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Analysis: A vote with unforeseen consequences?
This article is about all the pork included in the bail out to get congress to vote yes, but the excerpts I've quoted interested me more:
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WASHINGTON - Like the momentous 2002 decision authorizing the invasion of Iraq, Congress' vote on a $700 billion financial industry bailout figures to reverberate unpredictably, both for the economy and for the politicians vowing to protect it.
Which gives added emphasis to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's heartfelt summation: "We're in this moment, and if we fail to do the right thing, heaven help us."
On the dominant issue of the presidential campaign, the two major party candidates are in agreement. Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John McCain, R-Ariz., both flew back to the Capitol to vote for the measure.
Whatever side individual lawmakers come down on, there is little debate about the significance of the issue.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., a supporter of the bailout, said in remarks on the Senate floor that he was about to take "what is without question the most important vote and most challenging vote I've ever been asked to cast in 30 years as an elected official."
Not long later, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. said, "As the blood of our young men and women fall on foreign soil in the defense of freedom, our own government appears to be leading our country into the pit of socialism."
For its sweep, the rhetoric is reminiscent of the congressional debate in the days leading up to the vote authorizing the war in Iraq.Analysis: A vote with unforeseen consequences? - Yahoo! News
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We have seen this before. This bi-partisan push for an urgent measure for our safety and security.
I ain't buyin' it.  |
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