BAILOUT BLUES
WATCH KY3 NEWS @ 10 REPORT HERE
(includes why Kenny Hulshof voted "no")
Our lede: This is a rare case where the public was able to quickly and directly influence their lawmakers. But this also shows just how little voters trust anybody in Washington.
Reaction from Springfield residents:
"The taxpayers should not have to pay that bailout of Wall Street. I think the people who made it the problem should have to pay it out," said Ruth Newton. "The things they have tried to sell us that have to be done right now and then they don't turn out to be right, so I don't believe what they tell us now."
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"It was just too iffy a thing, there was no guarantee that this was going to do much of anything," said Shirley Langford. "They tell you all those scary things that your 401s are going to disappear and all of that, I really wasn't quite trusting that was going to happen."
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"I was extremely disappointed in their behavior," said Bob Miller, a supporter of the bailout plan. "As a retired person, I have to watch where the investments are, and if the places where I've invested go south, I'm in deep, deep trouble. They all came up with egg on their face as far as I'm concerned."
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G.O.P. WHIP ROY BLUNT COMES UP WITH 10 FEWER VOTES THAN HE NEEDED
"This was one of those situations where nobody really wanted to do it on either side," Blunt said after the vote.
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REPUBLICANS BLAMED SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S SPEECH BEFORE THE VOTE
Blunt said he had 12 Republicans who would have voted for the bill but changed their minds.
Watch PELOSI's speech HERE.
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BUT REPUBLICANS DISPUTE THAT PELOSI WAS THE REASON
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the GOP leadership comments were untrue, asserting that House Republicans voted against the bill because of its contents. “We’re not babies who suck our thumbs,” Bachmann said at a press conference after the vote.
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ALSO . . The Associated Press paints the tense timetable behind the scenes . . .
About an hour before the vote was to begin, Blunt reported back to Boehner.
"We're going to have a tough time getting there," Blunt said, according to the GOP leader. Together, the two parties needed to change about a dozen minds.
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With the measure stalled, 12 votes shy of what was needed, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., came over to GOP leaders and extended six fingers as if to say: Give us six and we'll do the rest.
"They at a minimum had to get the momentum shifting the other way," he said later. "They didn't flip anybody."
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REPUBLICANS BLAMED SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S SPEECH BEFORE THE VOTE
Blunt said he had 12 Republicans who would have voted for the bill but changed their minds.
Watch PELOSI's speech HERE.
***
BUT REPUBLICANS DISPUTE THAT PELOSI WAS THE REASON
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the GOP leadership comments were untrue, asserting that House Republicans voted against the bill because of its contents. “We’re not babies who suck our thumbs,” Bachmann said at a press conference after the vote.
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ALSO . . The Associated Press paints the tense timetable behind the scenes . . .
About an hour before the vote was to begin, Blunt reported back to Boehner.
"We're going to have a tough time getting there," Blunt said, according to the GOP leader. Together, the two parties needed to change about a dozen minds.
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With the measure stalled, 12 votes shy of what was needed, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., came over to GOP leaders and extended six fingers as if to say: Give us six and we'll do the rest.
"They at a minimum had to get the momentum shifting the other way," he said later. "They didn't flip anybody."
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