OT - Thinking about the bailout vote


A little while ago, I had what seemed, to me, to be an interesting thought
about the bailout vote. The bill was defeated by 11 votes, so if any 12
people had changed their votes, it would have passed.

Twelve democrat members of Barney Frank's committee voted against the bill.

That causes me to ask, why did those people most directly involved with the
banking problem vote no?

I can only think of two reasons:
1. It was a bad bill and they knew it.
OR,
2. They voted for political reasons, with no concern for the merit of the
bill.

If the reason was political, was it to make Bush look bad and hurt McCain?
Were they putting politics ahead of country?

And, if they knew the bill was bad enough to vote against it, why aren't
they telling us what the problems were? Was that more politics?

Bruce




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