Comrade Speaker Pelosi allowed the Democrat House chairmen to vote against the bailout bill to cover their asses with their voters back home. Keep in mind that the citizenry does not like the bill by a 99 to 1 margin. The Republicans saw what Pelosi was trying to pull on them as the vote was being cast and many of them refused to allow her to stab them in the back like that and over a bad bill. Then after the vote failed the House Democrat leadership had the gonads to blame Republicans. Barney Frank, one of the main offenders who caused the mortgage crisis in the first place, led the charge. Never mind the fact that had the Democrat chairmen and a few regular Democrat members voted yes the bill would have passed. What a bunch of snakes Pelosi and her crew are.

The House members were also not happy to learn that the Senate, stand up bunch that they are, scheduled their vote a few days after the House vote, so that if the House passed the bill the Senators could gauge the voters' reaction and adjust their own votes accordingly.

The real scare to all of them is that 401k statements will be released generally a day or so before the national election. And you think the voters are pissed off now?