Republicans are going to get the blame, and they're a bunch of crybabies....

[Red Dawn]

or, that's what one of the nation's top conservative columnists, and the also National Review, the nation's top Con magazine says.

David Brooks:

House Republicans led the way and will get most of the blame.

It has been interesting to watch them on their single-minded mission to destroy the Republican Party.

Not long ago, they led an anti-immigration crusade that drove away Hispanic support. Then, too, they listened to the loudest and angriest voices in their party, oblivious to the complicated anxieties that lurk in most American minds.

Now they have once again confused talk radio with reality. If this economy slides, they will go down in history as the Smoot-Hawleys of the 21st century. With this vote, they’ve taken responsibility for this economy, and they will be held accountable. The short-term blows will fall on John McCain, the long-term stress on the existence of the G.O.P. as we know it.

I’ve spoken with several House Republicans over the past few days and most admirably believe in free-market principles. What’s sad is that they still think it’s 1984. They still think the biggest threat comes from socialism and Walter Mondale liberalism. They seem not to have noticed how global capital flows have transformed our political economy....

The Congressional plan was nobody’s darling, but it was an effort to assert some authority. It was an effort to alter the psychology of the markets. People don’t trust the banks; the bankers don’t trust each other. It was an effort to address the crisis of authority in Washington. At least it might have stabilized the situation so fundamental reforms of the world’s financial architecture could be undertaken later.

But the 228 House members who voted no have exacerbated the global psychological free fall, and now we have a crisis of political authority on top of the crisis of financial authority.

The only thing now is to try again — to rescue the rescue

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30brooks.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

National Review calls Republicans a bunch of whiny crybabies for trying to blame Pelosi's speech for "forcing" them to vote no, on one of the most important bills they will ever vote for in their careers:

National Review:

After the legislation was defeated and only one-third of House Republicans backed the plan, John Boehner and Roy Blunt took to the microphones and indicated that Pelosi’s speech had been so alienating and offensive that a significant number of House Republicans changed their mind and voted against the bill.

Can they be serious? Do they realize how foolish and irresponsible they sound? On one of the most important votes they will ever cast, insisting “the speech made me do it” is lame and adolescent. The vote, after all, was on the legislation, not the speech. And to say that a dozen members of your caucus voted not out of principle but out of pique is a terrible indictment of them. I hope we learn the names of these delicate figures whose feelings were so bruised and abused.

I have been defending House Republicans for a week against friends who thought they were acting in an irresponsible fashion. I argued they were people with admirable free-market principles who were simply trying to improve legislation and have their voices heard, something to which they were certainly entitled. And I thought they made the bill better than it was. But yesterday’s vote, and the excuses that followed the vote, have made me reassess my judgment. Watching Boehner, Blunt, and Cantor blame the outcome on the Pelosi speech was an embarrassment.

We are in one of the most dispiriting moments I have ever witnessed in Washington, when political authority seems to be collapsing all around us. House Republicans have contributed to this, and it’s a shame.

The Corner on National Review Online

 

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David Brooks:

Favors same-sex marriage.
Says that the Republican party must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras.
Describes himself as being originally a liberal.

Nothing new here.

I especially enjoyed the National Review article:

I consider Nancy Pelosi to be one of the worst political figures of my lifetime: hyper-partisan, small-minded, and wrong on issue after issue. And I thought her speech on the House Floor yesterday — tearing into the president and Republicans when her job was to rally support for an economic rescue plan — was extremely unwise and irresponsible.

This was spot-on:

But the assertion by Republican leaders in the House that as many as a dozen of their members who were leaning toward voting for the legislation ended up voting against it because of Pelosi’s speech is extraordinary.

 

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Notably the author neglects to mention tht 96 house democrats voted against this bill also. Nancy Pelosi democrat house leader could not even convince 11 of them to come her way to pass this bill.

Nope, I am glad the republicans stood strong against this bill. 99 out of 100 Americans are against this bill too.

So let them blame Republicans--it just may backfire on the democrats who supported it.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

As a Republican I will gladly take the blame on this. Hell, my Democratic Representive just earned my vote for voting against it.

 

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Notably the author neglects to mention tht 96 house democrats voted against this bill also. Nancy Pelosi democrat house leader could not even convince 11 of them to come her way to pass this bill.

Nope, I am glad the republicans stood strong against this bill. 99 out of 100 Americans are against this bill too.

So let them blame Republicans--it just may backfire on the democrats who supported it.

what you and other Repubs fail to acknowledge is that Pelosi and the Dems delivered the agreed upon amount of votes. They went in with Nancy Pelosi telling the Repubs she could deliver between 135 - 140 votes and that they needed to bring the rest... she brought her votes... she did her job. that's the end of the story....

I think most rational people see this for what it is...the Repubs playing party politics with the worst financial crisis in modern history since the Depression.

way to go dummies.