Partisan Tantrum

by digby

The Republicans are saying that many of their members had promised to vote for the bill until they heard the Democrats being too mean in their speeches. It was inappropriate. So they voted against it at the last minute out of pique. Apparently they think this is some kind of excuse.( Of course that won’t last. The Republicans will ultimately spin this as an act of fiscal integrity.)

Amazing. Pelosi brought it to the floor with the promise that the Republicans would deliver and they didn’t. I swear to God, if there’s a way to get punk’d, the Democrats will find it.

Not that I care. It doesn’t break my heart that this bill didn’t pass. But the idea that the Dems put themselves out there and the Republican hypocrites stabbed them in the back is so predictable that it puts me to sleep thinking about it. They’ll never learn.

Update: Oh Jesus. Chris Matthews is out there calling the Republicans a “party of mavericks” as if that’s some kind of insult in this environment. Oy.

And MSNBC is buying the GOP line that Pelosi may have ruined the economy because she was a bitch on the floor. They’ve got some business reporter on there saying that by blaming Republicans for the mess the Democrats are to blame for all of this.

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