This wasn't about hurt feelings, it was about shifting blame because Republicans couldn't muster 80 votes. The GOP is in disarray, their leadership has absolutely no control over their members and so they try to shift the blame to distract from their lack of balls to stand up for the nation.
Vishnu bless Barney for being one of the few people in Congress with real stones.
THEN
John McCain took to the air in the early afternoon, before the vote, to take credit for passing it. This is awful news for McCain, because it shows one of two things: a) he's completely out of touch with his own party or b) he has no leverage within his own party to exert his will over them to aid in showing leadership in order to win an election.
The correct answer is c) BOTH.
The vote count was:
Democrat 145 YES - 95 NO
Republican: 65 YES - 133 NO
In a vote that was supposed to about 50-50, the bill would have passed with only 35% Republican participation and McCain/Bush/Boehner couldn't muster that. 12 more votes. That's all. 12.
So what, exactly, in Pelosi's speech proved so searingly partisan that it sent Republicans running away from the bailout bill? There are only a couple of clauses that seem remotely partisan. At one point, Pelosi claimed, fairly, that "Democrats insisted that legislation responding to this crisis must protect the American people and Main Street from the meltdown on Wall Street."
She also included some criticism of the current White House: "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."
But the only mention of "Republican" in her prepared remarks came in this line: "Over the past several days, we have worked with our Republican colleagues to fashion an alternative to the original plan of the Bush Administration."
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