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, make it VERY clear that Ayers and Obama were partners in the CAC in the 1990s. But that's not all -- there is clear evidence that Obama and Ayers were friends all the way back in 1986.

Obama and Ayers served together in 1995 on the CAC, overseeing the distribution of about $50 million to area schools through radical left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN). As the Journal reports, Ayers "called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism."

That same year -- 1995 -- Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a gathering at Ayers's own home!

THE WORD IS FINALLY GETTING OUT about Obama's connections to this radical left-wing terrorist -- but we need YOUR help to FORCE the media to deal with that truth and NOT LET UP or "sweep it under the rug!"

What does the association between Ayers and Obama say about Obama's political views and perspective?

Ayers was an anti-American, traitorous radical who will stop at nothing to push his hateful communist agenda. (Yes he called himself a "radical, Leftist, communist"!)

In the 1960s and '70s, he was a leader in the notorious underground terrorist group, the "Weathermen." The Weathermen declared war on the United States government, and they bombed over 30 establishments (leading to multiple fatalities, including police officers).

Ayers is unapologetic about his terrorist activities. In fact, he even said he didn't do enough bombing!

Incredibly, on Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers is quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs … I feel we didn't do enough."

WHAT??? How could a man like Barack Obama associate with such a dangerous radical? And even defend him?

Obama and Ayers not only worked hand-in-hand at the CAC; they worked together at the "Woods Fund," and had a number of forums to fight legislation together. And guess what "nonprofit organizations" benefited from funds directed to them by Obama and Ayers? How about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church, for starters?

And now Obama, Ayers' friend, could be sitting in the White House next year -- unless WE tell the American people the TRUTH about them!

We can't do that without YOUR help -- and with barely ONE MONTH left before the most important election of our lifetime, TIME IS RUNNING OUT to get the truth out there NOW!

We MUST continue to get the word out there about Obama and his ties to terrorists like William Ayers, a man who once said, "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at." A man who bombed the Pentagon and doesn't regret it. And the man who almost single-handedly launched Barack Obama's political career.

The major media have already decided who their candidate is! MSNBC host Chris Matthews says Barack Obama makes a "thrill" go up his leg when he hears him speak.

Oprah Winfrey thinks she has picked your next president!

But you can STOP Chris Matthews, Oprah and the rest of the liberal media.

You can say, WE the American people will pick our president.

Thank you Pelosi, Obama and Reid for SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and Life's Savings in the Stock Market.

You couldn't keep your partisan mouths SHUT could you?

You need to resign from Congress now!!!!!

All John did was phone in. He hardly spent anytime on thee Hill and when he did he did not say anything.

There are some terrible politics going on here and if history is a guide the Republicans are trying like hell to protect their rich buddies and the Democrats are trying to protect the little guy.

"Politics ahead of country".
Kind of like when you picked your VP to gain the female and religios votes, right, John?

This is a great illustration of how McCain consistently fails the leadership test. His cynical comments add nothing towards a solution.

I suggest McCain look at WHO voted AGINST the bill - stupid !!! it was the republicans that defeated it. DUHHHHH!!!

I think McCain's melanoma reached his brain long ago. Republicans deserted a Republican bill submitted by a Republican White House, and it's the Democrats' fault. Sure. How's that $250 million Freddie Mac lobbyist working out at your campaign, Johhny Boy?

Wow, the McCain mouthpiece is right - that is EXACTLY what Senator McCain did! He phoned it in, failed to lead, attacked Obama, and put his overarching ambition to be president over his country. The man has no honor.

Absolutely right... Country First! John McCain is the right man for the job, willing to put aside party politics for the better of the country...

This sums it up perfectly. A lot of Democrats even opposed thebill as well, since the Dem's didn't need the Repbulican votes- they could have passd it. Instead of working with McCain they just attacked him.

What great leadership from the Dem. leaders. Yes, this makes me want to vote for Obama and this parisan and uncompetent party.

Oh but wait, why are we in this situation? Could it be John McCain's Republican Party? Let's just blame Bill Clinton.

Let's see if I understand this. House Republicans vote 2:1 against the bill, House Democrats for 3:1 for the bill and the Democrats are at fault because it is defeated??? John McCain must have bumped his head pretty hard bailing out of that airplane.

Frank Rich called this one. The un-American John S. McCain would rather tank the economy than lose an election. This manufactured crisis is being brought to you by the same corporatists who shut down the government during the Clinton administration. These folks are really gutless; no wonder McCain can’t look anyone in the eyes. Now former House speaker Newt Gingrich is criticizing the effort to save the American economy from the quagmire that his, President Bush and Senator McCain’s support of International Corporatism has placed America. These International corporatists, much like their cousins International Communists have sought to have all of the wealth and resources of the world controlled by international cartels. They have viewed the role of the US government instead of providing for the general welfare of the country to be to provide for the feed and caring of these corporate cartels. Their goal is the complete destruction of the middle class in this country. They want international low cost workers where these cartels will have the same cheap labor through out the world, no worker nor environmental protection and minimal worker benefits, if any. In the case and point of the United States, their goal is to see no difference between the Mexican and the American worker. They don’t believe in maintaining any infrastructure, hence their demagoguery of any infrastructure expenditures as pork barrel spending. They believe the American worker should be kept uneducated, hence are grandchildren and great grandchildren are now less educated by the public schools than we were. That some of these corporatists, such as presidential candidate McCain want to label themselves as populists is laughable. You look into the eyes of Senator McCain and you see the soul of Comrade Nikita Khrushchev. At the next debate, don’t be surprised if the reckless, irresponsible, and uncontrollable John McCain starts banging his shoe on the podium.

Nice try McCain.... Heard from Keating lately? Nancy Pelosi told the truth. "You can't handle the truth!"

Oh GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

The only reason McSame even went to Washington was to politically posture. Boy the republicals have reached to new depths of lies in their attempts to paint the economic meltdown we're about to experience, as well as its cause, as the fault of anyone on the Democratic side.

Get it straight... republicals created the climate for the meltdown, as Pelosi correctly pointed out, then refused to act, directly causing the meltdown that will happen, by sitting on their hands because their feelings were hurt by the truth.

What a bunch of spoiled babies!!

Clinton policy started all this mess.

Hello!! It was REPUBLICANS (mcsame's party) that FAILED to approve this bill. As usual, they are at fault!

When it comes to the battle for our economic security, John McCain is AWOL. He has no strategy, he has no tactics, and he is not fighting for the folks. I can't believe he is trying to take credit for any efforts to prevent economic meltdown.

Well, what did you expect? Obama hasn't bothered to vote for much of anything ELSE! Why should this one be any different? You people should remember that it was Bill Clinton who got us into this mess in the first place. Combine that with a Democrat controlled congress and you've got a recipe for disaster. I only hope that people open their eyes before November. Obama represents the dog whistle of the doomed.

Only one third of the Republicans voted for the bailout. They only needed a handful of votes to pass it. The Republicans are just as guilty of playing politics if they failed to support the bill because of Pelosi's comments.

haha. John McCain didn't do anything except go to Washington as a political stunt.

first of all The majority agains the bill were republicans. Instead of blaiming eachother. the should focus on the things they need to accomplish.

Unbeleivable. McCain is blaming Obama? This is a bill that needs to be passed with 50% of the vote coming from both parties so one cannot blame the other, or use it as ammunution against the other in the election to come. McCain is trying to politsize this (pardon my spelling). Most of main street does not want the bill so voting for it is not very popular. I listened to Pelosi's comments and though they were a little harsh, they were very true. More needed to be said that both parties had a hand in deregulation, she hit the nail on the head as to how we got into this mess.

The majority of Democrats voted for the bill, while the majority of Republicans did not. You simply cannot spin that fact.

This is what I call seasoned leadership. Rush into a situation that's making progress, do nothing as it falls apart, and blame everybody else.
Frankly I don't think there is a legitimate leader left in this country. The candidates won't speak up until they know what the consensus is and the concept of compromise, which created our constitution in the first place, is widely viewed as a sign of weakness. Until we demand that our elected officials put genuine management and problem-solving ahead of posturing, butt-covering and finger-pointing I'm afraid we'll get what we settle for.

The republicans put politics before country; they want this to be a democratic bill so they can rail against it and say "well I didn't vote for it."

Republicans want the bill to pass, but they don't want to take responsibility for it. That's called "passing the buck."

This needs to be a bipartisan bill, not a democratic bill, since both parties are responsible for this mess.

More gimmicks, lies, deception and incompetence.

Two thirs of the Republicans have refused the plan and Mc Cain blames the Democrats: this guy is a clown !

Strange thinking on McCain's part that Obama was related to the fact that less than 1/3 of House Republicans voted for the measure. Wasn't it MCCAIN who was the voice of the recalcitrant House Repuplicans last week on Thursday? and then he was working the phones on Saturday. Obama has left the Washington politicking to his party's leaders...and they did bring over 2/3 of their party in the House to YES.

Aside from what people think of McCain and his many good qualities, his blatant, unwarranted politicizing of things is remarkable....To me, it does lead to questions about his judgment and seems to put a lie to his statements that he will be bi-partisan if president.

Serious judgment problems....

McCains slogan "country first" is getting old.

I would change it to "pragmatism before ideology".

You stupid fools. We could have had a deal last week were it not for Republicans. You guys are playing games and you don't seem to care or know what the risks are. McCain suspended his campaign and accomplished nothing.
McCain is angry. He should be. He put this nation at risk. But the blame belongs with him.

I love it! Decades of republican ideology-driven economics crashes and burns and they have the nerve to try to blame the democrats. Good one, rightwingnuts!

The Democrats? Excuse me! "Numerous members of Bush's own Republican party in the House opposed the package, before the vote, because they believed it would be an overly intrusive government intervention in the markets."

And the

The Bush administration failed to bring them in line in time for Monday's crucial vote.

The Bush administration failed to bring them in line in time for Monday's crucial vote.

McCain blaming democrats is too, too bizarre. It seems that it is his party which screwed the whole thing. Poor McCain--just couldn't wear the white hat. At this point, I think I would advise Obama to leave the mess to McCain and his cronies who caused this problem in the first place. Let them figure out how to get out of this. McCain is as guilty as Bush as he has been a prime voice for deregulation for years. He is a very sick man who will not face the consequences of his past actions and beliefs. I am so angry at his lying and politicking that typing is becoming difficult.

"Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain, and refused to even say if he supported the final bill."

If Obama refused to say if he supported the final bill, so did McCain. The only statement on McCain's website about the bill is an excerpt from an interview he did on a Sunday morning show: "I'd like to see the details but hopefully yes and from the outlines that I have read of it, that this is something that all of us will swallow hard and go forward with. The option of doing nothing is simply not an acceptable option."

Obama is not as reckless as McCain, and the only reason
McCain went to washington was because that day his poll numbers dropped 9 points.Thanks John,anymore Country First crappolla and we won't have a country.

PUMA, why don't you menopausal old biddies just shut up. Hillary lost the primaries. McCain is hoping you are dumb enough to think that Palin is qualified to be VP simply because she has a uterus. Give me a break!

I can't believe the MORANS who are posting LIES about OBAMA.. YOU MORANS PUT Bush in the WHITE HOUSE and look what he did. NO MORE MORANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.. YOU PEOPLE ARE THE REAL TERRORIST WHO ARE RAPING THIS COUNTRY FOR LAST 8 YEARS... GO BACK TO YOUR CAVES YOU IDIOTS,...

Yo Mccain ... stop blaming people, get the things done, you don't do anything good, just keep pointing fingers at people when things don't happen your way. Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The vote failed 228 to 205.

Democrats: 140 for, 95 against.
Republicans: 65 for, 133 against.

So how, exactly, was its failure to pass the Democrats' fault? What about McCain's failure to rally members of his own party to support the bill?

Um... from what I can tell the GOP was the party against this bill. They should probably check their math.

Am I missing something here? Fact check this if you like: Democrats supported the bill and Republicans voted it down. How can you put the failure of this bill on Dems? If Pelosi slammed the GOP policies before the vote, good for her for speaking the truth.

Uh, didn't far more Republicans than Democrats vote against this Bill?

Similarly, Obama's press release stated, "While I look forward to reviewing the language of the legislation, it appears that the tentative deal embraces these principles. When taxpayers are asked to take such an extraordinary step because of the irresponsibility of a relative few, it is not a cause for celebration. But this step is necessary."

McCain also praised the House Republicans in his speech. Evidently they are people who can be dissuaded from putting "Country First" if they feel hurt by a San Francisco liberal.

Do the McCain people really think we are all so stupid? Look at the bailout vote numbers today - more Democrats voted for the bailout than Republicans!

Yeah, Uncle Rico, just like Obama having his "acceptance" speech fall the same day as MLK's Dream Speech or speaking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to launch his campaign, at the time a 2yr junior senator.

Pelosi, I wish that glass ceiling was a bit lower. You ruined my 401K!!!

Wait a minute. How is this in any way Obama's fault? It was a coalition of House Republicans and Democrats who torpedoed this compromise. And if Republican's switched their votes after Pelosi's speech, then they have definitely put polictics first. Forget that "country first" stuff they were spouting at the RNC...

just passing through. this looks to be a Republican hot spot rag sheet. oh look there's Rush Limbaugh over there by the bar....

I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in
a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000
bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
A husband and wife has $595,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.

Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.

Buy a new car - create jobs

Invest in the market - capital drives growth

Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves

Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks
who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company
that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed
Forces.

If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of
trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed
by one of our candidates for President.

If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.

Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.

Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."

But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion

We all deserve the "We Deserve It Dividend more than do the geniuses at AIG or in
Washington DC.

And remember, The plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because
$25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

When is McCain not busy blaming someone for something he did or failed to do these days? It's sad. He used to be respectable.

are you people crazy?

just yesterday mccain's campaign chief and mitt romney said there would be no deal without mccain. now it failed because of house republicans, so if mccain wanted some preemptive credit yesterday then he deserves the blame now.

you know *why* mccain was attacked when he went to washington? because it was a stupid move that poisoned the atmosphere in d.c. and injected presidential politics where they shouldn't have been *just like obama predicted*.

mccain is just astonishing in his back-and-forth and outright lies during this crisis.

and the media made kerry out to be a flip-flopper ...

John McCain - "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
This guy's clueless and will blame anybody in order to get elected... keep in mind it was Republicans, especially McCain/Gramm who legislated deregulation and hard right Republicans who are blocking any attempt at a bailout that doesn't protect the rich and well connected.

Isn't it true that George Bush's stewardship of the economy that has failed us? Not sure what is partisan about this.

By the way, please be a bit level headed and post relevant comments instead of insults. The man or woman who has lacks the wisdom to offer a constructive view usually ends up insulting others.

Please be sensible and cohenerent in your comments.

Excuse me? Where was McCain's leadership on this? By a 2-1 margin it was Republicans who sunk this bill. Who is he trying to fool here? Truth is Republicans made a failed attempt to have the bill pass with only Democratic support in order to save their own butts and are now trying to blame Democrats for their own mendacity. Stunning. So much for "Country First". Maybe Sarah Palin should suspend her campain and fly in to save the day.

You can accuse McCain of anything in his decisions, but the decision speaks for itself, Uncle Rico - Obama is NOT what this country needs. It needs patriotism, not division. McCain is the patriot, Obama is not.

The facts are that 60% of the Democrats voted for the bailout, but 2/3 of the Republicans put reelection ahead of doing the right thing for their country. John McCain spoke to these people. Whatever he said did not get the job done.

Wasn't it John McCain bragging this morning that he helped bring Republicans on board for the vote? Where is his leadership? How come he could only get one third of his own party to support him? The Repubs official response was that they were upset by something Pelosi said is absurd. They were elected by the people for the people. Why weren't they thinking about us, the little guys? Oh wait they are only out to protect their rich buddies. I hope McCain enjoyed his dinner with Lieberman at that posh restaurant. Too bad most of us can't afford such things. I guess you are out of touch. As we worry about our homes, jobs, pensions, you were out celebrating at the fancy restaurant

It seems like the democrats are trying to help out the big corporations
as well as their jobs. I guess they really don't care about the people.

They control the house. If all the democrats wanted this bill to go through
it would have. Everyone should blame the dems.
It's their fault.

A lot of vacant seats will be up for grabs come november, on the dems side.

I think the bigger issue that MUST be brought to light is the fact that the bastards on the left rejected an opportunity to control the secondary subprime market more than 3 years ago when Republicans first proposed S.190.

Instead the pack of thieves with "D's" behind their names stuffed their pockets full of "campaign contributions" from the Freedie and Fannie mae fan club.

It is them that should have to face a judge.

Looks like McCain is insane and a few others too. The votes are clear -- the REPUBLICAN PARTY voted against this in significant numbers whereas the majority of Dems supported it. If anyone seriously thinks Reps voted against the bill because of Pelosi's rhetoric, that certainly means THEY put politics ahead of country.
As world panic sets in and credit it frozen NATIONWIDE and businesses start to shut their doors and many of those angry constituents are UNEMPLOYED, who gets blamed at the end of the day won't matter. Our house is on FIRE. LET'S PUT IT OUT.

I was a reluctant Obama supporter. I was worried that he may be all hype and no substance. I really wanted to believe in him: Our First Black President. But I couldn't bring myself to fully believe. There's something fake about him. Something mechanical and calculating. As if he is entitled to my support and vote. And his campaign and his Obama Thought Police have been too aggressive for my taste. And the media is clearly one-sided. I can't believe that things they are holding against Sarah Palin. HUGE HEADLINE: PALIN ACCEPTED BOQUET OF FLOWERS, as if that is the worst thing anyone has done. I still don't know that much about Obama even though I read his books about himself. I feel that he and the media are still hiding something from me. I was a fair competition. I am disgusted by all thisfighting. Today was the worse: CONGRESS GET YOUR ACT TTOGETHER!

It seems like the democrats are trying to help out the big corporations
as well as their jobs. I guess they really don't care about the people.

They control the house. If all the democrats wanted this bill to go through
it would have. Everyone should blame the dems.
It's their fault.

A lot of vacant seats will be up for grabs come november, on the dems side.

The dems delivered 2/3 of their votes in favor of the legislation.

The repubs fell short, delivering only 1/3 of their votes.

If there was any leadership on the republican side this thing would have passed.

To blame a partisan speech by Pelosi is ridiculous... so house republicans voted against the future of the country because their feelings were hurt??

John McLame has shown real leadership, he came out and supported the bailout but but couldnt deliver the votes. So the best he can do is blame the democrats. The Dems delivered 2/3 of their constituents, the Republicons delivered 1/3, so the republicons sunk the bill.

McLame should be ashamed of himself for trying to blame Obama for his incompetance. The republicans and their lack of regulation have caused this mess.

Much thanks to George W Bush and his 90% accomplice John McCain for putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse AGAIN. Lehman president took home 350 million in the past 7 years. 350 million!

That is who you should be angry with.

When all the "average" Americans who didn't think Wall Street needed or deserved an agreement check their retirement accounts this evening, they are going to realize that this financial crisis affects everyone, not just rich CEOs.

All you uneducated people bashing the Dems for sinking the vote, the majority vote against the bill was Republican. So either Republicans are the ones guilty of sinking the bailout themselves or Republicans are too f*(&in stupid to think for themselves because they were "influenced" by a "speech" from Pelosi. Either way you don't deserve to be in power. All you Republicans can go to Hell for the disaster you visited on this nation

The "bailout" failure of the day was Pelosi. Last Thursday, she & Barney Frank boasted that they could deliver ALL the Democrats and DID NOT EVEN NEED THE REPUBLICANS in the House for the vote to pass.OOPS! Now she turns around and blames the Republicans for not voting for the plan-- after she hurls her insults at the House GOP. It appears more than 90 people in her own party did not go along with her (which she obviously took for granted)---- YET she puts full blame at the House GOP's feet. It's clear that her clout within her party was so poor that she DID need the House GOP afterall. Guess what Pelosi! If you want someone's support, you don't poke them in the eye, insult them and spit at them right before you ask them for a vote. I think most people in America learned that on the playground in 2nd grade.

It's clear, partisan rantings were far more important to Pelosi than the good of America's economy.

Last time I checked, two thirds of republicans did not vote for the bill. It doesn't sound to me like McCain helped much to recruit Republican congressmen to pass the bailout.

you guys are not here in what we like to call the world.

house republicans voted against the bill the moronic president bush proposed. you will lose in nov!

If anyone thinks that one little speech by Pelosi would change the minds of some republicans and therefore defeat the bill, then those republicans shouldn't be there in the first place. The bill failed because enough is enough...why should we the taxpayers have to bail out financial institutions who have taken advantage of hardworking Americans and are walking away with millions?? No one is bailing out those whose homes are in foreclosure, are they? Let it crash...

Perhaps Pelosi's words were imprudent and regrettable. However, each Congressman is ultimately responsible for how they cast their vote, and saying "she ticked me off so I took my ball and went home" does not seem like a sufficient excuse in these circumstances. It certainly seems no worse than Democrats having to hear their patriotism questioned every time they did not give the Imperial Presidency the blank check it sought.

Why are all these absurd comments on a page called Political Intelligence? There's not a shred of intelligence (or truth) in anything the McCain camp has said since he started running for president.

Pathetic! They all should be fired, kicked out of Washington ... In 2006 the Dems took control of both houses of Congress. Look what they've done for this country and TO this country in the past 2 years. You want "change"? How quickly everyone forgets...

Give us a huge break here Senator McCain. You are hardly in a position to cast aspersions on the other guy. Your accusations must be coming from a guilty conscience because you've been playing politics ever since you entered the race. Shame on you for adding fuel to the fire now. Try acting like a leader instead of having your campaign issue rhetoric. Disgusting.

Aww, did someone hurt your feelings? it's sickening that the Republicans would hide behind Pelosi's speech. You either think the plan is the right course or you don't. Is someone hurting your feelings enough to make you change your mind? I mean, seriously. Grow up.

I'm not saying the speech was a good idea. But grow a little honesty.
"refused to even say if he supported the final bill." The same could be said for McCain on Friday, who didn't actually say anything.

McCain's VP choice wasn't a stunt trying to gain female and religious votes. It was a choice to gain conservative votes. Thanks to those elected officials who listened to the people and voted down the bailout.

um....

boys and girls, aren't we forgetting that the Republicans are the ones who voted against it?

you're saying they got all mad at Pelosi and cut off their nose to spite thier face? Oh, poor little repubi's. maybe they should go back to mamma and come back to congress when they grow a spine.

and McCain said he was gonna make it happen. What a leader. Yeah, right.

I think it is ridiculous that anyone would say that a bipartisan speech would keep someone from voting for something they believe in. So we should now think that the Republicans didn't vote for the bill out of spite because of the speech. To me, that reflects much more poorly on them than Pelosi. It sounds like we have 3 year olds in the House of Representatives to me!

Oh no no no, the Republicans are NOT going down that "Obama is a terrorist sympathizer" route again?! How many fact-checkers have to say that this story is a total fabrication before they stop spewing it??

I'm sorry, but more republicans voted against the bailout bill than democrats. Did any of you even look at the numbers?

Puma you's a damn fool

I think it is quite funny how John McCain was Johnny on the spot like mighty mouse "here I come to save the day!" was the only person who could save this bill, and is now blaming the dems for its failure. Perhaps it failed due to poor leadership little Guy.?.

Pretty petty to vote down such an apparently important piece of legislation just because you didn't like a speech. The Republicans would rather let the economy go down the toilet than show some leadership and take responsibility.

You gotta love the Republicans. Their erstwhile leader blames the Democrats for the failure of the bailout package, even though 60 percent of Republicans voted against it, and only 40 percent of Democrats did likewise.

Then, you've got some Republicans claiming they voted against it because their feelings were hurt by a speech.

Poor widdle babies.

Really, the spin in here is unreal. The more the hate is spewed at Obabma the more it is obvious who the real scum are. It's so easy to blame the black man for this. You American right wingers should be ashamed of yourselves.

Your ignornace, hate & greed will be the death of many of us, and you'll still find someone else to blame. Look int he mirror for a change.

hilarious

please, continue to LIE, i am falling off my chair.

Obama could find cures for Cancer and AIDS and John McCain would attack him.

thanks for writeing this it helped me on my home work

60% of democrats voted yea on the bill. Only 1/3 of Republicans did. So... democrats are to blame for it being rejected? Not the people who voted no... they aren't to blame at all.

Really?

I thought the bill died because 113 Republicans didn't vote for it. Perhaps I'm wrong. Thank God Team McCain is there to sort things right.

Let me see if I got this straight. The Republicans voted against it due to something Pelosi said. And they are blaming the Democrats. "It's all your fault that we voted the way we did". Yeah! I'm buying that one, all right. Yeah. That's the ticket.

Everybody just shut up. This isn't about McCain or Obama but instead about the American economy and where we go from here. The man holding the reins right now is President Bush and I voted for him. We live and learn. Get over it.

Ummm...

The official tally of the vote:
Democrats: 141 in favor, 94 opposed
Republicans: 65 in favor, 133 opposed

So...more Democrats voted for this bill than Republicans, but it's the Democrat's fault it failed? Huh?

Wow, the first three posts here are from people that just believe whatever McCain has to say. The only reason house REPUBLICANS are able to vote this bill down is that John McCain gave them the opportunity to do so by suspending his campaign. They've acknowledged this and otherwise would have felt compelled to vote for the economy, the financial infrastructure and the country. This may be unpopular but house REPUBLICANS need to vote affirmatively for this now or we need an alternative plan last week.

BTW, read between the lines when McCain speaks, he's usually trying to deflect the blame from where it belongs and put other people on the offensive though I think a majority of people have awakened to his responsibility dodging tactics.

If the vote failed because of Pelosi's speech, doesn't that mean that the people that voted against it even though they support it put politics ahead of country?

So somehow the democrats forced the republicans to tank the bill? This article totally neglects the fact that the bill was proposed by the republican white house and supported by the democrats. It is the republican's who torpedoed the bill. Let the democrats say what they want, just get the job done. Don't vote no and then claim it was because the Democrats weren't being nice enough to get you to vote for it. If the bill needs to pass vote yes. It's not rocket science, and its hard to pass the blaim of failure onto the people who voted "yes."

So John McCain has run to the press to turn this into a partisan debate? LOL and of course the so call 'liberal media' gives it plenty of air time.

This is just lovely how these GOPbots are spewing forth their frothy Santorum all over the internet!

IS MCCAIN KIDDING? Only 30% of Republicans voted for the bill that a Republican President and a Republican Treasury Secretary put forward. Is John McCain this much of a joke? This is a completely ridiculous statement when it was House Republicans who couldnt get 50% of their collegues to vote for a bill that the president and sentate and house leadership on teh Republican side supported. Compeltely irresponsible statement by McCain and completely irresponsible action by House Republicans. Nancy Pelosi could have used nicer language but PLEASE? People aren't going to vote for a bill because of Nancy's Pelosi''s speech??

So am I to understand that the Republicans chose to sink the economy because they didn't like the Speaker's SPEACH? Holy *$%#!@*!

Awwww.... were the Republicans' feelings hurt by what the big mean lady said about them? So much so that they tanked the economy? Gimme a break... The Democrats delivered their votes, the Republicans did not, and in doing so the Republicans killed the bailout package. One would think the Republicans would have learned their lesson about "free market" corrections in 1929, but apparently history is a tough pill to swallow. Republicans can laughably argue that they were in favor of the bill until Pelosi shot her mouth off, but only a 5-year-old would run home and refuse to play after such a verbal barrage. Republicans did get one thing right today... they just handed the election to the Democrats.

Majority of Democrats voted for the bill.
Majority of Republicans voted against.
Clearly Obama's fault.

That was a revealing comment above, about Republicans going berserk because of a Pelosi speech. They can't even control themselves, yet want to govern the country. On top of that they want to blame Pelosi, who voted for the bill, for their negative vote! These guys are masters of double speak.

The fact is, about 70% of the Republicans voted NO, while about 60% of Dems voted YES for the bailout.
The problem is, the cynical rich Republicans in power are SO GOOD at manipulating their fellow brainless idiot Republicans, that by pointing a finger at the Democrat Pelosi, they've convinced countless of you fools that it failed because of "partisan politics"...
Look at the vote people! It didn't pass because they didn't vote for it...
How stupid are you, people? Really!

If the vote failed because of Pelosi's speech, doesn't that mean that the people that voted against it even though they support it put politics ahead of country?

Hang on... I'm a Republican, and totally for McCain, but everything I was hearing on CSpan this morning was primarily Republicans balking on this deal (not all), most Democrats were for this deal... Let's just hope it means there will be a better deal...and fast! Not sure why no one's listening to Newt Gingrich... has some great ideas...

McCain and the Republican leaders are idiots!! How can you say a speech swayed your vote? It is either the right thing to do...or it isnt! What a bunch of babies. They are allowing their feelings to get in the way of doing the right thing. What a bunch of wimps......

Stupid people stick to doctrine, believe memes and scuttlebutt, and think with their heads in the sand. You fools can't blame Obama OR McCain alone for years of unregulated thieves whooping it up in the Wall Street crack party. Now despite politics as usual including plenty of dopes on both sides of the aisle, the tab comes due. As usual it is the vast working class who is saddled with the costs. All the political diatribe and twisted "truths" won't undo this fact. To an extent we all hopped on the greed train and now the tracks have run out. Problem is "everyman" can't offshore their swag in untraceable bearer bonds, gold ingot, or numbered accounts.

We all should note that the vote in the House failed because numerous Republicans refused to support the bill. If Obama truly has the power to influence Republicans to vote against a bill introduced and supported by President Bush and advocated by John McCain, doesn't that mean he will be wonderfully successful in ending the gridlock that too often characterizes partisan politics in Washington? Isn't this exactly the kind of leadership we want?

The crazy guy with the Obama-Ayers rant are you serious? You woke up today and this is what you decided to do with your life?

Hey, McClum -> At least McCain came back to Washington and tried to spend time working at his JOB - which is United States Senator. I guess Obama can't be bothered by such mundane tasks - like working for a living.

I think you need to get out of the ancient "Republicans are for the rich people" mindset. If it wasn't for the House Republicans standing up against this stupid deal, your tax money would be forked over to these lending institutions never to be returned - and 20% of the profit from any sale of these properties would be going directly to an organization called ACORN - which has been caught in numerous instances of voter fraud for Democrat candidates. Do you really think that little nugget "slipped by" Pelosi, Reid and Barney Frank? I think not.

Wow. Looks like the Rove moles are out in force.

Well, leave it to McCain to blame, blame, blame Obama, to bomb, bomb, bomb Obama, to drill, drill, drill Obama, to bail, bal, bail, etc. His campaign has press releases ready made for any situation and the first two words are always the same: "McCain Blames....." [fill in the blank]

Desparation breeds pathological behaviour and McCain is becoming a really pathetic figure of a man.

My question is, why dont the CEO's of these failing corporations that have put our 401(k)'s and pensions at risk, using their own money to bail out wall street? If they all put their life savings into it, i am sure they could muster 300 billiong USD. And if this is supposed to go the way they say, and we make all the money back sounds like a pretty good deal to me. If they arent willing to invest their own money in their own company, why should we be willing to give them our childrens money? Sounds pretty fishy to me.

Just another political stunt to point blame. Please Mclame can you stop all the BS tactics because the economy crisis is killing you in the polls. And Obama isn't a terrorist so your insane to post that. You think 100% of the media is liberal, please they attack both parties all the time. Don't get mad because you see your fat cat candidate losing ground. There will be no McSame '08

All of you in favor of Welfare for the Rich, feel free to vote FOR this bailout.
All others, work to get the Bush regime out of office first. Only then is there hope for the country - and the world. Note: McSame won’t be working on your behalf.

Even the Republicans realized the Bush Bridge to Nowhere will eliminate their chances of re-election.

In spite of the psycho-looney posts above, no one wants this bailout – it WON’T bail You out. So: Quit the whining about Socialism that might cost a few billion for health care. Love the socialism that sends $700 Billion to the least deserving. You won’t be hurt any more one way or the other, but you could also be $700B poorer on top of losing home & job anyway.

The Dems mustered up more than 60% of their chamber – the GOP just over 30%. Who mailed it in? Their own President's bill, no less!

LOL.....
needed :218 votes for passage.
shortage:13 votes short of that target
final vote:228 to 205 against.
About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure.
Senator Obama now needs a maths teacher after a computer one.People don't be senile like grandpa cain.....see the statistics for yourself!!!!!

So this Morning McCain was the reason the Bill passed before it passed. And now he's saying that Obama and Pelosi are the reason's it didn't pass. What are we stupid?!!!! The Republican's torpedoed this bill. McCain couldn't even get his own party yo back it. What does that say about his Leadership. Not to mention that he's an idiot running around claiming glory while doing nothing.

As a democrat...I think it's simple. The Republican's created this mess...they should clean it up. I wouldn't vote for anything. Let the economy tank...that's what the republican's voted for. We'll clean it up in Jan.

How about some mention of the Dems that pillaged Freddie-Fannie and helped bring on this crisis and when PresBush brought this up in 01 congress did nothing then again in 05 but,its the republicans fault.

OH shut up!!! McCain should have put Country First instead of selecting a dumb vice-presidential candidate like Palin who cannot answer questions as well as my 13 year old...he is more intelligent and all the baby talk she needs to be ashamed to have even allowed McCain to select her. She is a bulldog and needs to stay in Alaska !!! Where obiviously people are not informed of world affairs. SHE AIN"T NOTHING!!!! Fell Down in front of Katie Couric.

You geniuses realize that over 60% of Democrats voted for the bailout, while less than 1/3 of Republicans did, right?

You'd never know that we were being represented by mature, well-spoken professionals. Pelosi hurt someone's feelings and that justifies a revolt? Of the House's 235 Democratic members, 140 voted in favor of the bailout, 95 against. Of 199 Republicans, only 65 voted "yea."

Both Democratic and Republican leadership promised that they could get a majority of their groups to vote yea--the Dems fulfilled their promise and the GOP did not.

This is very funny. All the Republicans needed was Nancy Pelosi to speak for them to vote against the bill? A bunch of whiners, sometimes they all act like kids. For the person asking the speaker to resign, maybe your famous President should resign first. They really think we are that stupid?

McCain is playing the blame game, when he should stop grandstanding and realize that we want solutions to this crisis, not more partisan blather. The man is desperate. He has no shame.

So... the Republicans voted against the bill. But its the Democrats fault that they couldn't vote on the merits of the proposal? Do you seriously expect us to buy this?

Are you people morons?

"The measure, which is designed to get battered U.S. credit markets working normally again, needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure"

TWICE as many democrats voted for the bill as republicans. Learn percentages people.

Waitaminute.....Didn't more Republicans vote against the bailout than Democrats? Yes, 60% of Democrats vs 33% of Republicans voted in favor of the bailout. So how is this the failure of the bill to pass Democrats' fault again?

Obama the terriorist

You are such a illiterate, racist. I guess you are not watching FOX, because everynight they have a different story about Obama.
You are a typical Republican, you try to win by putting fear in everyone's mine. You know you are lying. Is this the best you can do?

McCain never put his campaign on hold. His ads continued to run, his campaign offices were open, etc. So why do the media keep saying he did?

Forbes reports:"The bill had majority support from House Democrats, at around 140-95. It was killed by staunch opposition from House Republicans, 65-133. "

How could this be the Democrats fault??

McCain decided to politicize this even more on thursday night.... that dishonorable move means he has no right to talk about others...

More Republicans voted against the bill than Democrats, so who does McCain blame?.. The people who voted for it, of course. The Republicans HAD NO CHOICE, they were dis'ed. Now ego before country, that's OK with Mac.

I've been saying all along... a great number of people who blog are full of unproven crap. This is great food for the ignorants who believe it.

About two thirds of republicans voted against it along with 40 democrats. they have been trying to get the bill past for over a week. the whole economy rests only these 436 people. and one speech did all that. truely Mccain is great for this observation.

"putting politics ahead of country".....?
do you have time for all the examples of Republicans doing this, starting with the choice of McCain's nurse as VP?
pullleeez. this deal died because it has the endorsement of the worst president in history,....period. if he's for it, anybody with half a brain would be against it, because the only people it will help are the people who got us to where we are in the first place.

A smaller percentage of Republicans supported the bill than Democrats, and it's the Democrats fault. Interesting logic.

All eight Arizona representatives - 4 Republican and 4 Democrat - voted NO. Great leadership in your own state, McCain!

Lets see the Repubs after torching all regulations for 8 years and causing the mess now blame 'hurt feelings' because they are being called in it, for trashing their own Party's bill. Lets see: "My personal feelings ahead of country", the Republican way. No one is buying it. The Republican solution is LESS REGULATION. There is still some money we didn't steal yet!

McCains statement should be entered in Webster's under "IRONY"

40% of Democrats voted no but 67% of Republicans voted no.

That's bad math Mr. McCain.

You've got to be kidding!!! As Rep Frank said, Are we to believe that Republican's voted against the American people because Pelosi hurt their feelings? republicans voted against their own leadership, thier President, and the American People... Scum is as Scum does!!! PARTY FIRST!!!! To HELL WITH THE COUNTRY!!!! Go Republican's!!!

What we do know, is that far more republicans voted down this bill than democrats. We also know that McCain brought his campaign and all the cameras to this crisis, forcing politics into a crisis situation. And, we know that McCain offered little input into the process after his dramatic lie about "suspending his campaign". His campaign kept right on going. He cancelled Letterman to go to Washington, only to take a moment to campaign in an interview with Katie Couric. The situation was so urgent, but not urgent enough to stop the campaign...

McCain blames the Dems???? This IS the same McCain who sat in the meeting with Obama, Bush, Paulson and the rest without saying one, single word for 40 minutes? Who is he kidding? This, from the same man who brought you unregulated banking and finance for 26 years!

How can McCain blame Obama/democrats when both of them had a similar if not identical stand on the bailout during thier debate, Both stated it was a necessary evil to rescue the economy. Furthermore 60% house of democrats voted for it as opposed to only 30% of house republicans.

How exactly are the Dems being blamed for this - they voted for it, the republicans didn't.

Are the republicans trying to tell me that Pelosi's speech caused them to vote against a bill they believed in, just to save their pride? Please.

McCain's comments are really quite unbelievable. Come on, folks, let's take a breath and count to ten.

House Republicans rebelled and voted against the plan. Neither the President nor Sen. McCain could sway their votes. Why House Republicans did what they did will need to be explained. I suspect, though I don't know, that they felt it was horribly unpopular among Republican voters and endangered their re-election bids. I've spoken to Republican friends who make no secret of their anger at this bailout.

I don't think people really understand what's going on here, and now I think a deflationary spiral is unavoidable. Our politics has failed. (Can you say, Great Depression 2?) Blaming this all on Sen. Obama is silly and makes me wonder if the Republican candidate has any idea what's going on here.

Both sides are to blame. This country is failing so fast, we are in worse shape now since the civil war. This country is collapsing before our eyes, and with it's collapse, will bring major problems to the whole world.

how is it the democrats fault when the majority of republicans voted no and the majority of dems voted yes? where does that logic possibly come into play??

Check your facts. More Republicans voted against the bailout than Democrats.

McCain Colluded with North Vietnamese!

Do you really believe that the Vietcong graciously let John McCain remain a prisoner simply because he asked? If they didn't want him because of his political ties, surely they would have simply deposited him at the nearest American base. It's ludicrous to think they gave him an option. The truth is that he was actively fighting against American interests even then, and probably still is!

People who regurgitate republican talking points make me want to blow chunks.
Obama a terrorist… when was the last time you saw a terrorist who was also a community organizer.

ALSO any Intelligent non fat cat knows this bill was for the negative. Even the GOP knew that.

Pelosi decision to not return from vacation to work on the financial issue in August directly contributed to our current problem. Her lack of leadership has been apparent since being selected as the House Speaker. It is time to vote members of congress out and hope to elect a new generation of politicians.

Get your facts straight... It's obvious that the republicans caused this bill not to pass.

It was initially a republican bill for starters.

House vote: 228 No to 205 Yes.

133 Republicans voted no
95 Democrats voted no.

McCain is again playing politics. He is partly to blame for only 32% of Republicans supporting the bill. He wants to hold the democrats who voted by 60% to pass the measure. McCain will see the nation go into depression rather than lose an election. That is not change we need.

i for one could care less about what party wins the white house and i stongly believe they both are corrupt to the core. take a walk through history and you will see the relatives of 80% of our government have been leading this nation since day 1 and you have to ask yourself why?how?who? and also all conspiracy theories aside something is definitly broke here and were paying the same people to make the same mistakes over and over,im voting for Obama for the best reason i can think of and thats to get these people and there families out of our pockets and wallets,he may do the same as they did but i say lets find out.

Really? So, for the failure of the bill, McCain is blaming Democrats, who voted for the bill 2 to 1?

Not Republicans, who voted against the bill 2 to 1?

I think his whole campaign just had a senior moment.

This is Obama and the Dem's fault, the sky is orange, the earth is flat, and dinosaurs roamed 3,900 years ago. Keep it coming!

I have no 401k, no savings ... I am a broken poor citzen
What else could I get worse on my financial situation

It is so obvious that the crook John McCain and the other house reps have joined to vote against the bailout plan which thier own leader Bush so urgently wanted to avoid a financial meltdown. For all his bragging about being a maverick and bipartisan player McCain seems to have done nothing to convince the house reps to vote to pass the bill. Now he turns around to blame Obama. What an idiot.

Actually, that bill was not going to do anything for homeowners or the working people in this country. They are all against the bill, and the republicans voted it down because they were afraid of not getting reelected.

McCain's blame is misplaced. Maybe he needs to propose an alternative that benefits more than the rich, irresponsible bankers that created the mess. Pelosi voted for it save her own millions of dollars invested in Wall Street. This bailout is a terrible piece of legislation.

How can anyone blame Dems for this when they actually had the votes, whereas Republicans didn't. I am amazed by the ability of people to completely ignore facts and reality.

Democrats killed the bill huh? GOOD!!!!! Fact is Obama and McCain support this bill, so I dont support either one of them. IT IS NOT THE TAXPAYERS JOB TO BAIL OUT THE BANKS!!!!

McCain's comments are really quite unbelievable. Come on, folks, let's take a breath and count to ten.

House Republicans rebelled and voted against the plan. Neither the President nor Sen. McCain could sway their votes. Why House Republicans did what they did will need to be explained. I suspect, though I don't know, that they felt it was horribly unpopular among Republican voters and endangered their re-election bids. I've spoken to Republican friends who make no secret of their anger at this bailout.

I don't think people really understand what's going on here, and now I think a deflationary spiral is unavoidable. Our politics has failed. (Can you say, Great Depression 2?) Blaming this all on Sen. Obama is silly and makes me wonder if the Republican candidate has any idea what's going on here.

Paris Hilton is right on the money about The Old Dude

Very hard to figure that Dems are to blame when more Rethuglicans voted no.

Y'know, it's getting to be time to close these comment boxes up. The first guy plagiarized that text from CNN. The second guy is a notorious axe-grinder. The third guy used more exclamation points than sentences.

There was an article published recently on how both sides are using shills to generate Letters-to-the-Editors, blog postings, etc., in an effort to garner free publicity for their sides. I agree and am now persuaded that the Internet is a bad forum for thoughtful discussion. It is good for "yes it is / no it isn't" shouting.

As I understand it, it was the Republicans who voted against the plan.

PUMA is too funny. Pelosi made a partisan speech, bad on her. But she's not the one who voted down the deal, and she's not the one who takes the blame. It's the Republicans who'd rather make a spiteful vote than to keep our economy from having a heart attack.

Ummm... If this is true, then why did more Democrats vote in favor for it, than Republicans?

The measure, which is designed to get battered U.S. credit markets working normally again, needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure

Two-thirds of house repubilcans voted against the bill. Now, seriously -- who is to blame for this not passing? The Democrats? Why, because they hurt the Republicans' feelings? And what did McCain accomplish, anyway? He was the person who most politicized this issue!

Wait. So the Republicans vote against the bill that McCain was fine with, and this is the Democrats fault? What planet are you on?!

If McCain wasn't happy with the bill, he could've said something earlier. By all means hate the Democrats if you want, but don't make up ridiculous garbage to do so.

Umm...2/3 of the Republicans voted against this bill. How is it the Democrats' fault again?

Worst President and Administration in the history of the United States. Nice legacy to leave behind, Mr. President. $3.2 million in salary is what we gave you. And you gave nothing back. Oh yeah, I'm sooo proud to be an American.

Ummm... If this is true, then why did more Democrats vote in favor for it, than Republicans?

The measure, which is designed to get battered U.S. credit markets working normally again, needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure

Vote Count: Yes - Dems 140 Repub 65 No - Dems 95 Repubs 133

Maybe I'm very dense, but how is this Obama's fault? Seems like the Republicans are the ones who blocked this one.

Who cares what she said? Why does that change what they were going to vote?? So they changed their votes because she made some bad remarks?? Even though she did, it shouldn't change a person's vote, if they are a grown- up.

Just for the Record, more than 60% of Democrats voted for the bill while only a merely 33% of Republican did.

Get the facts before you lay the blame.

If you still don't get it, let me spell it out for you: Majority of Republicans voted AGAINST the bill.

Barack Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was involved w/ The Weathermen.

On the bailout, McCain is blaming the Dems when the vote against the measure was 228 to 205, with 133 Republicans joining 95 Democrats in opposition. The bill was backed by 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans.

There he goes again.

I think Pelosi was trying to appease the Democrats and get them over the finish line.....sounds like she crossed the line and backfired.

McCain team knows he made spectacular gaffe in the last 7 days and this will be hung around his neck (he injected himself so that's the risk)

Ummm, have you guys looked at who voted FOR and AGAINST?

Democrats: 140 in favor, 95 against
Republicans: 65 in favor, 133 against.

Are the republicans really saying they didn't vote for the bill because Pelosi hurt their feelings? Wow...

This wasn't a democratic bill! This bill was presented by the President. A republican President. It was supported by 2/3 of the democrats in the house. 2/3 of the republicans failed to support their own president's bill. Who do you think killed this bill?

how exactly is it the Democrat's fault when they voted for it, and the Republicans didn't??

READ ABOUT OBAMA'S LINKS TO "ACORN," THE RADICAL LEFTIST ORGANIZATION HE WAS AFFILIATED WITH IN THE 90s.

This group is Wacko!! You folks really want to elect this guy President???

Democrats and Republicans alike were voting on the bill, not on Pelosi's speech. If a "partisan tone at the end of the debate" did in fact "impact the votes" on the Republican side and they voted against the bill not due to its content but instead due to words merely spoken by a member of the opposing party, then those Republicans are guilty of putting "politics ahead of country."

It has all finally come home to roost. After years of putting partisan success ahead of what is good for all, after years of crony capitalism to benifit a small percentage of the poulation perhaps everyone NOW understands what trickle down economics means. (and it ain't the $600 stimulus-it's smellier than that)

People turned down the bill because thet were offended??!!?? Boo hoo hoo that lady said mean things. My pension is trashed because their sesibilities were hurt?Fire all of them- start recalls today.

Um, this post is just so we all have the facts:

To all those blaming the democrates, 60% of the Dems in the house voted yes for the bill, while >60% of the Republicans voted no. All those republicans who are upset about the bill not passing, why don't you complain to the REPUBLICAN representatives who voted no?

John McCain is just pathetic!! When the going got tough during the debate, he starts to blink excessively and then explains his POW story to gain sympathy.

John, that may work in Arizona but not this time or this year. The Dems know all of your lines and with match it word for word.

You were the one who suspended your campaign and brought politics into the process. Well, we will meet you on Tuesday at the debate....Guess what - Barack will be there.

Let me get this straight. The republicans voted against the bill because Pelosi hurt their feelings. They would like to save the economy, but Nancy was a big meanie so they cant vote yes? What a bunch of horse shit.

Isn't it partisan to not vote for such a major bill just because someone dared to mention that the bill was necessary because of George Bush's failed decisions?

It's kinda hypocritical to blame someone else because you didn't vote for something over partisan reasons.

I cannot believe that there are so many Americans who have no conception of what is going on. Are we to believe for one minute, that Republicans cast a NO vote on this bailout plan strictly because the Speaker of the House stated the obvious. Are we to believe that a vote that is so terribly important to this country and its financial future would be turned around because Nancy Pelosi called the Republicans to task. If that's the case, each and everyone of those Republicans who "changed" thier vote to NO because of that should thrown out now, without exception..

I believe a majority of Dems voted for the bill and a majority of Reps. did not. If someone decided to vote against the bill because he/she didn't like a speech.... we have bigger problems.

I love the dumbocrats, they want to give houses to losers who can't afford them (IE clintons programs) and when it backfires, they blame it Republicans. Can't Obama save you.

The democrats have the majority in the house, even if the republicans all voted no they could have passed this bill !

Miss Nancy forgets when she talks about the failed policies of the last 8 years that she controlled the majority in the house for the last four ! She needs to get a mirror to find the root cause of this problem !

Everybody needs to read about ACORN and the community reinvestment act, thank Carter and Clinton for starting this mess !!!

Where is the main stream media in this discussion ? Twisting the facts to cover for the democrats drivel !

Where were this question in the debate ?

I cannot believe McCain and the republicans have the balls to blame the democrats.

McCain's proud bipartisan leadership shines through again!
Bill failed?
BLAME THE DEMOCRATS!

All you conservatives are idiots. You're just too stupid to realize it.

The McCain campaign's assertions show how incredibly stupid they think the American people are. McCain's minimal involvement with this deal was comprised of meeting the house Republicans. This bill failed to pass because the house Republicans voted it down. If you buy these statements from the McCain campaign then you are indeed stupid and incapable of logical thought.

When you know that Barney Frank compelled the lending institutions to lend money to those who could not afford the payment by passing legislation, all of the dominoes were set-up to fall, just waiting for a downturn in the economy to start the first one. It didn't help to have Freddie and Fannie run by cronies who were there only to line their own pockets, not looking out for the interests of the American people. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the leaders of Fannie and Freddie should be prosecuted and thrown in jail. Then, the Great One, Obama, does his usual side-step and doesn't commit himself one way or another, he just votes present. I guess he is pretty familiar with that.

Good thing "Obama the Terrorist" is on the case...nobody could've have cracked that story without you. They still don't report it because they are in awe of you...you're a regular Edward R. Morrow! You should win the National Journalism Award for your detailed, fact-filled investigation. Way to go!

I agree Pelosi's comments were unfortunate. Having said that how can any observer look at the facts on the votes and blame the Democrats for the defeat of the bill?

paul

If you are going to comment, do so intelligently. The house republicans that rejected the bill said they did so because of Bush. We trying to use politics to fuel the flames of your views. Everyone in Washington is to blame - Republicans and Democrats alike.

How is it that the Democrats are to blame for the bailout defeat? Sixty percent of Democrats in the House voted in favor of the bailout; less than 30% of Republicans voted in favor of it.

Obama the terrorist? hmm..are these the new young neo cons , the little wolfowitzes..who wants to create and invent an enemy that doesn't exist? you are speaking about ties to terrorists? Isn't america paying alqaeda members to fight against the islam radicals in iraq as of this moment? so what can you say about this? Do not point fingers and invent fears in america anymore, we have a strong national security here in america and we are safe in here. keep in mind..that great leaders of our time had really bad enemies as friends. ok? Do some research about history of our dear america before posting Negativity about a person.

It's really upsetting that the Republicans would put their hurt feelings ahead of what's good for the Country. It doesn't matter what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said or didn't say, if they let words change their vote, it's worst then voting against it because they believe it's the wrong thing to do.

The Republicans are just big wimps running scared and they think this will help them stay in office. Little do they know that in five weeks it will still be a Republican economy and a Republican problem.

Gee, can we spell "swiftboat"? Could we just look at the votes pro and con on this item?

There were 205 in favor of the legislation and 228 against. Among Democrats, 140 voted in favor and 95 against. Among Republicans, 65 voted in favor and 133 against.

So, the big bad Democrats MADE the Republicans vote against it? That's pathetic. Grow up for God's sake.

More DEMOCRATS voted for this bill than republicans.
Surely republicans are to blame for this failure.

The Republicans are desperate and attacking anything and everything. Pathetic.

both side come out of this stinking of partisanship. what a bunch of clowns.

Interesting that its the Dems fault even though only 33% of Republicans voted Yes. McCain = Politics as usual.

Umm...it was the Republicans that rejected the bailout bill. AND, just to remind everyone---it was Republican policies and neglect that created the bloody mess. Sounds like a political stunt to me. Once again, the Republicans do what's best for them and NOT was best for the country (or in this case, the world--as we see banks beginning to fail all over Europe.) Thanks. I won't ever vote Republican again.

Yeah, right; 2/3 of Republicans voted AGAINST the bill; the Democrats had said repeatedly that this was to be a BIPARTISAN bill to avoid the Republicans using it as a club by saying "we had this bill shoved down our throats" to the voters.

And don't tell me Pelosi's speech hurt the Republicans' feelings so much they decided to NOT vote for Bush's Bailout Bill just to spite her!

Please; this is a bipartisan bill that failed because the voters didn't want it passed. Now the spin will begin...

At the end of the day, it was the Republican members of the House who did not vote for this bill. You can't blame partisan speeches by Pelosi or any of her Democrat colleagues for this failure. If you voted against the bill, you voted against the bill.

Also, Obama is not a terrorist, nor is he influenced by terrorists. It's poisonous rumors like that that make so many Americans lose faith in this country. Let's keep our arguments against Obama grounded in fact.

It boils down to a plan that the general public neither understands fully nor sees the need for. There's been an outpouring of oppositional phone calls to congressional offices over the weekend. With November elections around the corner, it's hard to drum up support for a bailout that could cost congressmen and women their political careers.

It has little to do with congressional support or Pelosi's comments. It's about November elections and the perception of what the bill is actually accomplishing.

from the associated press: "Ample no votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill"

um, that looks pretty bipartisan to me? in fact...looks like the GOP actually made up the larger portion of no's...

wait... The Republicansoverwhelmingly didn't support the bailout and McCain is blaming the democrats? I'd say the general house in general didn't want the bailout.

Of course McBush will play the blame game. What else is he to do??????

just look at the vote and decide who defeated the bill. if someone voted a certain way because they were upset about the speakers comments shame on them for putting anger above the good of country. sounds like something a 5 year old spoiled brat would do.

Um, excuse me? More than two-thirds of *Republicans* and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill.

There was broad, bipartisan, discomfort with this bill, and it was stronger with the Republicans than the Democrats. McCain is really grasping at straws.

"John McCain is a hypocrit...Politics ahead of country....hah.. He wants the presidency so bad he has and will do anything.........problem is he can't get away from the last 8 years."

The Republicans didn't vote for this bill because they were mad at Nancy Pelosi? Am I reading this right? I thought this was about protecting the American people. I guess the Republicans are more concerned about losing their seats in Congress than they are about protecting the American people.

Thank you Obama the Terrorist for throwing your diarrhea all over this page. It is clear though the McAlzhiemers headquarters is having a slow day after seeing the pathetic political stunt McLame pulled last week has backfired and his numbers are slipping with each passing day. Your a LOSER!!

Term limits now, too many favors owed to career politicians:
One 6 year term for senators
Three 2 year terms fro representatives
1 20 year tem for Supreme court

People that spend 50 -100 million dollars for re election have to owe !

People, you all need to learn economics. The bailout is a BAD thing for our economy. It's only good for traders and executives. If we bailout these companies, we are going to face some major inflation. You want your money to be worth less? My stake in the stock market isn't that high, so I could care less if it drops to the levels it should be at anyways. However, I will be really pissed if my money is all of a sudden worth 10-20% less it's value. The bailout is a bad idea, and I'm glad it did not pass.

The Republicans as usual twist the facts for their own nefarious purposes. Desparation is a sad thing, and as Obama pulls ahead in the polls, the slings and arrows will get worse and worse. But it will not work this time neocons.

How is it Pelosi, Obama, and Reid's fault for sinking your 401k etc...?
Maybe I'm not hearing this correctly but it seems that the reason why the deal was not signed was because Pelosi said some dirt on the Bush administration and the republicans were mad so they didn't sign? You should be mad at the republicans PUMA. Aren't they the reason we're here in the first place? Democrats want more regulation and republicans scream "de-regulation -- free market" constantly and this is where we're at. Another depression.

Frankly I find it sick that so many people are spouting stupid things on multiple sites that are quickly shown to be false. This country is bankrupt financially and morally. The funny thing is you spout these silly falsehoods for people who wouldn't give you the right time of day. This is definitely the dumbing down of America and politics of fear, not reason. I thought the Internet would help get people the information they need to make sound decisions, but it has been used to disseminate so much garbage that it has become useless. We will get what we deserve as a society. Soon.

Yes this makes a lot of sense. The democrats were partisan which consequently forced the house republicans to vote against the bailout. ROTFLMAO.

All you people in the small rural towns and union members. Eight years of a Rpublican president and majority Congress for six years has come to a head.
The spineless republicans are lfilled with lies. Your strong racist beliefs will be the destruction of our country. Sarah Crazy Palin should return to Alaske. There have been just as many abortions in the last eight years as before. You had a president and congress to change the law, did they lie to you again. No one will take your guns from you and yes I too cling to my religion, you must with eight years of Bush, McCain and the other thugs. Vote Obama

The repubs voted no on the bailout and now blame the Dems who approved it?
Does any repuke think this subtrafuge is gonna fly?

Even if Pelosi was "partisan," that's her job - no Repub seems to care if their own guys play politics.
The far right was opposed all along: Boehner only asked his allies to vote for the bill _IF_ their "consciences allowed" - pretty dog-gone weak support.
Now the free-mkt fanatics want to blame the Dems if there is any bad fallout from the bill not passing, while their allies on the rabid want to take credit for being against a big-govt bail-out and helping the bill fail! Incredible - typical - double standard...
And, we are forced to put up with more lies & scurrilous attacks. McCain had nothing to say during the Thursday W.H. meeting, and was wimpy during the Friday debate. To accuse Obama of that is pure (and typical) hypocrisy. To even allow someone to repeat the "O is a T" slur is beneath the Globe.

2/3 of democrats voted for the bill, 2/3 of repoublicans voted against. And still McCain says it's the democrats fault the bill didn't pass? He can't even do simple math. What a flat-out lying-sack. He puts party before country, pride before party, and getting elected before all else. I once had respect for the man, but the process has corrupted him completely, and now he deserves nothing but scorn.

So these Republicans told us that the passage of this bill was CRITICAL to the health of the economy... and then voted against it because Pelosi's speech hurt their delicate feelings? Please.

Many Republicans voted to sink the Bill, so don't blame this result on the Democrats. The Bill was flawed- no one is bailing me or my neighbors out of any financial mess in which we find ourselves so why should our tax dollars go to bailing out the highest paid CEO's and their companies? And about the poisoning plea by Pelosi- shame on those Republicans who aren't strong enough to stand by their own opinions if they can be so easily swayed, and kudos to Pelosi and others for defeating Bush's cronies' redemption. Too little too late for those who think they are untouchable by failure. MSB Reno, Nevada

"The measure needed 218 votes to pass. Democrats voted 141 to 94 in favor of the plan, while Republicans voted 65 to 133 against the plan. The finally tally was 206 votes for and 227 against."

Draw your own conclusions as to which party is to "blame" for this not passing.

Democrats: 141 Yea, 94 Nay
Republican: 66 Yea, 132 Nay

Now how does that make it the Demorcrat fault for defeating it?

#4 Comment - Don't you realize the Democrats got us into this mess by being in power in Washington the past 2 years. Once Obama is elected it will be even worse. The democrats wanted everyone in america to be in a home and now their actions and policies have made us tank!
I believe everyone should be in a home too, but you have to work for it, not expect the Government to give it to you.
Now the government is getting deeper into our financial system, just what the democrats want, a socialist country. How un-American!

Poor John McCain! Those Democrats are so . . . mean! Didn't they understand that all he wanted to do was to help! I think I could cry. . .

Frankly I find it sick that so many people are spouting stupid things on multiple sites that are quickly shown to be false. This country is bankrupt financially and morally. The funny thing is you spout these silly falsehoods for people who wouldn't give you the right time of day. This is definitely the dumbing down of America and politics of fear, not reason. I thought the Internet would help get people the information they need to make sound decisions, but it has been used to disseminate so much garbage that it has become useless. We will get what we deserve as a society. Soon.

More reasons why nobody likes you people (Pelosi)... and why your favorability is the worst in the history of our country. BTW, as President, I don't think Bush has ever had absolute power to approve budgets, enact laws, etc. Doesn't congress get involved in that a little here and there? Please don't lean on the disclaimer that the congress was originally republican dominated... I mean really, when do you empty suits accept any responsibility at all???

Why are we assuming that this bailout is a good idea? Do American's not realize that the debt is passed on to them?

It is a guarantee for higher taxes on top of already hard times. Remember, very few wealthy folk have been hurt by this - what is happening is that all the wealth is going into fewer and fewer hands making the rich even richer and centralising control over wealth.

'Blaming the democrats' is an issue of who's side your on - the rich or the majority. Ironically, more Republicans voted Nay.

Wow, the bloggers on this site need to educate themselves on a great many things. One, everyone has friends that do bad things (i.e. drink and drive, beat their families, gamble their savings away). Just because someone is associated with a bad person, does NOT mean that person is also bad. Two, both parties are at fault for playing politics. So Republicans, don't get your expensive panties in a bunch about Pelosi. She only did what you would have done in her shoes; play the blame game. And actually she is right. Republicans are to blame for the worst position the United States have been in since the Depression (and actually farther back than that). We have a lowsy, slowing economy. We have a huge deficit due to the terrible economic policies and unwinnable wars. We look like a bunch of punks to Russia. Our bark isn't bad and its still worse than our bite right now. People hate us abroad because... which actually breeds terrorism, not eradicates it. We can't take care of our poor in desperate times. Why? Because of red-neck, jesus-freaks and greedy, monopolistic pigs. Pay some taxes and help someone who is disadvantaged!

Mr. Hands Accross the Aisle...Blaming the Democrats? There are enough Republicans in the House to have passed the Bill. Both parties rejected it!!! In regards to Pelosi's "partisan speech"...Her speech was not being voted on, it was a piece of legislation. You can still vote yes on a bill even if you don't like the words of the Speaker of the House. That seems petty to me and looking for an excuse to vote no.

What!!! The Dems are at fault???

Let's see, the majority of the Democrats voted for the bill and the majority of the Republicans voted against. It's pretty perverted logic that puts the blame on the Democrats.

What, they were offended by Pelosi's speach? So the answer is to torpedo the economy in response? What kind of moronic juveniles are we dealing with here?

did this not come up during 2005?
who refused to deal this these bad regulations during 2005?
check it out!
we are becoming more and more of a welfare nation at the cost of
the taxpapers who pay their taxes.
the politicians will do anything to buy votes, to include selling out the nation.
both parties are at fault - do not kid yourself.

the last question - who can best defent this country. think about it before you vote!

The facts are 60% of Democrats voted for the bill, but 2/3 of Republicans put reelection ahead of their country and voted no. John McCain spoke to House Republicans only a few days ago. Whatever he said to them did not get the job done.

If Obama is a terrorist, then Bush is the anit-christ!!! You neo-con freaks!!!

I'm confused . . . who put politics in front of country? Wouldn't that be the party who voted against a bill because they didn't like a speech? Putting country first means doing what needs to be done instead of playing politics. Sticks and stones . . . remember that from the playground? The House republicans should have voiced their discontent with Speaker Pelosi's speech and then held their noses and voted for the measure.

All Nancy did was point out the facts. Republicans don't like facts.

Yup, everything is the Dems fault. They caused the problem, even though, the GOP has held the White House 28 of the last 40 years, including the last 8; nominated seven of the nine Supreme Court justices and held Congress for 12 of the last 14 years, including 6 of the last 8.
And it was their fault, that the GOP voted against opening up the credit flow, today.
Yup, Pelosi spoke, and they decided to change their vote for the bill, and let the economy tank instead.
The Party of * Personal Responsibility,* once again, takes no responibility, even for their own votes. And McCain, who blew up the bipartisan negotiations, by injecting himself into the negotiations... yup, it's the Dems fault.

It would seem more republicans voted against the "bush league" "bailout"
than did democrats! Where does McCain and his "troops" get the blame falls on Obama?
Guess if you urinate on the fire, like McCain, you try to blame the stink on someone else.......

John McCain failed to lead enough Republican Congressmen to vote in favor of the plan. Plain and simple that is the facts.

Two thirds of the Democrats voted to support a Bush initiated bill; two thirds of the Republicans voted against it. This is not complicated. McCain did not delliver.

The facts matter. Don't lose sight of the fact that the Republicans, even after Bush and their party leaders begged them, WOULD NOT put country first and instead voted AGAINST the rescue plan. Why? Well, some Republicans said it was because Nancy Pelosi hurt their feelings. Others said it was because they were putting "freedom over bread"?!? Others probably just refused to accept the disaster their party and their leadership created.

The Republican Party is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

INDU at -748 at 4:11pm

Now let's wait for the McCain campaign to employ that old Rove trick of accusing your opponents of your own greatest failing. In this case it's putting Party over Country and that's exactly what a majority of the House GOP has done.

Hey Republicans! Give us all a break. The facts matter and your spin is failing miserably to obscure them.

Now the drop is -777. Thanks GOP!

So, the Republicans are so reactive that they can't vote in the best interests of the county and it's citizens just because someone blames the Republicans for the mess we are in. What kind of children are we dealing with here. The Republicans are welcome to say whatever they want but it is inexcusable to vote to kill a bill like this to be vendictive because the speaker made some remarks. Them getting even by voting against the bill is more important than the financial impact on all of us?

Umm... 60% of Democrats voted for what was essentially the Republican President's plan. Whereas, 32.5% of Republicans voted for it. How is this a Democrat's fault? Seems too easy a cop out to me...

Sen. McCain has no responsibility to run his campaign according to your likes and dislikes. He and Sen. Obama DO have a responsibility to try and sure up the economy. That's their day job. Learn to distinguish between the two, Uncle Rico.

Puma, you should be ashamed of yourself. Before Calling on Peolosi to resign....Why Dont you ask Mr Bush to graciously Kick himself out of office. This is a Clear example that the President like John Mccain doesnt Understand the Economy. Republicans Preach Responsiblity, The President should responsibly RESIGN.

I for one am glad it did not pass. The bill was not crafted well, and was rushed. I think that congress needs to take its time and get this thing right, not just throw together some legislation and rubber stamp it. Good for those who voted 'No', now maybe some real debates and terms will be hammered out.

Of the House's 235 Democratic members, 140 voted in favor of the bailout, 95 against. Of 199 Republicans, only 65 voted "yea."

Only McCain could blame this on the Democrats!

Hey did anybody take a look at the breakdown of the "defeat"...132 Republicans and 93 Democrats.???? McCain can't count either. Let's start telling the "truth" McCain...or is it you can't read either???

Let me get this straight, Republicans are saying it's the Democrats' fault that so many Republicans voted against the emergency bail out necessitated by the Republican Bush Administration's disastrous policies?

The Republicans must think we're idiots. And I guess we'd have to be, to return any of them to office.

60% of democrats voted for the bill, 1/3 of republicans did. Now, who stopped it from being passed?

Republicans have way too damn much pride, and not enough common sense. Anyone with half a brain knows we need to pass the damn bill or our economy is going to tank even more than it is.

It's not about filling the pockets of fatcats, it's about allowing farmers to buy seed for next year. It's about allowing your brother to get a mortgage for a house. It's about allowing your kids to get loans for college. It's about allowing you to get a loan to buy a new car.

Without this bill, you won't get any of that. No more new small businesses. No houses being sold AT ALL. No new cars. Hell, no old cars either (except for those who can pay in cash). No more kids in college.

This is not the US giving wall street money. The US will be *buying assets* at a tiny fraction of their price just a year ago, and eventually selling them off again at a profit. It is not a handout.

BOTH Obama AND McCain support the plan. Bush supports the plan. The heads of both parties support the plan. The only people who don't are moron citizens without a clue, and congressmen who are worried about re-election.

Hey did anybody take a look at the breakdown of the "defeat"...132 Republicans and 93 Democrats.???? McCain can't count either. Let's start telling the "truth" McCain...or is it you can't read either???

The only person going for political gain in this mess is in fact John McCain! From his drama queen trip to Washington (he accomplished nothing) to this latest attack, it's all for political gains.

Oh and you have to laugh at the House Republicans! What a bunch of babies that can't handle some tough talk. Yeah, you know, when asked for 700 Billion Dollars, I throw a tantrum, too. Now they're taking their ball and going home.. bunch of babies.

Hey did anybody take a look at the breakdown of the "defeat"...132 Republicans and 93 Democrats.???? McCain can't count either. Let's start telling the "truth" McCain...or is it you can't read either???

If that comment by the McCain - Palin camp weren't so outright insulting to all voters, I'd almost be inclined to laugh about it. Just how stupid do those folks think we are?

John McCain tried to use this enormous, acute economical crisis for his own political gains. His appearance in Washington was not helpful. Nevertheless, even today he was found boasting about how he was the one who "solved" the crisis.

Now, he falsely accuses the Democrats, even Sen. Obama personally, to be to blame for the failure. Just note: It was the Republicans who ultimately voted against the bailout deal! Seriously, I'm disgusted by them right now.

Let's see , Putnam says:

"The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side."

Wow! What a group of responsible adults!

Republicans who were *for* the bill because it was the right to do for the country and would help the country turned it down because Pelosi said something partisan?

And McCain was the guy who got these people to come together in the interest of the country?

I suppose McCain will continue his suspension of his campaign.

LOL.

Hmm...

"The measure, which is designed to get battered U.S. credit markets working normally again, needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure."

John McCain was busted after he suspended his campaign sitting with advisors in fanciest DC restaurant, making campaign phone calls. He almost canceled a part of our political process, the debate... and refuses to remove the duct tape from sarah palin's mouth or the media blackout.

Pelosi obviously does not have full democratic support either, as THERE ARE ENOUGH DEMOCRATIC VOTES IN CONGRESS TO PASS THIS WITHOUT THE REPUBLICANS! THEY DO NOT WANT IT TO PASS UNLESS THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS NAMES ON IT SO THEY CAN PASS THE BLAME OFF AS IT BEING BI-PARTISAN IF IT FAILS!!!

Pointing the finger again, that's how major problems are solved. Keep up the good work.

WTF? The Republican coward congressmen couldn't follow the leadership of their President and administration and are now blaming the Democrats for hurting their feelings? Are we really going to let them push that story? The facts show that more Democrats voted for the President's plan than Republicans. Stop blaming other people!!!!

Like many, I've followed the details.
McCain and the first three commentors here are incredibly dishonest.
Most of us hope and pray that soon these people's stupid poison won't matter.

The Republicans are for the business man and the Democrats are for the working man. If you can get that load in a spreader, you can fertilize America's crops for the next eight years.

As much as I didn't like this bill from the beginning, I don't see how people can blame the Dems for its failure. Didn't you see the vote? The Dems were the ones voting for it and it was the GOP voting against it. If a mere speech by Pelosi derailed the vote then that is the GOP's problem for lack of committment, not the Dems.

I love how it's not mentioned here that the less than 1/3 of REPUBLICANS voted for the bill, and 60% of democrats DID vote for it, meaning that the rejection of the bill is because of the REPUBLICANS! even if Pelosi did insult republicans they shouldn't have let that stop them from making a decision about the future of the citizens of the united states. putting personal grudges ahead of the welfare of our country? not OK.
and they have the nerve to say it's Obama's fault? don't make me laugh! how can you possibly blame him when the numbers show that republicans are responsible for the rejection of the bill.

As we should all be used to by now, the fervent supporters of the Republican party and it's policies who were reading this article take the time to post hundreds of words of attack and slander, without any substantiation (provide references for quotes when you make them, i.e. a source, a date and attribution). These attackers, these slanderers are the same persons who provide no tangible solutions or credible statements of responsibility as to why this crisis has come about. No, it is far easier to throw money (that we'll be borrowing from China and the EU, at interest) at the problem, and when anyone makes a question as to whether the policy is sound, accuse, insinuate, and attack. If you have no message, no solution, and nobody willing to stand up and take the blame, it is so much easier to accuse others.

Blaming Pelosi and the Democrats is beyond absurd. It's obvious that the failings of the current administration that also controlled Congress for 6 of the 8 years is spectacular in it's scope of incompetence.
How idiotic is it to say because Nancy Pelosi stated the obvious in brief remarks about this crisis that that made it so the House Republicans put POLITICS over country. Really?
Pelosi has been working non-stop to get a bill passed URGENTLT requested by the President and the Treasury to prevent all out disaster of the catastrophic meltdown on the underpinnings of our economic system.
This is a stop-gap measure, then the literal accountability by taxpayers needs to happen.
Many have been asleep at the wheel.

Let's see , Putnam says:

"The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side."

Wow! What a group of responsible adults!

Republicans who were *for* the bill because it was the right to do for the country and would help the country turned it down because Pelosi said something partisan?

And McCain was the guy who got these people to come together in the interest of the country?

I suppose McCain will continue his suspension of his campaign.

LOL.

Now the Republicans who DEFEATED this bill can lay claim to being the party of the Second Great Depression.

We won't see Republicans in charge of this country for the next three decades, which is fine by me. The party is host to the most corrupt, mean-spiritied and greedy Americans this nation has ever seen in its history.

Now you miserable creeps won't even be able to get jobs on Wall Street !!

The only solution is to pass the Home Owners and Bank Protection Act
reinstate the Class Seagul legislation and follow the three step plan to
survival envisioned by Lynden laRouche. Check out larouchepac.com and
listen to Mr laRouche on October 1st. Praise the Lord everybody.

Last I checked the majority of ppl who voted against this were REPUBLICANS. So Mccain can just point his finger back to himself and not getting the house Repubs together enough to back this bill. The fact of the matter is : it's an election year. All these rep's wanna get re-elected and none of them want to be held accountable for voting this bill to be passed in case it sinks us all. Everyone on Wall Street is crying that this NEEDS to happen. BOTH parties get kickbacks from the ppl on Wallstreet BUT Wallstreet dosen't vote them in. Their money might, but their political choices is what gets ppl to vote for them one way or another and until the American public are convinced this is necessary...this is going to keep happening. Ultimately the problem is NO ONE FREAKING knows what the hell to do and which plan will hurt the American public more. Will credit being frozen for an undeterminate period of time until banks buy these questionable assets be the best move? Or the gov't stepping in to give them some sort of value and resale them at a higher price the better choice to get the assets moving out of their currently un-valuable situation?

NO ONE FREAKING KNOWS. NO ONE IS RIGHT AND NO ONE IS WRONG. This isn't a partisan issue. It's a "Uh-oh we missed this one...now what the hell do we do?" issue right smack dab in the middle of election season.

Frankly I find it sick that so many people are spouting stupid things on multiple sites that are quickly shown to be false. This country is bankrupt financially and morally. The funny thing is you spout these silly falsehoods for people who wouldn't give you the right time of day. This is definitely the dumbing down of America and politics of fear, not reason. I thought the Internet would help get people the information they need to make sound decisions, but it has been used to disseminate so much garbage that it has become useless. We will get what we deserve as a society. Soon.

Wait a second.... because Nancy Pelosi called Bush out for being an economic moron, Republicans voted NO on bill?????? ARE you KIDDING ME? GROW UP.... I thought the GOP was supposed to be tough. Suck it up guys. Don't punish the country because someone hurt your feelings. Total cowards. The GOP is turning the clock backwards and ruining this country.

So the Republicants chose to sink the economy of the greatest country on earth, because of "partisan rhetoric"? So, their feelings were hurt, and they did this? They should be hung for treason.

60% of Democrats voted for this bill and only 33% of Republicans did.

Are you saying that Republicans are so sensitive and shallow that the tone of a SPEECH would keep them from voting for something that was good for the country?

Finally I hope McCain will take a stand and say how the Democrats started this mess and now they are trying to cover it up. I hope he sends a strong message to Obama that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd need to resign and take Pelosi and Reed with you. All of you had fair warning that there was fraud back over four years ago with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was your duty to investigate and warn the American people. I hope you all go to jail for this.

I listened to Pelosi attack Republican members' patriotism on Friday (by the way, a violation of House Rules that qualified her for displinary action) and then watched her press conference on Sunday where, once again, partisanship took over and she had to snipe at the Administration and the GOP while conveniently ignoring the culpability of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and other Dems who made (and took) millions of dollars from Fannie and Freddie while blocking reform legislation filed by Sen. McCain back in 2005 . Pelosi (whose eyes bother me, is she always stressed out or is that bad plastic surgery?)
does not have the statemanship to serve as Speaker of the House. Can you
imagine LBJ, Sam Rayburn or even Tip O'Neil failing to deliver 93 Democratic votes during a crisis? The fact is that pelosi is mentally unstable and emotionally unfit to lead. Yes, this problem is her fault.

60% of house democrats voted for the bill. 75% of house republicans voted AGAINST it. The bill died entirely because of House Republicans. How exactly are the democrats to blame then?

John McCain is a lying sack, who has done NOTHING for the economy. It the fault of the agenda that he's been pushing for years that we've fallen this far.

The bottomline is 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats vote against: According to my math that means the Republicans defeated the Bill.

To posting Obama the Terrorist

What if if anything did your post have to do with the failed vote in the House of Representatives today? Please stick to the debate and keep your who-knows-who and who went to school where etc to forums where it belongs

Wow, this mess of historical proportions and the failed vote today are Obama's and the Democrates fault?

MY TRUTH: We might have avoided this were some regulation applied to Wallstreet's new-fangled investments tools 7 years ago. Accountability, (what's that?), i.e., REGULATION is essential!

Gosh, GOP, all anyone wants is oversight and appropriate use of the bailout money, (money we don't have), and somehow the failed vote today was the fault of the Democrats(?). McCain becomes more of a joke with each day!

Thanks to Bush/Chaney & Sen. McCain who's work brought us to this point!

Unbelieable!

Amen Uncle Rico!

Thanks to the congress and the crap!!! what happened to take care of the american public! We get screwed and they just sit back and laugh - I think we should cut their pay and they can pay off the 700 billion!
We need to take back our country - AND DO IT NOW!!

Sort of like when Obama picked Biden to have someone on the ticket that can claim any kind of experience. Obama showed that he is truly leading the Democrats, too bad he chose the wrong direction.

Life lived on credit is borrowed time, at best. When will people be encouraged to save up and pay cash for the things they want? Not until we cut the supply of paper that the government is allowed to purchase and run through the printing presses to print "money" as they now view it. Imagine trying to buy a horse from George Washington and then handing him numerous pieces of paper with his picture on them. What do you think he would tell youto do with those pieces of paper?

Quote from the AP: "Ample no votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill." So how is this the fault of the Democrats???

60% of Democrats voted for this bill and only 33% of Republicans did.

Are you saying that Republicans are so sensitive and shallow that the tone of a SPEECH would keep them from voting for something that was good for the country?

Here is how the vote went:
Democratic
140 yea
95 nay
Republican
65 yea
133 nay
Looks to me like the repubs voted it down, not the dems....

205 228

McCain, why don't you stop pointing the fingers and get more than 20 of your fellow republicans to vote for the bill. The old man can't even convince his own party. Stop bickering and try to be a leader for the sake of the country!

I am appalled to hear that lawmakers voted against this bill because their pride was hurt by a speech. Even assuming Pelosi's speech was completely inappropriate, that should not have factored into the merits of the bill. Somehow, the term "country first" was lost along the way to getting re-elected.

To the author of ...."The truth is spreading..."

You are a complete moron; it must scare you to think that Obama will be President...keep on preaching about hatred and bigotry - you have found your forte.....

Maybe if McCain hadn't been "phoning it in" for the past year we wouldn't be in this mess. I'm being affected by all of this in a major way. As someone with literally everything at stake I'd much rather hear their plans for my future (through debates and campaigning), my kids' future, than hanging out in Washington pretending to be the sole lifesavers of our economy.
McCain knows he's sunk, that's why he wanted to "suspend" his campaign. You can't lose if you don't play.

Once again Mr. Mouth shoots his off without regard to facts. 133 Republicans joined 95 Democrats in opposition to the bill. So Obama was supposed to get 133 HOUSE Republicans to back this deal? Clearly, this is GWB leadership failure. Far be it from McBlame to miss an opportunity to play the blame game.

"Grandstanding" is a luxury of being the Majority Leader. If this bill was truely important to the republicans, they would not have been so sensitive to Pelosi's remarks.

I am glad it didn't pass there take that.Where is the Justice system at now ,where is it.

This is for the person above, "Obama the Terrorist". You sound like the product of Karl Rove,Bush and McCain combined! The fear tactics dont work no more. Haters! Do you really expect people to believe your karl Rove tactics? Here is a question for you, If Obama is linked to the terrorist then where are the FBI? Isnt that suppose to Bush's strongest turf ? Are telling us that Bush and McCain are not doing their job of hunting the terrorists? As I recall McCain said he would follow Osama Bin laden to the gates of hell, and if Obama is linked to the terrorists then why is Goverment allowing him to run for Presidency? Try again!!!

So - some republicans got their feelings hurt because of a "partisan statement" and they decide to vote against a bill and will be "SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and Life's Savings in the Stock Market?" Does that seem like a very sound reason on which to base a decision about the financial future of OUR country?

wonder hows come pelosi couldnt get all her side on board? huh? seems like she is charlene in charge. and large right? and she blames the reps??? isnt that kind of like blaming the rape victim, cause they wore a prevocative dress? cant pelosi pass this by herself if she has her side in order? yep. and of course the MSM wont even report that. pelosi partisan speach will be ignored and the reps will be postured as partisan. the good news is: we aint that dumb. collectively. we just arent as dumb as they think we are. the other good news from this election, this whole process: the MSM are dead. complete frauds. totally biased. and not only that, incompetent. the one good thing out of all this.

I don't get it... did the Republicans vote against the bill or against Nancy Pelosi?

You can't possibly stand up and vote "no" just because of a speech. Focus on the legislation on the floor and debate that clearly before going into a vote where you change your mind because of a few remarks that "offended" you.

Btw, my guess on the polls is that people were against the original 3 page plan and wanted oversight, stock ownership and regulation of executive salaries of companies accepting the help. All of these were addressed in this bill, so what's the problem now?

This entire crisis is the result of trickle down economics started under Reagan. It only profited the extremely wealthy at the expense of the rest of the population. The middle class has increased productivity for the past 15 years, yet their share of the wealth has been continually eroded by the greed of the current philosophy of conservative baron robbers under Bush and his criminal cronies.
How dare you blame Democrats. They are also partially to blame, but they have always cared more for the common good and not for the Darwinian greed and concentration of wealth that has been the mantra of the Republican party. We need to hang them in the public square.

GET YOUR FACTS Mr. McCain:
"When the final vote was announced, the measure went down to defeat, with 132 Republicans and 94 Democrats rejecting appeals from their party leadership to support the legislation. "

132 REPUBLICANS REJECTED THE BILL.....

Are we supposed to believe that enough Republicans were ready to approve the bill until Pelosi said mean things about the economic policies of the last 8 years?? These Republicans really believed the bailout is the right thing to do for the country, but because Pelosi's words hurt their feelings, they voted against the bill?? Are you kidding me? If these Republicans were, in fact, prepared to support the bill, but changed their mind because of what she said, these are some pretty weak leaders.

It's ridiculous to blame Pelosi for the bill not passing.

All this bill is, is a band aide. The only way to fix this economy is to pass a $700 billion bill that will encourage jobs, including manufacturing jobs, here in the United States. Rebuild the country’s infrastructure and put people to work so they can pay the debts. The reason the economy is in a shambles is because people are not working, we are not exporting and our bridges and roads are in disrepair.

Put $700 billion toward putting people to work!

If the Republicans put "Country First", they should not have worried about a partisan speech by Pelosi and voted for the bailout plan. 133 Republicans voted against the plan as compared to 95 Democrats. Now the fun begins. Democrats and Republicans are going to tear each other apart. The "poor guy" was in trouble with or without the bailout.

Personally, I do not think that the playboys of the Wall Street should be bailed out at taxpayer's expenses. The "poor guy", like me, who suffers one way or the other, should not be made an scapegoat.

Where is the man? He sends Douglas-Blackberry Eakin out to whine for him?
And to actually say admit that petulence is the reason? That's the message?
They said mean things to our wild-eyed brethren and you know nobody can control them.
Does anybody remember what Gingrich whining about seating on the plane got them? And this isn't just shutting down the government, this is taking money out of the pockets of retired people. A month before the election!
Down the rabbit hole.

Why do I smell partisan Republican politics here? This bill has been worked on for more than a week now and was supposedly headed for a vote where it would pass by a majority vote. Than today 60% of the Dems vote yay and 60% of the Repubs vote nay. The Republican leadership now acts surprised by how their people voted and blames the speaker of house for hurting their feelings. WTF!
I've watched this process closely and things seem to be moving forward then something happens suddenly the Republicans jump out of the bushes crying bad bill, bad bill. In between incidents the Repubs have been virtually invisible and allowing bills to move forward to the point of being voted on.
Just watch the Republican leaders and their post vote comments at their surprise at how their own people ended up voting today. Please remember that this bill originated from the Republican side(Bush, Paulson,Cox, Bernake,etc.) and was supposedly being fashioned into a compromise bill with help from both sides and at the moment of truth only 30% of the Republicans voted yay. This was no planned attempt to allow for a market correction rather politics as usual!

In case you don't know two-thirds (67%) of republicans voted against the bill vs. nearly 40% of democrats who voted against it. People should not fool themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!

So let me get this straight, the Republicans who voted against the bill did so because their feelings were hurt.

Who cares what Pelosi or anyone else said or did not say.

The only thing that matters is whether or not they agreed with the legislation.

The Democrats were on board, the Republicans were not.

What did McCain do to change that?

Maybe if the GOP would have put country before pride...the deal would have passed.

Ayes
Democratic : 140
Republican : 65
Total: 205

Noes
Democratic: 95
Republican: 133
Total: 228

I feel like it's not a valid point to say, "We voted against this, which we think we need, because we think the democrats are being offensive." What reasons could there be for Wall Street collapsing? 1) Bush's economic policies, in which case the point is valid. 2) Wall Street got out of control, probably because there was little to no oversight, which was a result of... Bush's economic policies, in which case the point is valid. 3) People lost faith in the government and big business, because it seemed like they were taking more and more without listening to what the people of the United States of America were saying, especially in the case of windfall oil profits and two unending wars abroad... Bush's policies.

And to "Obama the Terrorrist": do you think that the federal government taking over the business of banking for large portions of the United States population is an example of capitalism at work? I'm fairly certain the federalization of such a thing as this would be considered "communism" to most people who've studied a history textbook and/or a dictionary.

The real question is--
What percentage of Democrats in the House voted yes?
What percentage of Republicans in the House voted yes?
Everything else is posturing

Obviously, house republicans are incapable of rising above partisan politics. They as much said they voted their emotions. They didn't like what Pelosi had to say and placed their personal feelings above national security. House republicans will pay for the stock market crash.

PUMA: "Thank you Pelosi, Obama and Reid for SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and Life's Savings in the Stock Market."

Are you serious?!?!

Your shit is gone because of the recklessness of the past 8 years. Every one of those greedy Wall St. bastards were making money hand over fist with their crap mortgage bets. Now that your screwed, don't ask for my tax money to help!!!

McCain's campaign was never suspended.
I even had them deliver a sign that day , for which they wanted a donation.

Just like Devil Patrick with regard to police details,torpedoed the Municipal Police Unions who supported his election bid for Governor of Massachusetts, so did the Republicans by playing politics by not supporting W and the democrats to distance themselves, in re-writing the bailout to protect their rich friends. Hell, why should John McCain care, he and his wife own seven houses any way and of course will benefit from a cut in the capital gains tax. After all, you have to have money in order to benefit from that.

McCain exploits any and every situation for his own good. His "blame the Democrats" line is standard Bush playbook. The REPUBLICANS are the ones who voted against it - NOT THE DEMOCRATS!! And their excuse "Nancy Pelosi was mean to us." The truth is this: Republicans invented mean. Republicans perpetrate lies. They can't handle nor convey the truth.

Mr. McCain, stop feigning outrage for the sake of saving your campaign and just please go away...we'll do fine without you. Truly.

wonder hows come pelosi couldnt get all her side on board? huh? seems like she is charlene in charge. and large right? and she blames the reps??? isnt that kind of like blaming the rape victim, cause they wore a prevocative dress? cant pelosi pass this by herself if she has her side in order? yep. and of course the MSM wont even report that. pelosi partisan speach will be ignored and the reps will be postured as partisan. the good news is: we aint that dumb. collectively. we just arent as dumb as they think we are. the other good news from this election, this whole process: the MSM are dead. complete frauds. totally biased. and not only that, incompetent. the one good thing out of all this.

Let's see, this was a bill authored by the Republican president, supported by 60% of House Democrates, and defeated because 67% of House Republicans voted against the bill. And it's somehow Obama's fault!!??!! Holy crap, how could McCain have the nerve to even through this nonesense out there? Desperation is unbecoming - he's done for.

Maybe if the GOP would have put country before pride...the deal would have passed.

Ayes
Democratic : 140
Republican : 65
Total: 205

Noes
Democratic: 95
Republican: 133
Total: 228

133 Republicans and 95 Democrats voting no (Seems the Republicans were the majority that voted NO!) And, I am not an Obama supporter. I just prefer facts.

All me to make a worthwhile non-partisian suggestion.

VOTE EVERY INCUMBENT OUT AND START FRESH. THEY ARE ALL TO BLAME. THEIR JOB IS TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM HAVE FAILED.

When you are blaming Democrats or Republicans, you are being to narrow-minded. We better fix what makes them give-in to special interests. This would include:

1. 100% Publicly Funded Elections
2. Hard Spending Caps on All Elected Positions.
3. No More Than 2 Terms for Any Position
4. Make the House 6 yrs like the Senate. It is absurb that they run every 2 years.
5. Number of Days they must spend in Washington requirement.

I can't believe the dem's let Nancy Pelosi out in public. She's a joke, an imbecile, and a disgrace to the office she holds. Shame on her and her partisan buddies for spending more time pointing fingers and placing blame than solving the problem.

And you dems, you can stick it with your stinking old worn out rhetoric about how the Republicans are for the rich while the dems are for the poor, theworking class and the children. It is BS and you know it. Why don't you quit being a lemming and actually learn something instead of just reguritating the party line.

McCain just might be the biggest hypocrite we've ever seen in American politics. Let's talk about suspending the crisis to bail out your campaign John... or the Keating Five... or taking $ from Freddie Mac as late as last month... or your lobbyist campaign staff.... or your ludicrous VP. We're not buying your prehistoric bluster... your "preconditions" to even talk to people... or you outmoded, spiteful tactics.

"We MUST continue to get the word out there about Obama and his ties to terrorists like William Ayers"

Regrettably, this means nothing to the type of supporters Obama had.

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The biggest terrorist are those on Wall Street that got us into this mess by deregulating, namely, George Bush and McCain who supported his policies 90% of the time.

Neocons who blog always look like fools, conspiracy theorists and fanatics. Not that all liberals are rational either, but you neocons are definitely a breed apart. Thanks for reinforcing why I won't vote for your guy!!

Most Democrats voted for the bill. Republicans don't vote for the bill and then they blame Democrats for them not failing. I'm sorry they got their feeling hurt by Pelosi, but if they can't put the Nation's future ahead of something like that, then I don't want them in Congress.

puma you are so lost its not funny. and Pelosi your are a frickken idiot i have nither heard nor seen anything good come out of your ass opps i mean face yet please leave are country alone.

McCain/Palin 08

never vote for a terrorist

Look at this little bit of DATA (ie, actual facts rather than creative prose) and decide who is responsible for the bailout's failure to be passed:

Democrats Yes 140 No 95
Republicans Yes 65 No 133
Total Yes 205 No 228

Wow. The repub's in the house have been yammering all week and weekend about how they will torpedo this bill unless all their conditions were met. And now that they have done the deed, it is someone else's fault. Simply amazing. This is not to say Pelosi's speech was not inflammatory, but still, this goes to show that these "country first" repub's, again, don't really mean what they say, otherwise, it would not have mattered one iota what anyone said in a speech, they would have voted for the good of the country. But instead it comes back to biz as normal.

Nice. So 2/3 of the republicans in congress voted against the bill and now McPain blames the democrats.

I distinctly remember hearing on several news stations that it was the Republicans in Congress that were strongly opposed to the bailout, but now McCain is blaming this on Obama and his congressional allies. Unbelievable!

So I suppose John McCain's grandstanding and injecting presidential politics into sensitive negotiations in order take the news off his campaign manager's mortgage giant connections was putting the country first? Lets face it, John McCain's poll numbers are sinking and he and his campaign are desperate to take distract our attention. So now they are playing the partisan blame game, which, in and of itself, is self serving and ultimately destructive.

The Republicans voted "no" 2 to 1 over the Democrats. This is the Republican's fault. PERIOD. McCain is full of shit.

All me to make a worthwhile non-partisian suggestion.

VOTE EVERY INCUMBENT OUT AND START FRESH. THEY ARE ALL TO BLAME. THEIR JOB IS TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM HAVE FAILED.

When you are blaming Democrats or Republicans, you are being to narrow-minded. We better fix what makes them give-in to special interests. This would include:

1. 100% Publicly Funded Elections
2. Hard Spending Caps on All Elected Positions.
3. No More Than 2 Terms for Any Position
4. Make the House 6 yrs like the Senate. It is absurb that they run every 2 years.
5. Number of Days they must spend in Washington requirement.

Wait a minute... So the vote failed because Nancy Pelosi made partisan remarks which caused the Republicans to vote no...?!?! Did she hurt their feelings? I'm no fan of Pelosi, but come on....

The Republicans who voted no for the bail out know the situation. They're blaming Pelosi and the Democrats for playing politics with last minute partisanship, which is probably a fair assessment. But to actively decide that the best way to get back at her was to vote the bill down goes WAY beyond that. Instead of just political posturing and nasty speeches, the Republicans ACTIVELY pursued a course of action that harmed the American people and now have the nerve to point a finger acorss the aisle and cast blame because, essentially, Pelosi said something mean to them. I thought this bill was being voted on by Congress, not a bunch of teenagers in the schoolyard.

I'm disgusted with both side, but more so with the Republicans, because THEY CAST THE VOTES. Nobody held them down and made them vote no.

All she said is the chickens are coming home to roost and the chickens freaked out at the truth and then did what chickens always do- run away.

Don't be "hatin" Palin. It was a cool move! Of coarse John pick her for VP to get votes!!! Duhh Look at the your VP! He is summin up the old school demmies for you!

You all are missing the point! Today never needed to happen. This is Bush's fault. And I don't mean the financial crisis either (only morons blame this on democrats and republicans). I mean the tact in which this Bill was presented. From the outset BUSH tried to shove this Bill down people's throat and warned of "immediate ecomomic crisis" if this bill wasn't passed immediately. Another Bush "my way or the highway" directive. This was a purely a political move and another example of why he is the worst President of our lifetime. And for the record, I "republican" minded when it comes to economic policy.

This is pathetic on the part of the republicans and the democrats who voted against the bill. Who cares what Pelosi said. This was not about feelings, this was about saving the economic status of our country and the world. I am sickened by this. John McCain said, right before the vote failed, that he was integral part to its being passed. Is this similar to the "economy is fundamentally sound" comment. Shame on congress for for putting their own political careers before the needs of the american people. I think we need to stop blaming so and so and start working for a better solution or pass the one that was available. Also Obama is NOT a terrorist. Use your brains people. With all the media don't you think we would know by now, plus Al-quaida would have claimed him by now

I am confused, he is blaming the Dems..... Over 2/3s of the republicans voted against the Bill. MCcain must be old, he cant even do his math correct. Around 40 percent of dems voted against, but over 2/3's of republcans did also. So who is at fault??? I guess the republicans got their feelings hurt by Pelosi when she told them they screwed up... Big deal get over it.

Fellow Americans,

You are all falling for the classic bait and switch. The old flip-flop. First, McCain says he's against a bailout, and then when it doesn't pass he blames it on Obama? Are you all really this foolish? I mean, this bailout and its consequences will affect Dems and Republicans alike, and you all just want to back McCain because he blames Obama? Make up your mind. If McCain has been in the Senate for over 20 years, which is the angle he takes to say Obama has no experience, then he is responsible, directly, for the lack in oversight of our financial institutions by our govt. Obama wasn't even there. How can he be the one to blame for how this happened in the first place?

My opinion, if McCain and Palin win, and I don't see how a person with three brain cells could possibly think this woman would be a good number 2, then you guys get what you want. No more jobs because they'll continue to be shipped away. No affordable healthcare because you won't have a way to pay for it and neither will your employer. This election is SO beyond conservatives vs. liberals. What does it matter if you're pro-life or pro-choice if you can't feed your family? what does it matter if gays get married if there is no longer any way for ANY married person, gay or otherwise, to make a decent living in this country?

Don't fall for the hype. Don't sit back and watch our country crumble because you get distracted by things like Palin being a woman, or Obama being black. Look at where these two stand. Look at their records. For the love of god, we are all accountable for our children, and I'm embarrassed for them already.

And, one final note: I find it terribly saddening that the very people who whole-heartedly defend the current administration and support McCain are the very people who are getting ignored and who are losing their livelihood because of the Republican party (as it is). Are we all really that blind? Look at the economic status of "Red" states vs Blue. The die-hard republicans are all living in the post-industrial states floundering to find some kind of footing an an economy that relied on the very industries that have been imported to foreign countries for pennies on the dollar. How can you not see that your mortal enemies, the very people who have stripped you of your livelihood, are the same ones you so fanatically support just because they love Jesus and hate immigrants? This election isn't about Jesus or Immigrants. It's not about gays or abortions. It's about the United Stated of America teetering on the brink of utter collapse.

God help us all if we don't all wake up and see this soon.

Aaron

Vote YES: 65 Elephants, 140 Donkeys
Vote NO: 133 Elephants, 95 Donkeys

How can McCain blame the Democrats? Either way the Democrats were screwed on this one. Vote for it and Republicans say Democrats are out of control in their spending (even though I have yet to see anything "conservative" in Bush's budgets). Vote against it and Republicans say Democrats don't put country first.
I'm glad this "bailout" didn't pass. $700 Billion!? The fact is that this bailout has much more of an impact on the Wall Street execs than your average Joe. Let them suffer so they don't make the same stupid mistakes again.

Personal views ahead of country... why the attack on the administration at a time when you "supposedly" wanted this thing passed. Pelosi didn't want it passed. She is a socialist who wasn't happy with the limits to government control that this bill provided, so she torpedoed it to use it as a political hockey puck. This time, it will BACKFIRE on her and the rest of her socialist friends.

Type your comment here...

Oh please commenters. We Americans watched this unfold.
McCain went back to help. AND he did.
Obama said he'd phone. Not until the PRESIDENT asked him to come
back did he waddle back with his tail between his legs, then tried to
tell the public through HIS media that -- IT was alllllll his idea.
Yeah, right.

How dumb does he think we are?

Woa! Hold on there all you people posting comments. First off, I am a republican, have been for a long time as I'm pro-life. But lets call a spade a spade here. it was by and large the republicans that voted this bill down. I don't care what the annoying wench Pelosi had to say. The republicans by a more than 2 to 1 ratio voted this down. Whereas, roughly the opposite, 2 to 1 democrats voted for it.
The final vote was 228 against and 205 for. It is not the democrats fault. It is those free market republicans that are playing russian roulette with the economy.
It's amazing, that the democrats would risk their necks to fix Bushes Mistakes, but his own party won't vote for his bill.
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Uh... 133 Republicans voted AGAINST the bill. 95 Democrats against. Just how is it that Democrats are at fault? Shut up, you old bag.

These Dems kill me! This whole subprime fiasco is a direct result of what Jimmy Carter started and Clinton enforced, lending to people who can't afford it. The Bush Administration even attempted to take action to curtail the damage but was blocked by the Democrats.

The Democrats really depend on lazy, believe anything you tell them to drones! This whole issue is part of a calculated strategy to blame Republicans and look good to ignorant people on the ballot!

What a shame that in this day and time people would allow these kinds of lies to lead them when the truth is there for all to find. There was a video that explained all this mess but again the Democrats have acted to hide the truth in there never ending shale game.

Republican Scum (with the help of spineless democrats) created this situation with deregulation, then the more extreme lead attacks against the (admittedly very flawed) bailout plan and somehow its someone elses fault. Its always everyone elses fault when you're Republican

"Among Democrats, 140 voted yes and 95 no. Among Republicans, 65 voted yes and 133 voted no."

Umm, and it was the DEMs who shot it down? Methinks McPain got an F in math.

60% of Democrats voted for the bill and only 33% of the GOP voted against it, and it's the Democrats' fault that it failed? Because they had their widdle feelings hurt? Grow up and take responsibility for your actions, Republicans. What a joke of a party.

How did the Democrats ruin this when 60% of the Dems voted FOR the bill and 70% of the Republicans voted AGAINST the bill???

This is a classic story of the McCain campaign trying to lie their way out of a hole - just like Sarah Palin!

OK, so the bill failed not because majority of republicans voted nay, but because Pelosi said something that upset their sensitive souls?
Got it.

Hey Puma.

Dont blame Pelosi, The democrats delivers %60 percent of their parties vote. The republicans only %30. The republicans want it passed (to aid their 401Ks) but then plan to use it against them at the polls (bill is not popular on main street) to regain the house. Democrats want it passed with half the votes coming from both parties so it cant be used at the polls by either party. I watched C-span during the debate before the vote and both parties had some shots. Its not about the comments its about the vote.

if you really believe that the democrats are trying to "protect the little guy" i pity you.

Come off it. By far more Republicans voted against it than Democrats. If the Republicans voted against it because they were ticked at Pelosi, then they deserve to be *fired*. They aren't there to have a good time, they are there to do the right thing for their constituents and for the country. If their feelings are more important than doing the right thing, then they need to leave, the sooner the better.

McCain has Failed America !

Does this statement by John McCain help the country? Isn't he putting Politics ahead of country? How can he point a finger at the party that voted 2/3 for the bill? Take a look in the mirror John!

Are you guys high on something?!!

It was republican minority who overwhelmenly failed to support bailout bill.
Are delusional blaming on democrats only?
It was failure of both republicans and democrats to out politics/and their butts aside and coutrt first

So let me be sure I understand what happened here. After a week of bipartisan negotiation the house had a bill that would pass but because Nancy Pelosi hurt some feelings it collapsed. Shame on you Nancy Pelosi for hurting the itty bitty feewins of the republicans so bad that they had no choice but to pick up their marbles and go home. After all, hurt feelings are more important than the country.

As usual, you (Republicans) can not admit that you can not control the folks in your party, but you can sure whine....I wonder if you are the people that Phil Gramm refers to? If the Minority Leader can not deliver, why is he the leader?

Sorry, but when you consider that the majority of Democrats in the House voted for the bill, while the majority of Republicans did not, I don't see how McCain could say its the Democrats fault. Or Obama, who came out in support of the bill.

So Pelosi came out with a speech. So what? Are the Republicans so wishy washy that they can't make up their own mind, and are that easily influenced? If they weren't willing to vote for the bill on its merits, doesn't matter who said what -- they wouldn't have voted. I say what happened is a lot of Republicans didn't want to take responsibility and were hoping someone else would vote it in.

I'd

"In the final analysis, lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum appeared to have reservations against the plan: Ninety-four Democrats and 132 Republicans voted "nay."
I guess McCain isn't very good at numbers...132 is MORE than 94 John.

What could be more political than a "Fake suspending of his campaign" and not speaking when present? Leadership please help Senator McCain find his judgement its loss between his brain and mouth- when you debate you look at the person you are addressing

The measure needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure.

And the democrats are to blame how? How, even in the game of politics could this fact be twisted around to blame the democrats?!

How can you right wingers be so blind. The bush admin. has pushed us over the edge and you guys and gals just use any excuse to to blame some one else. I hope you all rot in you know where. Thank G the lord good old Abe can't see what has become of his party.

If you look who voted against this bill, you will see that the Republicians are the ones who defeted this bill, not the Democrats

Good for Nancy Pelosi. It is about time that someone told the truth. We are in this mess because of the failed policies of the Bush Administration. This administration has fetched water for the wealthy for too long and now we all get to pay.

I am tired of the silence. We were silent about this war--oh, yeah we all know that it really isn't a war or about freedom. This is an occupation. However, when Bush asks for more money he tells us that we are past the point of finger pointing and have no choice but to cough up the check.

This administration has systematically fleeced the American People and it is high time that someone said so.

I'm angry with both candidates, Bush, Pelosi, and everyone who voted FOR this bill. This bill is an outright fraud. Thank God we have enough responsible leaders who actually understand economics to shoot this garbage down.

If the market sinks because crybabies on Wall Street want $700 BILLION (or 104 Nuclear Aircraft Carriers), then it SHOULD SINK. It will come back up when the emotions are out and common sense returns. We are at 6% unemployment compared to 25% during the great depression, and last quarter the GDP ROSE 3% as opposed to dropping 25%. McCain and Obama both are idiots when it comes to economics as the debate proved the other night convincingly.

Obama sunk the bailout?

It was the republicans who voted against it. It was the republicans who refused to regulate a greed-stricken industry that got us here.

So now here we are, on this web page, with ridiculous attacks, claims about terrorism, and whining republicans.

Oh, and not to mention it was a REPUBLICAN president who presented the plan.

This failure was all republican in every way.

secession! we need two governments! one conservative, one liberal.

Hell as far as I could see the majority of republicans voted against it

More McCain LIES

House Roll Call

The 228-205 roll call Monday of the vote by which the House rejected a $700 billion emergency bailout for the nation's financial system.

Voting yes were 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans.

Voting no were 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans.

So the Republicans who voted no to the bailout are now blaming the Democrats for the failure of the bailout to pass? ::head explodes::

McCain pulls a stunt by "suspending" his campaign (for almost exactly the length of time it took him to say it out loud) and then points a finger at ANYONE for playing politics? What a hypocritical douchebag.

The majority of republicans didn't vote yes either, so how is it Pelosi's fault?

How can anyone try to spin this to make it the fault of the Dems? Look at the vote tally this measure clearly was voted down by Republicans. As for the diatribe about terrorism , what in the world does that have to do with this articile?

Implying Obama was a member of the Weather Underground or a sympathizer is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. He was in elementary school at the time, idiots!!!

As for John McCain, he has no knowledge of economic issues to his "nonpolitical" Mighty Mouse skit on the Hill is pretty pathetic.

McCain looks like he's about to keel over. I mean honestly, there is no way that man is a day under 90. Listening to him speak is like listening to my grandfather as he trails off in sub-stories with no reason or point, finally ending with a pause to stare off in space and leaving everyone wishing they could have the last five minutes of their life back. Let's face the facts, McCain belongs in a retirement home, not the white house.

McCain blaming the democrats for today's bailout defeat is just plain old right wing mud slinging. What's new?

The measure needed 218 votes for passage. But it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 against. About 60% of Democrats and fewer than 33% of Republicans voted for the measure.

And the democrats are to blame how? How, even in the game of politics could this fact be twisted around to blame the democrats?!

Pelosi should have kept her mouth shut - and the Republicans shouldn't be such babies - do the right thing for the country even if they didn't like what she had to say. What is wrong with all these people don't they get the fact that it is not about them?

CONTINUING TO SPREAD LIES ABOUT OBAMA AND TERRORISTS IS NOT GOING TO WIN THE ELECTION FOR MCCAIN

Take your SwiftBoat Tactics of lies and deceipt all the way to defeat on Nov 5. The American public will not stand for this again. If anyone is guilty of political posturing over the financial crisis it is the repuglicans. Oh, little Nancy Pelosi hurt your feelings so you can't vote for a plan to help the country and solve the crisis. Sorry to say this whiners but Pelosi for once is correct, it was lax oversight that led to this. Get over it.

I listened to Pelosi attack Republican members' patriotism on Friday (by the way, a violation of House Rules that qualified her for displinary action) and then watched her press conference on Sunday where, once again, partisanship took over and she had to snipe at the Administration and the GOP while conveniently ignoring the culpability of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and other Dems who made (and took) millions of dollars from Fannie and Freddie while blocking reform legislation filed by Sen. McCain back in 2005 . Pelosi (whose eyes bother me, is she always stressed out or is that bad plastic surgery?)
does not have the statemanship to serve as Speaker of the House. Can you
imagine LBJ, Sam Rayburn or even Tip O'Neil failing to deliver 93 Democratic votes during a crisis? The fact is that Pelosi is mentally unstable and emotionally unfit to lead. Yes, this problem is her fault.
By the way, it bears repeating that the Democrats took control of Congress TWO YEARS AGO and, under Pelosi, failed to pass any regulations to prevent this crisis (but they had time for idiot investigations into areas where Congress has no jurisdiction, like AAG hiring, and they created "national Watermelon Month" before leaving on vacation this summer. The do-nothing Democrats cannot escape blame for this mess any more than Republicans who served ten years ago.

That's why during the debate, you could barely hear McCain say yes when he was pinned down and asked if he supported the bill. What a joke he is. Now it's Obama's fault the the republican house that rubberstamped anything bush ever wanted is looking for some way to reject their past 8 years of complicity? Sorry doufi-that dog won't hunt.

McCain should blame the American People for the failure. The House simply voted what their consituents wanted!! Way to go America! Thanks for ensuring my child's future is not mortgaged without consent.

Finally, someone in Washington listened.

Maybe Washington will work to put together a better plan.

133 Republican house members defied a president from their own party and voted against the bailout package but it's Obama's fault that it didn't pass? If you believe that you need to step away from the Kool-Aid.

Oh, grow a pair, Doug. That's almost as bad as Gov. Palin's Couric interview.

The Republicans are going to take the blame for this. They caused the problem in the first place by cutting SEC regulation to very near zero. They had one chance to fix it, and they blew that chance. After the dust settles and people realize that their jobs, houses, and retirements have disappeared into dust, there will be hell to pay. I don't expect to see any Republican elected, anywhere, for a very long time. Not even a Dog Catcher in Utah.

I'm reading these comments and I'm wondering if anyone is thinking about how we got here. As far as Im concerned this is under Bush's watch, and his administration is to blame for this entire mess. From gas prices, to declining support form our allies. This day was developed over 8 years by this administration sucking the life out of this country. So congrats to the House for not passing this wacked out Bailout. Another thing, there was a pretty high number of Rep. that voted NO also. Don't get it twisted people, someone is finally reading the smallprint.

Count the votes: 133 Republicans voted "no" and 140 Democrats voted "yes". McCain couldn't get his own party members in line!

Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and others need to be scrutinized over this whole mess as well as the scandalous action and inaction surrounding Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. This crisis has been coming for a long time since lawmakers personally profitted in their self-serving, arrogant, untouchable attitudes. They all need to be put under investigation, tried and removed from office and made examples of for misusing their power.

Really? You want to blame the Democrats for the fact that a Republican-created bill was not passed because republicans failed to vote for it!

November can not come fast enough! We need an election in this country in a bad way, It is time to re-evaluate every seat in the house. Failure to pass this bill is a failure to the american people. Regardless of someones speech on the floor.

I find it interesting that all it took for the Republicans to "go beserk" and vote against a proposal that was negotiated in good faith the day before was for the Speaker of the House to mention what led to our current financial disaster. By admitting that it was the Speaker's final speech that caused individuals to change their minds, the Republicans all but admit to engaging in petty politics. If they are rallying around the "Country First" cry, no speech would have caused them to vote against a bill they believed would help create financial stability. And they wonder why their approval rating is lower by the President's.

Facts about the vote: "...with 133 Republicans joining 95 Democrats in opposition. The bill was backed by 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans." So, more Republicans voted against the bill than Democrat and it's the Democrats' fault the bill didn't pass? Look, I'm not trying to start a partisan debate, but I call bullshit when I see it.

The democrats (mainly pelosi) used this crisis to attack the current administration. They accepted no blame and therefore do not deserve any of the credit if the bill were passed and helped the economy. Politics as usual.

According to the AP: "Ample no votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill." I don't see how this is the Democrats fault when two thirds of Republicans oppose the bill. Seems to me that this bill was opposed on a bipartisan basis.

Hey OtT,

Do you REALLY think you do McCain any good by posting that Wingnut Nonsense? (But then I guess that's why yer a wingnut.) Thanks for helping the cause for change!

You guys are redicolous. Obama a terrorist?! wtf! back in the 1990s?!? haha, you are ret#§'ed!
And about Pelosis speech: She was darn right! It was the terrible bush leadership that got us there...
And now it's the Democrats fault that the bill didn't pass haha, look at the numbers stupid...
Republicans just have to face that they got us and the rest of the world in a disaster.

John McCain's "suspension" of his campaign was a cheap political stunt to grab headlines, try and reverse a slide in the polls and possibly also to divert attention from Palin's unmasking in the Couric interview (which should be required viewing for all voters).

He didn't suspend a doggone thing. He spent all his time campaigning about how he wasn't campaigning. None of his offices across the country closed, and HE'S the one who upset the apple cart in DC. Stunts. It's all he's got.

Now he’s blaming the Democrats. Great strategy, classic Rove. Blame your opponent for the very thing you have done. What a circus. How can we take anything this guy says seriously?

I was rooting for the guy in 2000, before Rove and his gang derailed his run in the South Carolina primary by smearing him with all sorts of lies. This time around he hired the gang (minus Rove) to do the same thing for him. What a guy.

Rather than waiting for a bill to pass Wall Street needs to be working on their own problem. Stop pointing to others. This is nor New Orleans and this time it's my money without FEMA you are responsible. So get off your can and stop the panic, give some assurance by not having a fire sale with America's well being.
One more thing STOP the press panic is their main stay.

Ok, let me get this straight. Republicans are blaiming Dems because they voted against the republican presidents bill because of a couple of words someone said. You mean instead of putting country first they took their toys and went home because they were upset? Hmmm, real mature

I am very happy the bailout failed. Yes, it stinks that the stock market is plunging today. But we've survived bear markets before. Our freedom will not survive if government keeps taking over larger and larger chunks of the economy.

Uhhhh didn't you people read the vote breakdown? More Democrats than Republicans voted FOR the bill. Why don't you get the facts before spouting off all this nonsense.

How come John McCain and his "leadership" couldn't convince 14 more Republicans to vote for this?

Um... if the Republicans wanted to pass it they could have voted for it. If they wanted to be Partisan they could blame the Democrats even though they are the ones who failed to vote for it. How is that the Democrats' fault? Even if they called the Republicans names, it ultimately is the Republicans that voted against the bill. Blame all you want. The record stands that the Republicans defeated it. And honestly, the people didn't want it to pass, so maybe that's a good thing.

"The partisan tone at the end of the debate today I think did impact the votes on our side."

So much for "Country First."
Who knew it was so easy to insult a Republican?

And where's Senator McCain on his white unicorn to save the day? Claiming credit for a bailout that didn't occur, on legislation he didn't have anything to do with, in a House that didn't hear his demand for Republican votes to pass the bill.

Roll the dice again, John, the gamblers' lobby will win one for you!

Monies earned by legislators from Fannie & Freddie....

Gee I wonder who is feather their nest at tax payers expense?

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All McCain has to offer is spin... And he wonders why his campaign is tail spinning out our control... He should do us all a favor and pack it up before he recklessly steers this country further in the wrong direction. I will volunteer to buy him some G.I. Joe action figures and a piggy bank filled with pennies so he can play war and wreck his own economy!

love -Sally

If McCain wants to lead the nation, he has to be able to unite the nation when it needs, he failed the test in big way.

Regardless whoc is right or who is at fault -- Dematic or Republic, the country needs a unfied voice now than ever.

Most Republicans voted against the bill, and it's Obama's fault? Do you mean the Republicans would have fallen into line with THEIR president and THEIR candidate if the Democrat had asked nicely?

Ridiculous, sad, pathetic flailing. John McCain, you're destroying your legacy.

Republicans are running this country into the ground.
In those states where the congressional race is close five out of six republicans voted against the bailout. Talk about putting your interests ahead of country.

Please put some intelligence back into government and vote for Obama!

Oh EXCUSE me. Check the votes. Democrats approved this...it was the Republican party that sunk it.

After 9/11, our country was severly wounded. Our government responded with a bi-partisan vote for the "Patriot Act." After all, who WASN'T going to vote for something so patriotic as the "Patriot Act?"

As it turned out, most of them never had time to read it, digest it or understand what they were voting on. It gave this administration a blank check against terrorists, as well as our Contitution.

I certainly hope that there are hold-outs to passing this bail out. With $700 billion dollars on the line, of our tax dollars, this needs to be fully understood, debated and ammended, as needed.

The Democrats and Republicans that are "blinking" at this bail-out shouldn't be ridiculed. Thye should be applauded!

There's approximately $1 trillion in currency and coins in circulation in the US today, but anywhere from $40t to $1000t (the gov't stopped telling us many years ago) in theoretical money--money that is not backed by anything but the very interest that we owe, the money that has caused both our economic boom and our economic failure (you have spineless republicans, not democrats, to thank for this). The US has "added" an extra $300 billion to the economy already, and with another $700b bailout, the new "fake" or theoretical money would have been $1t. This would have devalued your money by anywhere from 1/40th to 1/1000th. Already, under the administration of George W. Bush, $9t in fake money has been added to our fake money pool, added utterly in the form of debt. The same effects of these devastating actions can be seen when a counterfeiter introduces fake money into circulation. It's money that isn't there. It's money that has no goods and therefore no value to back it. It's counterfeit money that the Federal Reserve Bank, a private corporation, collects interest on. It's a debt that we didn't receive any goods for. It's a debt that, without which, we would not have to pay income tax (income tax was created as a way to pay our debt to the Federal Reserve Bank). Without that debt, our tax money could go into social services, not some fat-cat Rockefeller's pocket in interest (regardless of principle).

I think the most disheartening thing about this whole affair is the unrelenting childishness of our elected officials and their seeming inability to grow up, stop the blame game, and get down to concentrating their collective time and energy on a solution. Shame on them all.

I am continually shocked at how ignorant people are. Boo hoo! Now, because the bailout bill got sacked, we're all going to live in boxes under bridges! How ludicrous. The people who believe such ilk are the same ones who can be tricked into giving up everything in the Bill of Rights out of fear of terrorists lurking in every shadow, into supporting a war of aggression that violates both US and international law for fear of WMD being hidden by Saddam Hussein. WAKE UP! Do you really think the sun won't rise tomorrow if the feds don't hand $700b over to Wall Street? Sheesh!

Republican Ideology is whats turning this great country into ruins. And now John McCain is trying to turn this into a circus. Read the votes you dumb Repo's you guys said NAY. And if Pelosi said something to hurt your feelings then toughen up and do whats right for America. Traitors are the first to preach patriotism.

2/3 of House Republicans voted against it. I thought McCain went there and cleaned it all up and put his fellow Republicans in line. THE DEMS WANTED THIS TO PASS, they always act for the people, and they knew this had to pass. Blame anyone who is greedy from either party you like, but McCain blaming the DEMS for the failure of the bailout plan is as crazy as his VP choice.

98% of the people, 30% of democrats and 60% of republicans againts this bill.. and this guy is blaming Obama?.. bad move...

Thank God it didn't pass. These goons in the banking industry are responsible for this mess and we're going to give them more money? My tax money??? Give me a break.

How about investing in some infrastructure, clean energy, education, and other things at the core of our society that have been deprived of funding since Bush took office.

As far as the candidates go, neither impresses me and McCain just scares me. Besides that, I don't understand how anyone can watch any video of Palin speaking in public and still keep a straight face... then again, I suppose the same could be said of Bush.

This article is one huge lie after the other. Gee, is that why I'm reading quotes mostly from House REPULBICANS as to why they did not vote for this? So now you're telling me they changed their votes because of a speech that got their ITTY BITTY FEELINGS HURT??? If that's the case they need to all resign and be replaced by people who can act like ADULTS. And EXCUSE ME, but it was McCain, NOT Obama, who USED this crisis for a bunch of selfish political grand-standing and LIED yet again, since political ads continued to air during his mockery of a less than 24-hour "suspension" of his campaign. And I'm pretty sure that in addition to phoning in, I saw PICTURES of BOTH Obama and McCain meeting in Washington last week on this bill. Obama seems to be the one who quietly did his job behind the scenes last week, depite McCain's stupid dirty tricks. You know, before he chose Caribou Barbie as his running mate, I actually respected McCain and would not have had a problem with him winning the election. But everything he's done since choosing her seems to be nothing but a desparate attempt to try get votes, even if he has to lie to do it. McCain is pathetic.

McCain, you are not really the real you are you? This must be the sadest day of your life. Sorry, nobody is listening. Your don't care about those of us who don't have great heaps of houses and money . We are in trouble, because of the years of dergulation with apointees as oversite who were appointed not to do their job. Obama wasn't around during the hercvulean efforts to destroy a safe banking system, reduce taxes for the rich, and ignore the results. No thank.

Thank you Pelosi, Obama and Reid for SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and Life's Savings in the Stock Market.

Posted by PUMA September 29, 08 03:41 PM

PUMA - How does stealing from the rest of us, make up for YOU not reading the fine print?

The stock market is a gambling, period. The house always wins.

What does it say about the intelligence and integrity of a congressman/woman if he/she lets a single speech at the end of a week of serious bi-partisan deliberation on a very serious issue change his/her vote?! Talk about looking for someone to blame!

The Republicans got their feelings hurt because Pelosi spoke the truth, so they decided to vote on their feelings instead of f looking after the people who elected them. That's typical. Oh, and thank you "Obama the Terrorist", for using this forum to spout more of the vile attacks that are so typical of the far right. I believe the topic was the bailout which Obama and McCain had NOTHING to do with. They just got in the way. Keep taking the kool-aid folks the conservatives have been feeding you while they rob the country blind. The rest of us are going to take time to find the facts - instead of attack ads - and vote accordingly.

Pelosi, Obama, and Reid sank your 401k, Pension Plan and Life Savings in the stock market? Jeez, here I thought it was the leaders of the investment banks who basically invested your 401k and your pension plan in what amounted to this generations "junk bonds".

Place the blame where it belongs...half with you and half with Wall Street. Any "investment" you have is nothing more than a legal way to gamble. You gambled your money and it now appears you lost. You made a decision to divert income into a 401k, no one else did this for you, right?

As for the banks buying up the subprime mortgages of people who had no way to pay for them...they are getting what they deserve. Free market means that the market is free to fall. I for one am waiting for it to crash so I can invest at the bottom...and if the government prevents me from doing that by 'bailing out' Wall Street, then I plan to do everything in my power to start a class action suit.

Finally some common sense on the hill. Sorry Barney, GREED, not the Republicans drove this loan crisis. Let the chips fall where they may, I don't need to subsidize Wall Street.

Definition of letting politics get in the way of something? Giving all the blame to your opponents and all the credit to yourself.

Not that the bailout was a good idea. Both of em are wrong there. But this is just laughably cynical from McCain.

"Earlier in the week, when Senator McCain came back to Washington, there had been no deal reached. ... What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all the parties to the table, including the House Republicans." — Senior adviser Steve Schmidt, 9/28/08

BUT, McCain did not sway the Republican house members to vote for the Bill. McCain could not deliver what he promised, and this is a constant through out his carreer.

Nobody is impressed with the borderline psychotic 'cut-n-paste' about Obama's religion or so-called terrorist connections. Take a pill and go away.

Nobody

If the Bill was a good Bill, then it should have had the necessary votes. A rose is a rose is a rose. A political speech, or calling the bill a name does not take away from its merits, if it has merits. Those who are saying they did not vote for the bill because of something Pelosi said are themselves putting politics first. Instead of saying they did not vote for the bill based on its lack of merit, they are like a bunch of little kids complaining that Pelosi called them names. GROW UP and DO YOUR JOB.

Caution, Obama the Terrorist. You are going to break your caps key with all that type-shouting you are doing. Meanwhile, what does that rant have to do with partisanship and the passage of this bill? Are they all part of a terrorist plot, too? It doesn't help your cause to rant, that is, if you have a cause in the first place.

Wow, there are some conservatives on crack here. This bill was shot down by your red friends in Congress. Pull your heads out people. First you want the govt out of business, now you want it in business? If you are a true consertative, then you should believe in the virtues of little govt intervention in business, or your personal life. Unfortunately, there are neoconservatives out there that dont even understand what the definition of conservatism is. To complain that our govt isnt stepping in and bailing out private companies that took financial risks is liberalism at its finest. If you are going to criticize and politicize something, make sure you understand your own political idealogy first.

All McCain did was make a few phone calls on Saturday yet it was Obama who was "phoning it in"?

Please.....Obama was in constant contact with Paulson and Dodd. McCain.....took 22 hours to make the 1 hour flight to DC to help blow up the deal....

"Campaign First" is more like it.....

Let's see...
Democrats vote to support the bailout 140 - 95,
Republicans vote against it 133 - 65,
and it's the Democrats fault it didn't pass???
Typical GOP double-talk .

Give it a rest with the blame game already. If the Repulicans in congress were truly looking out for the best interest of the American public then a few WORDS would not have torpedoed this bill. Congress needs to grow up. I blame EVERYONE. Not just Pelosi for her inflammatory words.

Politcs before country has always been part of the fundamentals of Republicans. The Republican party is at the root of this problem. Your fundametals have always asked for deregulation. You asked for it and now you got it! THANKS for bringing us back to the 1930s.

Holy crap is that "Obama's a Terrorist" guy a kook. Look at the votes- the bail out was mainly killed by Republicans who are all of a sudden flip-flopping on their long love affair with Wall Street to pretend they are populist defenders of regular Americans. It's phony and everybody with a brain can see that.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt it John McCain that uses the line "country first"? If that were so, then why did a partisan speech change republicans votes on a piece of legislation that is importanat to the people under which they serve? If it were truly "country first" the Republicans would have done what was right no matter what.

There would be no need for this bail out if it was not for the Republican leadership and their insistence that regulation is holding back Wall Street. For 8 years they fought against oversight, regulation, and governance of our financial system. It has come to bite them.

The Democrats are doing nothing more than looking out for the taxpayers that are now being forced to save these corporations and their greedy executives. By capping golden parachutes and making sure there is oversight the Democrats are doing their job as representatives, and House Republicans still feel they have to do their best to screw over America yet again.

They got us into this mess, we have to do SOMETHING to get us out, and we should make sure that whatever we end up doing has the interests of both the economy, the corporations, AND the taxpayers in mind.

Its funny that the Republicans pull out of the deal, but its the Democrats fault. Just shows the lack of logic that has run that group of people for the last few decades.

McCain's claim that the Dems are to blame for the bill's failure is disingenuous. Far more Republicans voted against the bailout bill than Democrats, so the majority of Republicans actually opposed the bill. McCain needs to check his facts before firing off irresponsible comments like that. I am a Democrat that is actually leaning towards voting for McCain, but I may change my mind if this is the sort of thing we can expect from him. The breakdown is as follows: The vote against the measure was 228 to 205, with 133 Republicans joining 95 Democrats in opposition. The bill was backed by 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans

The Democrats are looking out for the little guy? Yea... Right. There is not 1% difference between Dems and Reps. Just a few extreme people like Pelosi on the far end of the spectrum. and whomever her counter part is on the Republican side Look at the money trail on this deal. Who were the politicians that got the most money from Fanny and Freddy and then decide who is looking out for the little guy. It is a shame that once again, we let the extremists few control the majority

'Dems are Not Bipartisan' and 'Puma' blame Pelosi for Republicans' refusal to support the bailout.

Anyone who felt the bailout bill should be passed should have voted for it. Is it possible that any adult, elected representative would throw our people, our country - and many others, as it happens - further into this financial quagmire because they were sulking about Pelosi's remarks?

'Dems' and 'Puma' are doing their Congressional pals no favors by suggesting that they are indulging in these maneuverings out of childish spleen.

This is how many were for the plan 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans. How can you blame the Democrats here? Are the Republicans such imbeciles that they can't take any sort of ownership or criticism? It is completely irresponsible for the Republicans to have changed their minds on the vote when there is so much at stake.

Just like the game the Republicans have played since 1994, always blaming someone else for the utter fiasco they have made of the American Dream.
It's not Pelosi, it's not Obama that got us into this mess and it's not them who are soley repsonsible for getting us out either. So one woman's speech, telling it like it IS was sufficient to have the Republican Men run home to Mama W like a bunch of whiners, eh? It is the House Republicans who didn't have the Patriotism or the guts to vote for America instead of crawling into their dens of darkness to hide for fear of losing their cushy, do-nothing jobs. What a bunch of hypocrits all.

Last I checked Bush and company have been saying up until two weeks ago that the fundamentals our our Country are strong. I am a Bankruptcy attorney. I can tell you the fundamentals of our economy have not been strong for a very long time. Years in fact. The number one reason we are where we are at is because Bush and company pushed for no regulation of the financial industry.

'Truth is spreading..." where do you come up with this? Can we discuss the real issues here? Like the ongoing lack of leadership by the Republican and the previous Republican-led Congress? Why do we have to go down the 'swift boat' road that got us into this mess that we are in? Let's discuss real issues and see some leadership for a change. You disgust me.

MC CLUM If you think you are the little guy, then you must be on wellfare or other entitlements. Those of us who have worked hard to get pension plans, 401K's, IRA's or other means of having a modest retirement ( despite the democrats pillaging the social security fund) just got wiped out.
You are obviously too naive to understand that that wallstreet consists of "little guys" from all over the world. But your demo friends have made us quite a bit smaller now. Maybe we can share your entitlements.

Obama and Pelosi to blame for the failure?? Try reading the facts. 66% of Democrats voted FOR the bailout, as opposed to barely 33% of the republicans (170 to 65). McCain could not even deliver 12 more votes from his own party to close the deal, yet wants to blame the Democrats. Truth is, he claims he can deliver non-partisan votes, yet he just got mud all over his face. This is damage control for the political GOP machine. And for those thinking it was Pelosi's speech that did it, read Barney Franks comments. If there are 12 republicans that got their feelings hurt and decided to ruin what the American people needed because of what Pelosi said, get a life and a new job.

Let's say Pelosi's comments were nasty and partisan. The bill to be approved. did not change. Why would anyone change his vote on a bill because Nancy called him a bad name? We got over that in grade school.
DFL

Let me get this straight. 60% of Democrats voted for the bill and only 33% of the Republicans voted for the bill and this makes it's the Democrats fault? Last I checked, 40% of the Democrats would tally to around 90 to 100 votes against while 66% of Republicans would tally to around 120 to 130 or so votes against.

Thank you George W Bush!!!! 10 trillion dollar deficit and he wants US to bail out his rich banker buddies...or was this just his idea of "the golden parachute" for him & his cronies? You can't blame the Congress for this mess. It still boils down to the FAILED economic policies of a President who was NEVER elected, but appointed by the Supreme Court in 2000. Let's face it George - you've never succeeded at ANY of your ventures. You should skip out of Washington with your tail between your legs. If ANYONE should be resigning it should be YOU and YOUR cabinet members (who change weekly!!!).

There is no help for the little old retired guy who has lost everything. I have to live with my Financial problems. Maybe Congress and Wall Street should have to start over with nothing like I am doing. Congress has been asleep at the wheel for to long. It is to late to fix the economy. Maybe it is time for some new leadership in Washington.

If I hear one more ignorant person claim that Palin was selected because the McCain camp thought she would attract women, especially Clinton Democrats, I'm going to scream! She might be attractive to some women, but Clinton Democrats are NOT chief among them, and that was not McCain's primary motivation in choosing her. The main reason for her selection was to ignite the Republican base- which, by the way, is EXACTLY what she has done! McCain is a moderate Republican- it's not an easy place to be in to be too liberal for the conservatives and too conservative for the liberals, but he's exactly who the Republicans needed to nominate because they couldn't pick someone too conservative immediately following Bush. Palin has united the conservatives of the Republican Party behind McCain when they were previously lukewarm to him and has allowed him to reach out to Independents and moderates of both parties. Get it straight, please, and know your politics before you start bashing people. And, besides, you don't think Obama's selection of Biden was politically motivated? He picked him solely to shore up his weakness on experience, and he threw the "change" claim out the window in one fell swoop when he did, because Biden's been in Washington several years longer than even McCain has!

Hard to understand, however Nancy P. and other Democrats should SHUT UP and Obama should take a back ground leadership action in making them do so.
Get over the fact that the Republicans may have led the way to this.
Lets not forget that it was the Republicans who sunk this bill and we need to understand why.
If it is because they are concerned about us taxpayer-WONDERFUL- If it is because they dislike the bills regulation that would prevent furthur pilfering of the lower and middle class by the - GOD SAVE US.

Look everyone shut up and be still for a minute. the people in washington can not be trusted and it doesn't matter what party it is. they do not have a clue about economics and this country should listen to those who are in the know, we are not in a 700B problem it is more like 3T and this band of crooks are just looking for time to get thru the election. come on people look at Paulson he was on both sides and let it happen do you get that do you???? Head of Goldman Sacks 99-06 and 06 to present in DC get it yet. how can any intellegent person not. you have a friend do you not help your friend, well they do it with Billoinds of dollars our dollarsand we should give them more no what we should do is let the market corre itself and let these bums suffer like the rest of us, we are in deep right now and they put us there so why do we reward them. lets say you had a small buisness and you made some bad decisions do you get a check from the feds no you go out of buisness like thousands ever year, when will it end as others who have friends in washington say hay you did it for them what about me. this is wrong and it should not be us to pay for it. so you D & R stop and think what is going on and rise up and say no more, we have had it you bums all of them wake up do your job or get out, the time is comming soon once we have no gas or food and than we will make change until than we drink our bud and let the other guy do it well sorry that time is gone

I response comment #2, I just finished reading an article about how the McCain campaign has decided to go extremely negative on Obama because of the latest polls. I guess this comment is an example of their plan. Personally, I never understood the big outrage over Ayers. The guy was bad, but he did turn himself in and face his punishment. Since then he has been working to make elementary education better. Where's your Christian forgiveness?? Should we be looking at the criminal pasts of every former or present associate of the candidates? How about Keating??? And what about the illegal drug activity of Cindy McCain? A less wealthy and influential individual would have done some serious jail time for forging illegal perscriptions. My advice is: concentrate on the issues. There are plenty of questionable associations in McCain's closet.

We are suppose to rush in and bail out Wallstreet for the mistakes WALLSTREET made and for the mistakes the BUSH ADMINISTRATION made - telling us our economic system was "sound" weeks prior to our financial systems collapsing. I am sick of the Bush Administration spending and spending and spending to try to fix the mistakes they have made.

In addition, Barack Obama has absolutely no ties to terrorism, and the fact that people are saying that is simply racist, and uneducated opinions. Check your facts and welcome to the 21st century.

well apparently the dems. aren't trying to help the little guy to much. if they have such a good plan to get us out of this mess. they don't need the rep. vote to do it. i don't know about you, but i sure don't feel safe!!!

WOW!!!!!! Another Rep and John McCain stunts. OOPS the Rep and John McCain did it again. No wonder why he never mention the poor people that's suffering with the 8 years of he's mentor BUSH bad economy.

PEOPLE IF YOU DON'T LIKE OBAMA FOR A CHANGE

VOTE FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF BAD ECONOMY.

It's amazing how stupid McCain and his attack dogs take Americans to be.

This is exactly why we need Obama. Obama will bring us together. We cannot come together unless we stop blaming others and talking about what we want and begin working for it together. Both Pelosi and McCain inspire us to point fingers and blame.

I can completely agree that this bailout should not be given to the same group of idiots (Bush & handlers) who caused this problem. They would follow their same mindset and ruin us all completely.

The comment above about Obama and terrorists is just insane and the poster should maybe seek professional help.

just look at the vote and judge for yourself. the numbers do not spin or lie. if someone voted because they were 'angry' at the speakers comments and not in the best interest of the country then shame on them. if the vote was one of conviction then ok. for McCain to suggest that the speakers words turned votes is a terrible indictment of anyone who may have done that

Did anyone actually look at the vote count before bashing Obama? Two thirds of the republican representatives voted AGAINST the bailout bill opposed to 40% of the democrats. If failing to pass the bill was a bad thing, and it was largely the republicans that tanked the bill, how is it Obama's fault? If only a the average american was rational, we would not be talking about bailouts or listening to illogical arguments about who's fault it is.

How are Pelosi and the Democrats to blame when 60% of Democrats voted to pass the legislation compared to a mere one-third of Republican representatives? If the argument is that more Republicans voted NO as a reaction to Pelosi's speech, than I am ashamed that there is not more emotional maturity in our politicians. Voting no doesn't effect Pelosi or Democratic politicians, it specifically hurts the middle-class American people's 401K investments and the economic standing of the United States as a whole.

Dumb statement:
Dems: 140 yes, 95 no. Rep 65 yes, 133 no.

OMG..the first two comments...ya know the ones..the ones that look more like a book report than a simple comment..maybe one of the ghost writers the RNC is employing to write on the blogs...we will not be fooled for another 4 years...

Um, ok, let's see if we have this straight . . .

The McCain campaign cries politics on the Democrats then claims the bill failed because the Republicans were offended by the Speaker's speech?

What kind of cynical, nonsensical logic is that? Oh yes, McCain logic. The same judgment that picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. It's all clear now.

Who's this guy's strategist of the minute? Scooby Doo?

Are you kidding??? Maybe McCain isn't very good at math:

140 Democrats and 65 Republicans voting in favor
95 Democrats and 133 Republicans against

...yes, clearly it was the Democrats who caused it to fail. Even with the Minority House Leader and President backing the bill, the Republicans still couldn't get as many as half of their folks to buy into it. Since when is it the Dem's responsibility to sell a Republican President's bill to their own party? This is a major failure of the GOP.

I'm a life-long Republican and can't believe the deception, spin, and blatant selfishness that makes up McCain's campaign. It's gone off the deep end with more lying than I've ever seen. I refuse to have anything to do with McCain, his ridiculous VP candidate, or the grand-standing house Republicans. This deal was done last week until McCain's suspend-the-campaign stunt. Suddenly all the Republicans are upset, the deal is toast, the market crashed. McCain never even suspended any part of his campaign -- he did interviews, Palin did interviews, photo-ops in his senate office, the debate.

So, all the republicans voted for the bill? If they had, it would have passed. I believe more dems voted for the bill than reps. Don't blame them.

So we're suppossed to believe that up until Pelosi spoke this was a done deal? Yeah, right. Two-thirds of House Repubs, and nearly half of the House Dems, had no intention of signing off on this bill from the get-go. The clamor of House Repubs and McCain to blame Pelosi, and more laughably Obama, for this failure is as cynical as it is transparent. Pelosi was attempting to curttail, or at least mitigate blame from ALL of Congress (Dems and Repubs alike) for this mess, and lay it squarely at the feet of an unpopular, lame-duck president. Instead House Repubs decided to try and pull another political fast-one like last Thursday in the hopes of injecting partisanship into this again. This bailout stinks, but continuing to play games with it just sucks.

hmmm, let's see. 60% of Dems supported the bill, compared to 33% of Repubs. It's obvious who is responsible. McCain isn't a bipartisan leader; he can't even get his own people to fall in line.

This from Reuters:
"Numerous members of Bush's own Republican party in the House opposed the package, before the vote, because they believed it would be an overly intrusive government intervention in the markets.
The Bush administration failed to bring them in line in time for Monday's crucial vote."
McCain finds it easier to blame, because all he really knows is 20th Century combat history!

133 Republicans voted NO to the bailout. 140 Democrats voted YES; only 65 Republicans voted YES.

Explain to me again, Senator McCain, how the Democrats messed this up? Bush can't get enough people in his own party to pass this bill and the "suspension" of your campaign didn't seem to help much either, did it?

So - the Rethuglicans who voted against this aren't to blame? They repudiated their own President and Party leadership. If they didn't like the truth told by Pelosi and got their feelings hurt, they get to take it out on the whole country?

But it's Obama and the Democrats? - what utter crap.

Unbelievable. 2/3 of Republicans in the house vote no on a bill supported by their leadership and their president. Yet McCain says the defeat is due to a Democratic senator. He is divorced from reality.

That's typical Republican party tactics to say something and do another. So what if this speech was partisan ? Does this mean you have to put your country at risk ? This is so childish... The bottom line is that the republicans will not take responsibility for this bill because of the elections coming up. It's interesting to see that they voted against a bill they introduced themselves and because some healthy oversight was added, they don't want it anymore...

It is stunning to me that people still think about voting republicans. What do you need to understand ? Isn't the economy bad enough ? Do you need to live in the street ?

and "Thank you Pelosi, Obama and Reid for SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and Life's Savings in the Stock Market"... Oh please !!! it's because of the republicans that your savings are now at risk, they gambled with your savings and now you'll have to pay for the loss. It's not even guaranty that this measure will fix anything, again it's pure speculation...

I have a legitimate question that I would like an answer to. I'm undecided and have no allegiances for any candidate. Why are the republicans blaming the democrats for the defeat if two thirds of them voted against it?

Thank You for not being pressured by the rich who have taken their money out of the market and caused this drop in the Dow. They only think of themselves. The people are watching brave men and women putting the little people first.

Leave it to the vile McCain campaign to inject politics into this.

What Pelosi said was the Truth. Apparantly the truth hit too close to home for some of these low life Republicans.

Most of the Dems were on board for this. The blame rests squarely with the Republicans who changed their votes because Nancy Pelosi spoke the truth and it hurt their feelings.

Aw, poor Republicans. The truth hurts, doesn't it? But, instead of taking it, you're playing partisan politics with the country's welfare at stake. The whole bunch of them should be ashamed of themselves.

Apparently the text of the bill changed between the time she gave the speech until the time they voted. Unless of course I misunderstood the vote. It is voting on a bill not a popularity contest, right?

The truth hurts about Bush and the Republican's failure to oversee Wall Street. Blaming the speaker of the House for her comment or the Democrats is just a political manuever aimed at exposing Republican denial that this mess occurred under Republican watch. McCain is simply bankrupt for solutions as well and is trying to "act" like he is working diligently. The republicans are playing the obstructionists here...in fact, it is the republican leadership in the white house that is calling for the bailout...not the democrats. So, the republicans are the ones putting Main street's investors at risk by doing nothing and being obstructionists. The republicans are only too ready to hand over control to Wall Street so that their financial supporters can keep them elected. These republicans should be kicked out of Congress and let folks who truly represent Main street run congress.

ANYONE WHO BLAMES REPUBLICANS FOR THIS IS AN IDOIT. There are 235 democrats in the house so if every democrat voted for it and every republican voted against it it still would have passed. But hey, I read the actual text of the bill and I am actually glad it didn't pass. It would have given EXCESSIVE power to the Secretary of the Treasury and whatever part of the bill the taxpayer didn't get stuck with would have been sold off to foreign governments.

Is this a joke? Does anyone read, or is it good enough to just listen to John McCain, since he's so good at keeping the story straight?

Vote Total: 207 YES, 226 NO

Breakdown:
Democratic 141 Yes, 94 No
Republican 66 yes, 132 no

Brilliant. Blame the democrats. Paulson and his crones can artificially deflate the market and EXTORT congress to pass the legislation.

So no mention of the fact that McCain's "suspension" didn't actually happen, that he continued to do interviews and run ads through the whole thing? No mention of the many, many people in the process who blame McCain for injecting party politics into the negotiations and making the deal fail? And above all, NO MENTION of the fact that it was the republicans that defected from the bill, the republicans that voted against it? You can't blame the democrats for the failures of your republican congressmen no matter how you try.

As for the person still talking about Ayers, thanks for making me laugh. That crap was justly ridiculed months ago. Obama has had very little in actual dealings with the guy, and the illegal stuff he did was nonviolent and occurred when Obama was a small child. The fact that you loonies continue to bring this ridiculous crap up just highlights how desperate you are.

The blame game continues. Someone needs to edit the comments on this blog as they are off-topic and offensive. The Bush administration should take the major blame. They are the ones who floated this proposal as a do or die, "trust only us," fix-it-our-way-or-die solution. This is so huge that one week is not enough time. With an election coming up no way would the Republicans let the Democratic leadership have a victory. And who said this would really work anyway.

First of all, even if a partisan speech was given prior to the vote- why would someone with the the best intentions of the people of the United State of America let that alone sway their vote? Absolutely ridiculous reason to vote down a bill because of a partisan speech???- it makes NO SENSE. If they cared about the bill and supported the bill then they should have voted for it. How DARE they try to spin this onto the democrats. I am so disgusted, I am at a loss of words.

The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of those who made the decision to vote "Nay."

On whose watch was this monster nourished? This is the crowning glory of eight years of autocratic leadership, irresponsibility and gross mismanagement. Don't try to blame the Democrats or the American people. We've been outta the loop for a long time.

I don't follow the McCain campaign's reasoning. The Republicans by more than a 60% majority voted against the bill. The Democrats by approximately a 60% majority supported the bill. Both Democrat and Republican House leaders gave impassioned speeches before the vote, imploring the legislators to pass the bill for the sake of the voters. So that means, according to the McCain campaign's logic, Republican lawmakers put future retirements, college loans, and pensions at risk because Nancy Pelosi said some negative things about Republican policies. Very mature of them.

McClum and Uncle Rico.....You two are in die-need of a civics lesson. Democratic Socialistic-Marxism is NOT what this country needs.

PLEASE NOTE: When you take from the productive and give to the non-productive, all you are going to have is more non-productive.

The house republicans are balking because of a sentence Nancy Pelosi said? Why do we elect these republican idiots to the congress anyay. If all they care even after a bipartisan team had poured over the details over many nights and made many changes is a sentence from Nancy Pelosi saying the mess was created by the administrations reckless behaviour? If McCain or Bush couldn't line up the republican ducks in the house before voting began, I don't know how McCain can take any credit for the bailout plan. The plan is not a plan unless it is passed. Now the republicans are holding the plan hostage in the house. This shows no leadership from the McPhony.

SAME OLD REPUBLICANS!! THEY DON'T GET IT. THEY CUT OFF THE BIG BOYS AS WELL AS THE THE LITTLE GUYS GETTING KICKED OUT THEIR HOMES. THE INDEPENDENT CAR DEALERS AND FRANCHISED DEALERS CAN'T GET FLOORING. CREDIT CARD LIMITS WILL BE CUT ON ALREADY MAXED ACCTS. PAYROLLS WILL BE MISSED. UNEMPLOYMENT WILL GO UP. TO HELL WITH PUBLIC SERVICE. NO MORE ENLISTMENTS & IGNORE THE DRAFT. GIVE CONGRESS A 25% PAY INCREASE AND INCREASE THEIR FRINGE BY 50%. PLEASE RECESS CONGRESS FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.

Republicans did not favor the bill because it goes against their traditional core belief of less government (more Republicans voted against the plan). When Bush policies leave no option though, more government, in the form of a bailout, is a necessary means to save the economy. McCain is certainly not showing his "maverick" character, but is looking more desperate and stooping down to the Bush/Rove level these days.

Thats right...blame the Dems....since they are the ones that have held office for the past 8 years....8 years while everything has gone to hell. And all will be better with George McCain is president. Screw this...I am moving to Canada...at least their money is worth something!

Many more Republicans voted against the bill then Democrats so it was the Republicans who to blame for the defeat. They will get a bill passed... just not this one.

The GOP is pathetic and two-faced.

So, now it's Nancy Pelosi's fault that the bailout didn't pass, because Republicans got their feelings hurt when she said something bad about the Bush administration, and THAT'S why they decided to change their votes and not pass the bailout? Talk about not putting country first! What a bunch of babies!

This is insane! It seems like we're all in kindergarden: pointing fingers, mad rush to blame him, her.

And it continues; do you know from an international perspective we all look like a bunch of bumbling idiots. We need to get it together, if only for a friggin' week.

Seriously!

To McClum, I think you are right about terrible politics, but suggest that all any of them are trying to protect is their precious selves. While we are looking for people to blame let's not leave ourselves, the voters, out. We continue to elect people on image (maverick, fighter, savior, or whatever), symbols (flag pins, loving wives, or bibles), and worst of all pigheadedness. The concept of compromise is what created the Constitution in the first place, but now it is widely seen as proof of weakness. Until we demand that our elected officials put results ahead of credit and blame we get what we deserve - lots of noise and not much else.

Just hours ago McCain was claiming credit for getting the bill through. Only 60 Republicans voted for the Bill, he wants to blame Democrats? Too funny. If anything this shows that when push comes to shove McCain can't even unify members of his own party. How is he supposed to unify the country?

How can McCain claim it was Dem's that put "politics ahead of country" when they only reason they can come up with for NOT voting for it is because somebody said something they didn't like? If this bill REALLY was meant to save the nation, and all those republicans DIDN'T vote for it because somebody hurt their feelings, who REALLY is to blame??
But the truth is that this bill was a poison pill. It was a band aid on a sucking chest wound. We need serious legislation to fix the problem, not insane amounts of taxpayer money that will likely get soaked up by the HUGE economic issues we are facing.
And the simple fact is that it WAS the failed economic policies of this administration AND of McCain that lead us here in the first place! THIS is the result of all that "wonderful" deregulation.

PUMA, it's time you and those like you dig their heads up out of the sand for the first time possibly ever and smell what it is the Republicans are shoveling.

The vote was as follows:

Yea
140 Democrats
65 Republicans

Nay
95 Democrats
133 Republicans

So we are supposed to believe and entrust the solution into the hands of the very same people that caused this situation to occur? I don't think so! After that dog and pony show Sunday night I don't blame the House Rep. for rejecting this plan. That was one of the most partisan speeches imaginable by the speaker of the House. The whole thing was orchestrated to prop up Obama and the elections, not solve a problem.
Do they think “we the people” are that naive?
So much for “bi-partisanship and civility”, Ms. P.
Uncom

Puma, Yes sir, it is all the Democrats fault. They have controlled the White House and had a veto proof majority in Congress for 8 years, they have shielded the money lenders in Wall Street, failed to enforce regulations, given billions to the wealthy, governed by divisive politics, and scared everyone with biblical language as it relates to the last days.
Partisan speech. That's all we have heard from dump George W., Rove, and their cronies. I can hardly wait for the election, when the Democrats will bury you and all of your like-minded friends.

Fail and Blame Game:
Republicans could not deliver! Now McCain said: let us find somebody to blame this for. Oh, how about Democrats?
Here Republicans go again with the same old game of failing and blaming.
Who is President Bush? Republicans. Under whose leadership did the market fail?
Bush-McCain's. But, it is the Democrats failure. Did they really say that? Yes.

At last the strong, steady, leader appears. John McSame parachuting into Washington to garner publicity to rescue his faltering campaign because he "puts his country first" . Cancels his appearance on Letterman but has time for CBS when he should have been taping Letterman. Wants to cancel the debate unless there is a " bailout deal", then flip flops and says we must have a "bailout plan" before I can debate. He then attends the photo op with Pres Bush et al, and says nothing when Republicans bolt from the leadership accord and it has to be revised over the weekend. After announcing "suspension" of his campain-NOT (nothing changed except he was in Washington gumming up the works for 2 days) he then decides to debate with no "plan" in place. Now after the Republicans kill the "plan" (2/3 vote against it while a majority of DEms support the plan) he blames Dems. This is the height of hypocrisy. I expect nothing less from the CROOKED TALK EXPRESS!

After a whirlwind week in which he

Let the extremism commence. Let's radicalize the agenda as much as possible. Some will suffer, but some will gain. At least it will be interesting.

If republicans are letting the economy go down because they don't like what Pelosi said to them, then they are whiny little kids who are not voting to save our economy because they are so hurt by her words.

I'd have more respect if they'd say they didn't vote for it because they didn't like it, not because they were offended by her words. Grow some cahones!

Pelosi was RIGHT, and the whiney repubs just don't like to hear the truth! That's the truth! It's EXACTLY at a time like this that we should be picking which side is best suited to come up with more of the solution to this problem, and it ISN'T the side that got us into this mess!

Am sorry but the bill failed because of what someone said and not by its content??? America wake up, 60% to 33% is the measure by which the Democratic Party should be taking back the white house.

You are blaming the democrats for sinking the bailout because Pelosi issued a "partisan" statement???

The democrats overwhelmingly voted to pass this thing; if you are arguing that it was justified for the republicans to reject the bill because Pelosi said some mean things about George Bush, you, and your republican representatives need to grow a pair.

Just the fact that he would bring up the blame game during this economic crisis is in poor taste. what ever happened to reaching across the aisle? What a campaign gimic "It is Obama's fault, he put politics ahead of country".

I would offer that the McCain camp is doing the very thing he is accusing his opponent of. They need to up McCain's game from blaming to producing results.

It will be nice when elections are over. Rather sick of the four of them already. McCain with his rock concert music at every event. Obama and the community work mantra is getting played out too. Palin's voice strangely resonates in my frontal lobe, and Biden is on LSD watching Roosevelt on TV talking about the depression.

Is this article for real? Turning this crisis into a blame game. That's sad.
Risky loans and derivatives are at the heart of the financial system collapase. Both parties are to blame for poor oversight. Let's get past it. These are complex issues. We need intelligent people in Washington on our side to get through them. When you listen to experts like Buffet, Volker, Roubini et al, we really need a bill. This is not a democratic or republican issue. This is an American way of life issue.

Democrats trying to protect the little guy?! Mcclum et al - you clearly have not spent much time working in or around Federal, State, or local government. I have, and let me tell you both parties ultimately stop at nothing to further their own people and their own party interests! To think otherwise is stupid and naive - sorry - I can't think of any nice way to put it because that's the WAY IT IS! I can't believe anyone would support someone like Obama or Nancy Pelosi, and I am not 100% thrilled with McCain either. What about this Obama-Ayers thing?!? Anyone going to stand up and ANSWER that or is everyone on the left just going to duck and hope it "goes away"? I for one want to know about this! Oh and I loved Biden's comments about it being "my patriotic duty to pay more taxes"? The heck with you Biden - that was a DUMB thing to say and think we've ALL paid ENOUGH taxes in this country! How about you big government liberals go and actually do something MEANINGFUL with all that money! And in regard to this bailout and the repeated theme again from lots of people that everything in the world is Bush's fault - GET A CLUE! What about YOUR part as an American in standing up for your country - how about YOUR part or YOUR fault in any of this? Sitting around crying and whining like a bunch of babies throwing a temper tantrum and pointing a finger at the President seems to be the theme of the day! Everything in this world or even in America that goes wrong is NOT GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT! For those of you who think otherwise, I highly recommend calling a therapist and arranging an appointment for yourself right away because you are having very sad and serious denial issues.

Silly Senator McCain. He's doing it again. Erratic opportunism at the expense of our country. But, ah, he keeps the rhetoric "Country First". But whose country is this? Which America is he working for? Not my America. It's the single-man America of Mr. McCain. Mr. McCain's America: Sabor rattling McCain working on "winning" the wars while Americans eat dust.

Most media won't put up with this because McCain has lost a great deal of good will by acting so erratic with his single intent of being president regardless of the affect on the American people and their bank accounts and 401Ks. Shame on you Mr. McCain you are a little, little man(5'6" to be exact) whose honor has shrunk down to the size of that non-existent flag pin he wears on his lapel.

Let me get this straight...
The vast majority of Republicans voted against the bill (65 for, 133 against). The majority of Democrats voted for it (140 for, 95 against). Yet somehow it's failure to pass was the Democrats' fault. Amazing...

Oh, some Republicans wanted to vote for the bill, but they were offended by Pelosi's comments. What Pelosi said didn't change the content of the bill. We the people entrust these bafoons to govern in the best interest of the country, not in the best interest of their feelings or egos. It's like their still little kids on the playground and if someone calls them a name they're going to take their balls and go home.

The bill failed because Republicans didn't put "country first". It doesn't get any simpler than that.

And McCain claimed Obama "phoned it in". That's funny since McCain literally phoned it in...from his hotel room. Yes, despite the sudden urgency that lead him to "suspend" his campaign last week and demand to be included in meetings he had no part in, he spent the weekend trying to gather support by phone, from his hotel room in Washington, rather than directly on Capitol Hill. It seems that he finally figured out that being personally involved in the meetings was detrimental and "phoning it in" was the right course of action. John "Country First" McCain does it again!

What is happening here could be the beginning evolution from corporate controlled government to public controlled if the bailout is rejected. Let's go back to small business and mom and pop stores, screw the big corporations. The bailout is just another example of how corporations will steal and lie when they get the chance.
We have seen how corporate greed and Bush got us into a war that killed thousands of American soldiers and innocent Iraqi people. Can you imagine the impact on a soldier when he realizes that he is dying for oil rich corporations and not for his country? However, this information is kept from him so he dies in blessed ignorance.
Greed has no sympathy and will always use people for its own ends.

DESPERATE! John didn't do anything of the sort...talk about trying to take advantage politically....McCain has sunk to another level if he is trying to claim credit for coming in for a couple of hours after the fundamentals of this bill were agreed on....he actually was a distraction for that time period. And this is coming from a man who acknowledges he is not an economic "expert" or novice for that matter.....the campaign is truly desperate. And for the "Obama the Terrorist" person? Grow up...you are truly desperate.

How about some mention of the Dems that pillaged Freddie-Fannie and helped bring on this crisis and in 01 when Pres.Bush pointed out there needed to be some oversight ,couldn't get passed congress same problem in 05 when McCain was cosponsor of a bill for oversight of Freddy-Fanny.Meanwhile Raines and Johnson were making millions while the books were being cooked.Johnson was also at failed Lehman Bros.Who are they Democrats, who were they advising,Nobama.But it's all Bush's and the Republicans fault

What about the bush family ties to Orlando Bosch and Jose Posada Carilles?

They are both wanted terrorists living free in Florida due to being pardoned
by Bush Sr. They bombed several targets INSIDE the US and an airliner in
Cuba.

Any talk about support of terrorists needs to include these facts.

Funny how Republicans love to say "don't worry about how we got here, lets figure out how to get out". Iraq war, economy... In this latest problem, they fail to recognize that Paulson helped create the problem in the first place with the subprime market while he was CEO of Goldman Sachs till 2006. Interesting that GS itself was short selling the very mortgages they were asking their investors to buy into thereby hedging their bets and becoming the only company to show a profit during a time when all others showed a loss. Interesting how that worked huh, he buys Sub prime mortgages which have clearly no value (44billion of them btw) then short sells thems for a profit and walks away with 550mil tax free!

So all Pelosi did was speak the truth and the Republicans decided to vote "no" because their feelings were hurt vs. thinking about the American public and what was right and prudent for us and the country!!! Grow up boys!!! Meanwhile, I didn't see any Democrats refusing to vote for the Bill because their "feelings were hurt" when the Republican from Michigan stated that this was a Bill reminiscent of the Bolchevick Party in 1917. If today's results don't convince people that we need a CHANGE in leadership (which is NOT McCain) then I truly fear for the success and prosperity of this country moving forward.

Someone needs to get "Obama the Terrorist" off this site. That is an inaccurate and inappropriate posting. Half of his posting are flat out lies and imagination. What an ignorant, paranoid person he must be.

If a speech by Speaker Pelosi really caused this outcome, than the people who used that as their reason for their no vote were pretty much looking for any reason.

>Thank you Pelosi, Obama and Reid for SINKING our 401k's, Pension Plans and >Life's Savings in the Stock Market.

Posted by PUMA September 29, 08 03:41

PUMA needs to learn about the market. Eventually this bill will pass and the market will shoot back to where it was before. Of course, when this happens, PUMA will keep his ignorant trap shut - unless he sings the praises of the Grand Old Perverts who caused the problem in the first place with their laissdez faire deregulation championed by John McCaincient.

Seriously - stay on topic. The article points out that Obama, Reid and Pelosi sank the bill that was if it were worth its weight in crap should have gotten passed with not problem. The sad point is that the Democrats own the both the House and the Senate. If they wanted the bill to go through, they didn't even need the Republicans...they own the majority in both sides of Congress and have a President waiting to sign anything they pass. The rub here is that the Democrats pulled a lame political stunt by trying to prop up Obama as the Messiah to lead the effort (which blew up) to get the bill through and couldn't and Pelosi torpedoed it in the final seconds. This bill was horrible from the begining - partisan or not.

McCain inserted politics into the negotiating table.

McCain has clearly shown what he means by "Country first".
When the campaign starts to tank, bring the entire US economy down with it!

McCain is a petty, lowly politician and nothing more.

I would never vote for Obama after hearing palosi,Reid frank and dodd the other day patting themselves on the back.

Rebulicans and especially Jonh McPain consistently lie about every single issue that faces the american people , Get MCBUSH and Sarah Pain out of our lives!

What most people are missing is that 40% of DEMOCRATS voted against the bill! Pelosi could have passed the bill without ONE Republican vote and couldn't even muster the votes needed FROM HER OWN PARTY!.

Keep blaming the Republicans, only those too stupid to do simple math could believe that.

Democrats are the majority party in congress, and there is no way you can spin that into a Republican majority.

America is doomed. We no longer hold people responsible for anything these days and government keeps getting bigger. Every empire has collapsed not by war but from greed and corruption.

Lest we forget, it was the Republicans who killed this bill last week, and it's the house republicans who are opposed to the bail-out in principle. Of course McCain is blaming the Democrats...this is just one more stunt in his desperate bid to fool the American people into voting for him.

Obama HAS said that he supports the plan, so long as it minimizes the impact on the taxpayer as much as is possible, and doesn't allow CEOs to get huge payoffs, which the current version of the Plan did. The Dems HAVE been working with the White House all along, it's the republicans that are playing chicken with the country's financial future for political gain.

Nothing Pelosi said was untrue. If the GOP didn't like it, and killed the bill out of spite, then they're putting the country at greater risk for their wounded pride...which is even worse than doing it for political gain.

We can NOT let them get away with it come election day.

Lets see. After Obama reached out to McCain to draft a unified position, McCain immediately got on the television. Politics as usual? At the president's meeting last week, Obama spoke first for the Democrats and outlined what he thought would be needed in the bill. McCain was silent until 40+ minutes in the meeting, then he signed on to the conservative Republican position. Leadership skills? And then the Republicans are so thin-skinned that when Pelosi states that the bill is needed, but it is due to the failed economic policies of the administration, they blame the failure on Obama? Why not recognize that Bush's credit card economics have taken a surplus, turned it into record defecits, and encouraged derulation and speculation.

Gee, we have had the Bush, the Supreme Court, and the Republicans willing to support any Veto by Bush over the previous eight years. Their "Leadership", has put the economy of the United States into a depression, not a recession. The Repugnicans, and their candidate, McBush, blames to whole mess upon a speech by a Congresswomen. Is that where the buck stops?

How about some mention of the Dems that pillaged Freddie-Fannie and helped bring on this crisis and in 01 when Pres.Bush pointed out there needed to be some oversight ,couldn't get passed congress same problem in 05 when McCain was cosponsor of a bill for oversight of Freddy-Fanny.Meanwhile Raines and Johnson were making millions while the books were being cooked.Johnson was also at failed Lehman Bros.Who are they Democrats, who were they advising,Nobama.But it's all Bush and the Republicans fault

So.. according to you guys, the Democrats are responsible for the way the Republicans voted? All I have to do to control a Republical congressman's mind is question W's judgement? No wonder you guys are a bunch of superstitious fanatics. You have rejected all logic.
BTW - If the press is ignoring Obama's "eleged ties to terrorism, " why aren't they reporting on McCaine's many extramarital affairs (including dating millionair Cindy while he was still married to his first wife)? And what about The bush administration shaking hands with the real terrorists - the Saudis.

My 401(k) is down but not becasue of Obama and McCain but because of greedy CEO's who now want to be saved. I emailed my congressman and said not to vote for this horrible bill that will not work and now we are in more trouble. We've seen a republican president and republican controlled congress do so much damage that it's time to see if a democratic president with a democratic controlled congress can do the job the right way. I was voted for and believed in republican values but not after the last 8 years under this horrible dude we call president bush. Sen. Obama has my vote and will do my best to sway others to vote the same way in this great state of Ohio, its what right for our country. God Bless American and Barack Obama.

Gee, we have had the Bush, the Supreme Court, and the Republicans willing to support any Veto by Bush over the previous eight years. Their "Leadership", has put the economy of the United States into a depression, not a recession. The Repugnicans, and their candidate, McBush, blames to whole mess upon a speech by a Congresswomen. Is that where the buck stops?

Mrs. Pelosi spoke the truth. We need to discontinue the practices that have been implemented throughout the current administration. Gambling is dangerous, and we must discontinue it. It's ridiculous that the Republicans would so unabashedly disregard the best interest of the public because of what one person said, whether it was Nancy Pelosi, or anyone else.

I'd rather vote for a dead Democrat than a live Republican (kind of like the John Ashcroft deal,) so I'm staggered to find myself flipping 180 degrees and agreeing with the far right. No bailout! What I haven't heard from anywhere is the suggestion that, since government took over Freddie and Fannie, why don't we take over the foreclosures? I'm dead tired of throwing good money after the Wall Street weasels and their predatory buddies. And every time I see a shot of those the high rollers wheeling and dealing on the floor of Wall Street, it makes me nauseous.

At 10:49 A.M. the Republicans had voted 65 For/133 Against and the Democrats had voted 140 For/95 Against according to the Los Angeles Times. At 11:36 A.M. the Times quotes "that the White House lobbiied Republicans right up until the vote, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to overcome Republican objections to the bailout" How can McCain claim that the Democrats are responsibly for this bailout failing???? Another example of political spin to alter reality!!!!!

Uh,, regardless of the rhetoric...

40% of Dems voted No
67% of Reps voted No

So what is up with the Republicans I wonder; on the phone selling short with their brokers no doubt.

2/3 of House Republicans voted against it. I thought McCain went there and cleaned it all up and put his fellow Republicans in line. THE DEMS WANTED THIS TO PASS, they always act for the people, and they knew this had to pass. Blame anyone who is greedy from either party you like, but McCain blaming the DEMS for the failure of the bailout plan is as crazy as his VP choice.

Finger pointing is useless at this juncture. Let's face it--both parties are playing partisan politics in an election year and meanwhile the markets are tumbling and it's moving worldwide. BOTH parties have made disparaging comments about the other and it's indicative of the partisanship we've seen for years now. Americans don't understand what is happening, but want a lynching as soon as possible. Imagine if both parties were willing to call a truce, put partisan politics aside, educate the American public about this meltdown and endeavor to pull us together and make the difficult choices that lie ahead. There's plenty of blame to go around, but now is not the time to engage in that type of rhetoric in either party.

Its ashamed, what happened to representing the people. Congress is a laughing stock. If we ran or house or business like congress runs the country we would be broke and in jail. The scary thing is it keeps getting worse. Its not one party it the whole bloody group its like a cancer.............This is dangerous, when I write my representatives in congress I get canned responces that don't even address the question asked.......The way they carry on they must think we are to stupid to know what's going on..........We need to get control!!!!

John McCain is utterly and completelly ridiculous.

It's Pelosi's fault because of a "partisan" speech? You've got to be kdding me. A vote is what decided the outcome of the bill (for today). A vote, I might add, that Republicans overwhelmingly voted down. They CHOSE to vote it down and to blame it on a speech by Pelosi doesn't speak too highly of Republican congresspeople. Are they that weak-willed?

This is a thinly veiled, poor excuse for a campaign attack that simply exposes McCain for the hypocrite he is. Use your heads people, don't just accept McCain's press release as the actual truth, let alone actual news.

McCain and the first three commentors are incredibly dishonest and desperate.
Most of us hope and pray that soon their really stupid poison won't matter.

This is rich - McCain can't get more than 1/3 of the Republicans to go along with the bill, and it's Obama's fault? After McCain was bragging this morning about how he put the coalition together? Puleeze.

Listen, if the Republicans in congress are such wusses that a "partisan speech" sends them to their nearest fainting couch, clutching their pearls, they really ought to get the hell out of Washington and let somebody with a little intestinal fortitude have their jobs.

look where the money leads and you will find out who is to blame....it does not matter rep or dem they will tell you what you want to hear and then if something goes wrong blame the other guy...McCain does not need the $ at this point and he certainly does not resort to cheap politics. It is as if our great nation is one of blamers whinners, are you telling me that these two guys are the best that this country has to offer?

Wait a minute - let me get this straight. Most Democrats voted FOR the bailout. Most Republicans -- by a 2:1 margin -- voted AGAINST it. So it's supposed to be the fault of the Democrats that the bill didn't pass?

I didn't realize that Nancy Pelosi was such a powerful orator that she could convince 130 Republicans to vote against a bill which both the White House and John McCain say they support.

Gee, we have had the Bush, the Supreme Court, and the Republicans willing to support any Veto by Bush over the previous eight years. Their "Leadership", has put the economy of the United States into a depression, not a recession. The Repugnicans, and their candidate, McBush, blames to whole mess upon a speech by a Congresswomen. Is that where the buck stops?

John McCain is a JOKE! He was against the Bill until he thought he could make some political points. Then he was for the Bill and was going to twist the arms of the Republicans in the House to get them to vote for the Bill. So, John... how did that arm twisting go?

Monday agaisnt bill... Tuesday for the Bill , Wednesday against the Bill as is.... Thursday suspending campaign (not really) to work on the Bill, oh and won't be able to debate for 90 minutes because the sky is falling. Friday... goes to Washington to handle the situation... doesn't say a word. Maybe because he never even read the Paulson plan. Stil Thurs... humiliated into debating. Panic and confusion best decribes how McCain handled this latest setback in our markets. Now it's Obama's fault.

Hahaha... Like I said before McCain is proving to be a bigger Joke than anyone could have ever imagined.

The vote against the measure was 228 to 205, with 133 Republicans joining 95 Democrats in opposition. The bill was backed by 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans.

Lets not forget that it was the Republicans who failed to pass the bill. In an effort to distance themselves from the current administration and hopes to have some traction and come out as "Heroes", they managed to take away any financial confidence that could have come from the bill and sink the equity markets.

Therefore if John is responsible for this, Congratulations on a terrible job and I am impresse that a man that says that it is time to put Country first managed to make the headlines in every newswire.

I blame John McCain for this and John McCain alone

If poloticians were required to take an IQ test, score at least above 80, before running for office, we would not have idiots like Pelosi, Reid, Waters, Boxer and on and on!!!

McCain is full of it! It is the malfeasance of the Bush administration and the GOP for the messed up economy.

McCain is a joke -- but a dangerous one.

No Republican should be re-elected simply on the grounds of their rabid support (including McCain's support) of the Bush administration.

Lets pretend to Make Oboma a white man and McCain a black man

Now whom are you going to vote for
Be honest with your self

Just to double check: the Republicans are claiming THEY didn't vote for the bill because of something the Democrats said, and are now blaming the Democrats for the bill not passing? No one else sees a problem with that...

Republicans vote 2 to 1 against the rescue bill and it's Obama's fault? How stupid do you think we are?

This is hearsay and speculation. All weekend it was the republicans who were refusing to pass the bill as it was. It's against the republican ideology to influence the "free" market. They are against "big government" which means being against governement intervention. I'm not understanding the logic here... why would republicans sink a bill because of bipartisan words from the speaker of the house? They still have to answer to their constituency and live with their decisions. Seriously, if you have republicans who will vote against a bill of historic importance because they were pissed off at the speaker of the house.. then THEY should be removed from office.

It's my opinion that we could point the finger at McCain at this point. He's making a campaign issue of how many times he's stood up against his own party... trashing Obama for not standing up against the democratic party. All repbulicans are standing up against Bush policies and republican bills because it's currently fashionable to be "mavericks" and not go along with your party.

McClum, you should do a little bit of more research before you publicly type up you opinions. Democrats are just as corrupt, the only difference is that republicans know shame, unlike Democrats. If republicans secrets are discovered, they resign. If a Democrat secret is discovered, they lie, steal, and flaunt BS until they are forcefully removed from office - Former Democrat Detroit mayor and his mother, a democrat senator. I always wondered how a democrat government employee could afford mansion, even when a high paying engineer could not.
I am voting for McCain, at least he won't lie to your face. He just loses his temper. BUT!!! At least I can trust the guy. Even though he doesn't know how to use a computer.

Everything you rely on for your daily existence is purchased with credit. The groceries lining the shelves at Stop and Shop, the antibiotcs at CVS your kid needs for an ear infection, the damned coffee some teenager is shoving at you through the Dunkin's drive-thru window. Everything.

Think about it.

"Political Intelligence." That oxy-moron says it all right there.

The vote tally was.....The vote against the measure was 228 to 205, with 133 Republicans joining 95 Democrats in opposition. The bill was backed by 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans.

Clearly the Republicans can't expect people to believe that the failure of the Bill falls solely on the shoulders of House Democrats. The numbers speak for themselves. Do you think people are stupid. Also...ask yourself why the Bill failed.

The REPUBLICANS in congress need to vote YES so that their mess of the last 8 years can be cleaned up.
This is an outrage that McCain is trying to blame Democrats for the failed legislation and for the failed policies of BUSH that got us into this mess. Literally every aspect of the executive branch has failed under Republican leadership. NOW YOU'VE GOT TO PAY TO CLEAN IT ALL UP.

Once again we see our "leaders" crying like two year olds to make a point thay they don't even understand. Didn't McCain say he did not know anything about the economy? Did McCain or even Obama consider that the american people are so fed up with lobbyists on both sides. I would be willing to bet that all weekend Wall Streets paid mercanaries were up on the hill making sure that for every dollar we pay them for their bad decisions, they don't have to lend it back to real people. For every dollar we give them above the real market value of the paper they don't have to modify a real persons loan. For every dollar we pay for their greedy mistakes they will find a way to pay the same executives who screwed us the first time around. The business suit in Washington might as well be a clown costume. At least that way they will look like they act.

Only a Republican could have the nerve to blame the Democrats for the failure of the bailout when 60% of the Republicans voted against it.
Also, if the Republicans voted against it to get back at Pelosi for insulting them , then they have put their politics ahead of their country, and that to me seems rather childish. Not defending Pelosi, but come on.. they all insult each other every day!

Why is everyone on this comment section blaming their least favorite democrat for this bill not passing. Approximately 70 percent of the Republican caucus did not vote for the bail out. The bill only failed by a mere dozen votes, so do the math!

Whats this country come to when the guy holding the smoking gun blames everyone else. Is the GOP the party of Lincoln or the party of OJ Simpson.

Stop blaming others and call your own representative.

The Bush administration has cried 'the sky is falling' once too many times. They allow a crisis to happen then steal from the US economy to fix it. Scammers all of them! I for one am happy congress is taking time to figure out which way is up. We will get a bail out package passed but hopefully those clowns that caused this havok will be punished if done right. What these executives did to this nation was worst than what resulted from 9-11. Who are the real terrorists? The terrosists within?

to #2: I am "we the people" and I'm voting for Barack Obama. Take your diatribe somewhere else, like, to Rush Limbaugh where it belongs. How do you expect us to take you seriously with a user name like "Obama the Terrorist?!" Seriously now.

Quoted by J
I suggest McCain look at WHO voted AGINST the bill - stupid !!! it was the republicans that defeated it. DUHHHHH!!!

40% of the Dem's voted against this bill. Dem's in control....DUHHHHHH!!!!!

PUMA, Obama is not a member of Congress.

If you read more closely, even if you assume that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was not in fact trying to motivate Democrats to vote YES on the bill, you cannot conclude that it is her responsibility, or that it is only partisan Democrats' responsibility, for the failure of this bill.

In order for a partisan speech to scare Republican Congressmen away from the bill, they too must also be guilty of political game-playing.

Finally, if you accept the fact that Pelosi was really trying to influence Democrats to vote YES, you are left only with the conclusion that the bill's failure is the responsibility of Republican Congressmen who didn't want to follow suit with a vast majority of American citizens in expressing dismay with the Bush administration.

Pelosi's voice grows ever more vociferous & shrill. The media runs with it's own left leaning agenda, and seems to me they're all out of touch with the average American. Gone are the days when the media printed truth & facts, not biased opinion disguised as truth.

The Democratic Party is unrecognizable in it's current form from that of Truman's time. This is the worst do-nothing Congress in history, and all because of partisan politics. Wake-up citizens, we're all getting screwed here.

OK, all you moonbats listen up! 95 Dumbocrats voted NO. Stop blaming republicans for your own party's stupidity.

Just look at the Republicans pointing the finger. If the bill had passed then of course it would have been McCain who waved his "magic" wand to make it all happen (despicable opportunistic politics). It's too bad we no longer have "tar and feathering" because McCain clearly deserves it. Just look at the numbers folks... 68% of House Republicans voted against versus 40% of House Democrats. Now we can sit home and watch our financial system, 401K’s, jobs, savings, and future dissolve into nothing… The American Dream is now officially a myth.

Democrats supporters are the worst, non of them get how economic policy works. This does not include foreign policy which is separate; war, russia, etc.

Republicans, you have sunk this country. Hope you are proud now.

Pelosi couldn't resist the opportunity to bash an outgoing President one last time. She thought it would make for a cutesy TV sound bite back home.

Pelosi blew it. She refused to turn this into a bipartisan solution to a crisis and let her big mouth get in the way.

So, this is the kind of leadership you are comfortable with to solve our problems?

My husband and I are changing our votes to Republican just to send a message to the Democratic leadership to shape up their act.

And guess what Massachusetts voters? MY vote in a battleground state will actually mean something. Yours doesn't.

Country First!

Pointing partisan fingers at the other guy to place blame just doesn't cut it anymore. There are 475 people [congress, senate, executive, and judiciary] to whom we have given all of the power and authority required to fix our problems. Instead of doing that, they spend their time taking perks and satisfying their own wants ahead of the 33 million other citizens of this country. Then they have the nerve to say, "it's the other party's fault we are in such a mess." The blame belongs to ALL of them. It's time we "hired/elected" people who will take responsibility and put our country first. If my employees performed the way these 475 people have performed I would fire all of them.

Am I missing something here, or is it the House REPUBLICANS who have defeated this bill. Obama has terrorist ties? Well this is one time that I side with the Republicans. We will all suffer, but it will be worth the cost of admission. Let the chips fall where they may. All you Haters out there, get a life! Would you sit still in a car that was heading for a wall just because your buddy driving? We will get together, or go down together. Welcome to the fate of the New Romans.......

I just want to know why the Boston Globe is posting the lies from this despicable person in post # 2. They have nothing to do with the article, and have been fact checked many times as untrue.

Barack Obama was five years old when the weathermen were doing their anti Viet-Nam war protests. The only people they killed then was themselves.

William Ayers was never charged or convicted of anything and is a professor at the University of Illinois , and has received many civic awards from the city of Chicago. Give it up. These smears will not work this time.

If anyone voted against this bill because their feelings were hurt by someone's speech, then they don't deserve the right to be a Congressional member. You really think that if voting for the bill was the right thing to do, they should be allowed to get away with punishing their fellow Americans because they didn't like what someone said? How childish...and such a breach of their oath and fiduciary responsibility. And, it was a lack of oversight, corporate greed and years of deregulation that sank your 401k - not Pelosi, Obama and Reid. By the way, corporate oversight is controlled by the Executive Branch.

I'd like to follow up on my previous comment. If you check the figures, the Republicans sank ithe bill. Just one more lie from McCain.

Whether you think it was Polosi's fault or not doesn't make much difference. The fact is Nancy bad mouths the US at every opportunity and is CLEARLY Al Quidas best friend .

Am I reading this correctly? The GOP voted against the bill just to stick it to Pelosi? That's not "country first."

70 % of Republicans voted AGAINST the Wall Street Bailout and 40% of Democrats voted AGAINST the Bailout for Bush's rich buddies. Some of you need to be more precise with facts, but oh yeah...that's what you guys do isn't it? Mislead and distort and lie about what is really going on. Bush will go down in history as the worst president ever!!!
The Oil companies have their best years ever with record hundred billion $ profits, the pharmaceuticals, tobacco, Wall Street Bankers follow suit. When it gets tough for them to continue to rape this country and pocket billions off the back of the working man, Bush tries to turn America into Socialism.

If you lost money today ask the democratic member of congress that you voted for , why this happened. Let them explain why you now have to work another 10-20 years ... And better yet ! Go vote for them again ! LOL ( I hear they have a PLAN )

The Republican party counts on the stupidity of many...unfortunately for them we are only so dumb. I'm having a hard time seeing how it's the Dems fault when it was the Repubs who voted it down. It's amazing they're blaming that big meanie Nancy Pelosi for making them change their votes. Republicans aren't the most graceful losers it seems. And sure blame greed, but also blame the deregulation of greed.

Why didn't the the Republicans vote on the merits of the bill instead of the tone of Pelosi's rhetoric? Because they have no integrity.

"Earlier in the week, when Senator McCain came back to Washington, there had been no deal reached. ... What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all the parties to the table, including the House Republicans." — Senior adviser Steve Schmidt, 9/28/08"

However, McCain couldn't deliver on his promises and the Republicans killed the Bill. Now the party of "personal responsibility" is blaming everyone else. Same old same old.

Nor is anyone impressed with psychotic rants about the SDS. Take a pill and go away.

If 66% of Republicans opposed the bailout and 40% (a smaller percentage for those who can't count) of Democrats opposed the bailout, then McCain's claim amounts to blaming the Democrats for not being even *more* supportive of propping up an economy than his own party, which catalyzed its ruin but can't be bothered to save it.

Stop the finger pointing, you big fat babies! From Pelosi, to McCain to the Dems to the Rebublican'ts. What good does crying about it do? If you blame a particular party, administration, or individual you are either too enamored of yourself and your own views, full of hatred for people who don't think like you, or downright ignorant. If you think it was one side that got us in, or can get us out of this mess...you're delusional. United We Stand? Yeah, right.

As my Mom used to say "I don't CARE who started it...clean up this mess, now!"

DanaH,
You're absolutely correct. The problem with Democrats is short term memory and short term thinking. In this case, I think the issue is still partisan finagling, but the Republicans are as much to blame as Democrats for our mess (starting with the Dems desire to make everyone happy instead of understanding basic economics and Rebubs obvious desire to make fat cats fatter. This screams of corruption from the top, and a top-down cleansing of the entire government is in order. Take lawyers out of the government and put REAL people in place: economists, environmentalists, blue-collar, white-collar and make this a REPRESENTATIVE government as it was conceived, not a socialist government.

It is unfortunate that McCann has to be so negitive in his campaign for President of The Unitied States of America, a country he has said he is proud of. Well Mr McCann rather than be so negitve please tell us in detail what your plan is to put our country on a stable growth oriented economy. Oh, and please call off your Dogs of bigotry and hatred. It will only go against you. I want to know who you are in this time of American crisis to resolve the crises not inflame us with hatred that devides us like President Bush has done.

The word of the law has to be interpreted by the letter and by the spirit. By saying "It's your fault but we'll go ahead and bail YOU out." Is not in good spirit. So what?

Well it means everything. Are the democrats going to point the finger at republicans? Are the republicans then in turn going to point the finger at wall street? Then Wall Street point the finger at the home owner and say "caveat emptor"?

Speaker Pelosi in a nutshell said "We will pass this through but it's your (REPUBLICANS) fault this happened. Put it on the record."

Thanks for the mud bitch. Well I would vote "No" to on principle.

Let me feel pain on principle and lick my own wounds and be proud of who I am.

Bi-Partisan means bi-partisan. Pelosi killed this bill.

My personal opinion: Good. Feel the pain now instead of later. 700 billion dollars just prolongs the inevitable. 700 billion dollars would allow me to refinance my house and save money BUT it's STILL worth a HECK OF A LOT LESS than it was when I bought it. Nothing but a contraction and healing of the fundamentals of the economy will fix that.

Feel those contractions? We are not even fully dilated yet! It'll be a few months before we even see the head of this bastard.

Republicans said..."No" That's unacceptable. Don't make this partisan.
Unfortunately Republicans had to say "NO" on the bill.

In September 2003, President Bush requested a new federal agency to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. It was rejected by Democrats.

Quote from Barney Frank( source: N.Y. Times titled "New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae"):

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''

Hmmm... who's at fault here?

Yo. GOP faithful. It was your President's bill. If he can't even get his own party to support him and rescue the American economy from the disaster wrought by his and John McCain's deregulation crusade, how can you possibly hold Barney and Speaker Pelosi responsible? The onus was on the Republican Party to deliver for their President. Can you blame Democrats and American citizens for being suspicious of this President and his party who say "Trust Me!"

I hope and expect obama will be above this level of "blame the other guy" politics. Both parties failed here and to act like it was just the democrats is ludicrous. After all, over 60% of dems voted for the bailout vs 30% of repubs. McCain is just proactively deflecting the beating he is bound to take for not delivering the house republicans as he claimed he did.

For the record, McCain never suspended his campaign to to claim that he did is a blatant lie.

The Republicans sank this bill and it had nothing to do with any partisan speech. They don't want to take responsibility for what IS their fault!!! They don't want to look like they are in any way connected to the worse fiscal blowup in the country's history when they authored it in the first place!! The truth HURTS but it does not change the fact that it is the truth! The previous 14 years of radical then rubber stamp congress and an administration that was more concerned with cutting taxes for the very people who ran the markets into the ground. Who taxed in an indirect way the people of this nation with the highest tax INCREASES in the history of the nation with TRILLION dollar excess spending (which do not fool yourself IS a TAX!). Are responsible for this mess and should take responsibility for their and their predecessors' action over the years. Regpublicans cannot run and hide and blame this one on anyone but themselves (though they will and are trying). Am I sure this bailout would have worked I’m not convinced and I guess we will not get to find out. But lets not try to make excuses its simple enough to just say I don’t like it and will not vote for it rather than trying to try some lame excuse of partisanship. What the Speaker said was nothing but the truth and it is part of the history of the lead up to this disaster. Personally I feel the administration tried to push this down Congress’ throat and tried to sale it to the people so they could say well we tried but it was the congress again. Well I do not feel that they came with a real proposal none with any real intent or plan (just give us 700 billion dollars and we’ll fix it RIGHT!).youyourself IS a TAX

First Pelosi, Reid & the democrats wanted to lose the war to put the GOP out of office; then Barney Frank & Chris Dodd decided to tank the economy by shoving affordable housing into Fannie Mae & refusing to reform it back in 2003, then demanding a bail out. The democrats got control of Congress because the GOP was corrupt. So we jumped from the frying pan into the fire...you all see the result.

Matthew the tax collector, so far your plan makes the most sense......

When a paramedic attends an accident victim, he does not worry about a broken ankle, when the victim has a severed artery -- he fixes the worst problem first and lets the docs follow up with the rest . . . What happened here? Our finance industry needed a transfusion of cash and that didn't happen because of pre-election grand-standing about executive compensation, regulatory oversight, George Bush, tax credits, and all the rest. For all those who are laying the blame on McCain or Obama, remember -- they are Senators, and the House shot this down. For those blaming the Republicans, even with Pelosi's partisan blubber, 40 percent of Democrats in the House also voted NO. Shame on both parties for not having the courage to take care of the country first.