A Nation Party of Whiners
Unfuckingbelievable. Literally. If I hadn’t seen the video myself, I would’ve thought this was the left-wing spin machine blowing things out of proportion.
Yeah, I know C&L is on the left, but ignore the title and commentary and just watch the video.
Summary: House GOP leaders said that the bailout bill failed because of a “partisan speech” by Nancy Pelosi. Quoth John Boehner:
I do believe that we could have gotten there today had it not been for this partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House. … The speaker had to give a partisan voice that poisoned our conference
Roy Blunt:
We worked together well to try to come up with a compromise that could pass today, that the president could sign, that would do what needs to be done on the economy, but every time you’d turn on television or read an article about the press reports of what the other side was saying, it was all about how either Republicans were unpatriotic, were there too late, or whatever.
Mommy, they’re saying bad things about me in the papers! Make them stop!
Eric Cantor:
Right here is the reason, I believe, why this vote failed. This is speaker Pelosi’s speech
What do you think they served at their cheese-and-whine party? I’m guessing Waahmontillado.
The sooner these crybabies join the Federalist and Whig parties in the dustbin of American politics, the happier I’ll be. They can cry all the way to the bank if they like, but they’d better hurry before the bank collapses.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
It was the Repubs who voted it down, right? (That’s the report I heard, anyway). So their complaint amounts to: “It’s the Dems fault for not letting us have everything our own way!”
(We’re getting a similar whine up here from the Tories, complaining that the Opposition was obstructing the business of government, so we just had to call an election….)
September 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
AIUI, yes: the Democrats were pretty much for it, and the Republicans couldn’t muster up all the votes necessary for it to pass.
Maybe I’m misreading you, but I think you’re giving the Republicans too much credit. In the footage I saw, they really were complaining about Nancy Pelosi saying mean things about them. I stand by my accusation of whiny cry-baby-ness.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I don’t recall who the soundbite was from, but he said something along the lines of: they’d pulled the bail-out bill as much to the Right as they could, but the Dems wouldn’t budge any farther, so they had to vote it down. Hence, my interpretation.
Feel free to apply an appropriate discount to allow for my imprecise memory, and probably not paying full attention to the radio at the time.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Maybe some CRY-stal? WAAAH-maretto Sours? SAD-buca? PISS-ang amb-MOAN? Or just some straight-up Swedish bitters?
Oh man I need to lay off the coffee….
September 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
This isn’t about Barney Frank’s response? B. Frank was on top of that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/frank-because-somebody-hun130328.html
September 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Perky Skeptic:
What kind? SumAAAAAtran, or Jamaican BLUE Mountain?
September 30th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Greg:
Yeah, Frank had a great zinger, but for some reason I didn’t include it. Maybe I should have, but I was too busy getting my YHGtBFKM on at the GOoPers.