Friday, October 03, 2008

Politics at its worst

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the House floor taking credit for killing the first bailout bill and talking about how great the revised version is.

And the increase in federal insurance will just help the FDIC go bankrupt faster.

Pelosi also said the bill would begin to shape the financial stability of our country and the economic security of our people."

Really, Nancy? How, exactly, might it do that?

Rep. Ben Chandler repeated his no vote from Monday, as did Rep. Ed Whitfield and Rep. Geoff Davis. Rep. John Yarmuth flipped to the dark side, joining Rep. Hal Rogers and Rep. Ron Lewis.

Sen. Brett Guthrie, what say you?