 n2sooners says: Yet all we here is how it is the republican's fault. How the minority party in the house is responsible for the failure of a bill pushed by the majority even though quite a few of the minority voted for the bill. Pelosi couldn't (or more likely, wouldn't) reign in her own troops in support of the bill, so how is it the republicans are to blame? Sure it was a bipartisan vote against the bill but the Democrats were able to get a majority of their party to vote for the bill. A nearly 2-1majority of the Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted for this bill. The Republicans voted overwhelmingly against this bill and shoulder the responsibility for the bills defeat. About 40% of the democrats voted against the bill. The way the house works, the majority runs the show, and this house has been especially good at excluding the minority (even though they promised the opposite). The majority party decides what bills make it to the floor, and the majority party can ram the bill through without any means for the minority party to stop them. If the democrats vote for the bill there is NOTHING the republicans could have done to stop it from passing. Yet even with republican help, the democrats couldn't pass this bill, and looking at those who voted against it, I don't even thing they tried. This is not the fault of the republicans in any way, shape, or form. It... |
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