Re: Apparently you didn't hear Pelosi's speech. It was atrocious...
Actually, you assume wrong. I did hear the speech, and I thought it was very passionate, and clearly from a frustrated individual who has experienced first hand the dirty politics in Washington.
Of course, even I will admit that the speech was not appropriate at a time when you would have rather encouraged bipartisan cooperation, but you'd have to be a gullible fool to buy the republican spin on it - that the speech caused a few republicans to tilt the vote, and that it's all the democrat's fault. The fact is that 2/3rds of republicans voted nay, so it was stupid to bring the bill to a vote in the first place, since the votes weren't there.
It was a failure in strategy from the republicans supporting the bill, and also a failure from the democrats to be better aligned on getting full participation.
The problem was that the public did not support the vote - to a staggering count of 20 or 30 to 1. Politicians do not want their name assigned to a bill that is this unpopular. A better tactic to get it through would have been to make the details and reasons for the bill more public in the first place.
But that's in the past. Right now, I am infuriated that the politicians dare to take the week off for the holiday. I know if it were me and I had to skip Christmas or Easter, it would have been an easy decision for me to do so - and these are holidays I haven't missed in all the years of my life.
What's worse is that even non-Jewish congressmen are taking the week off, as if their holiday is more important than the impending doom of the economy. Now that's a crock.
I just hope that by the time they get back, they can get their act together. And that goes for both republicans and democrats.
